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The Hummingbird Cottage
Feb. 10th, 2025 02:10 pmAt the end of 2024, I mentioned that I had made an offer on a house, and then never followed up on this fact, so I thought I’d update you all on my progress.
So: I’ve bought a house! It has a hummingbird stained glass window, so I’ve named it the Hummingbird Cottage. Before I bought the Hummingbird Cottage, I already had two pieces of hummingbird art (a painting and a stained glass window hanging), and two friends have already given me hummingbird cards, and one is making me a Hummingbird Cottage cross-stitch with a ruby-throated hummingbird, and in short the entire decorating scheme may swiftly become “hummingbirds.”
Hummingbirds may also prove an organizing theme in the disposition of the flower parts of the garden, as I have acquired a book about native plants that has a special list of flowers attractive to hummingbirds. I very much like the scarlet cardinal flowers, but alas I don’t think the soil is wet enough, so I may have to fall back on other blooms.
Other garden plans: a little herb border, with chives and rosemary and basil and thyme. Cherry tomatoes. Raspberry canes or blueberry bushes or perhaps both. Compost, which I have mentally moved to the side of the house with no windows. Does anyone know any good resources for learning how to compost?
Before I get too deeply into gardening plans, however, I’m going to see what comes up in spring, as the previous owner was evidently an avid gardener. (I looked up her obituary, and discovered that she lived to be 101, and went on over 100 cruises in her lifetime.)
And right now it’s too cold for gardening anyway, so I’ve been at work on the inside. I’m not moving in till mid-March, so I’m trying to get as much done as possible before then. The past three days I spent painting with a rotating cast of friends, and now it is almost all painted (including a rich cranberry red tea nook) except the guest room may need a second coat of the soft misty blue-violet agapanthus.
Have moved in most of my books (which currently reside in the linen closets) and will shortly begin packing my lesser-used kitchen gear. I’ve also put out a general offer to take unwanted furniture off my friends’ hands, and have scored a daybed, a TV, a pair of end tables, and a china cabinet. Need to find some rugs to protect the carpeting from the cats. Also need to cut a cat door into the cupboard under the stairs so I can put the litterbox in there, as it is one of the only non-carpeted places in the house and I would very much prefer NOT to get litter all over the carpet...
Also very much need a nap, but alas, that will probably have to wait until sometime after the move.
So: I’ve bought a house! It has a hummingbird stained glass window, so I’ve named it the Hummingbird Cottage. Before I bought the Hummingbird Cottage, I already had two pieces of hummingbird art (a painting and a stained glass window hanging), and two friends have already given me hummingbird cards, and one is making me a Hummingbird Cottage cross-stitch with a ruby-throated hummingbird, and in short the entire decorating scheme may swiftly become “hummingbirds.”
Hummingbirds may also prove an organizing theme in the disposition of the flower parts of the garden, as I have acquired a book about native plants that has a special list of flowers attractive to hummingbirds. I very much like the scarlet cardinal flowers, but alas I don’t think the soil is wet enough, so I may have to fall back on other blooms.
Other garden plans: a little herb border, with chives and rosemary and basil and thyme. Cherry tomatoes. Raspberry canes or blueberry bushes or perhaps both. Compost, which I have mentally moved to the side of the house with no windows. Does anyone know any good resources for learning how to compost?
Before I get too deeply into gardening plans, however, I’m going to see what comes up in spring, as the previous owner was evidently an avid gardener. (I looked up her obituary, and discovered that she lived to be 101, and went on over 100 cruises in her lifetime.)
And right now it’s too cold for gardening anyway, so I’ve been at work on the inside. I’m not moving in till mid-March, so I’m trying to get as much done as possible before then. The past three days I spent painting with a rotating cast of friends, and now it is almost all painted (including a rich cranberry red tea nook) except the guest room may need a second coat of the soft misty blue-violet agapanthus.
Have moved in most of my books (which currently reside in the linen closets) and will shortly begin packing my lesser-used kitchen gear. I’ve also put out a general offer to take unwanted furniture off my friends’ hands, and have scored a daybed, a TV, a pair of end tables, and a china cabinet. Need to find some rugs to protect the carpeting from the cats. Also need to cut a cat door into the cupboard under the stairs so I can put the litterbox in there, as it is one of the only non-carpeted places in the house and I would very much prefer NOT to get litter all over the carpet...
Also very much need a nap, but alas, that will probably have to wait until sometime after the move.
