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Spring Gardening

June 18, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

On Memorial Day weekend, we planted our front garden. The onion grass had died down, but the mulberries had just started falling, which is late in the season for them. […]

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Spring Gardening

May 15, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

In anticipation of Cinco de Mayo and my birthday, we freshened up our front stoop flowers and garden with the help of our garden cat: First things first, bring out […]

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Garden Update: April

April 7, 2013by madisonsquare 2 Comments

The garden is starting to look more like it’s spring every day. No buds on the mulberry tree yet, but that’s ok- we can certainly wait for berry season… But […]

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Snow To Spring In 24 Hours

March 9, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Yesterday morning the garden looked like this: One of the only snows that stuck this year… You can tell it was a mild winter because the onion grass is already […]

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The Art Of The Powder Room

January 26, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Our powder room, like many rooms, still needed a few finishing touches… art, antiques and plants. The art: currently this cool old artifact given to us by the previous owner […]

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Now We Are Rolling

January 20, 2013by madisonsquare 2 Comments

Time to build our sliding door for the basement. We ripped down plywood to be the nailing rails, squared them to each other, and clamped them to a table to […]

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