Has it been that long?

Here's an overdue quick update on GRK. We have tons of new neighbors. The hood is filling up quick. We became friends with a couple, Allison and Zach. See... that's their house, photo taken from our deck.

The cool part is that they're also a Leo couple. Allison and I share the same birthday :) Zach and Tyler are 1 day apart.  No wonder we clicked immediately. She also started at the same yoga studio I attend. In other updates...
Hubster and I went to Home Depot a couple of months ago and scored a Fiddle Leaf Fig tree for HALF the price I got my first one. The plant on the floor is a Zamioculcus, aka ZZ plant. Supposedly they are indestructible. So it's a great plant for those who think they do not have a green thumb!

 

John Meyer is doing quite well. 5 fruits and a lot of new foliage. Right now they are in the ripening process.

  

I  picked up a Key Lime tree at a nursery about 15 miles out. I'm not so stoked about the tree. It seems very frail and not as hearty as when I bought my Meyer Lemon tree. I should've waited but I get so antsy and impatient sometimes. I guess I'll see how a year goes with this one. I don't even have a named picked out. Bleh.

 

At the same garden nursery,  I got a heavily desired Staghorn Fern. The owner gave me a few insider tips/tricks on how to mount it instead of using fishing wire. 

 

We ordered a storm door for the front door. That should be arriving and installed sometime in early October. Had to get a couple of things cleared with the HOA first. 

 

Tree Fort

 

 

We planted more evergreens (Leyland Cypress) since our neighborhood is growing and we want to keep our future neighbor across the way from being too nosy when have our garage open and while we're in hanging around in our driveway.

Borderline country

This is a cow rescue farm down the street from my house. From what I heard they are not for eats. I buy eggs from another farm across the street from me.

Let there be light!

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Since we moved here (6 months ago) the lamp post across our street has never turned on. EVER. At night it's really dark across that way so I don't walk our dogs in that direction. We finally sent our HOA a list of To-Do's and the utility people finally popped in to install wires. I hope these are for that lamp post. *crossing fingers* This will also save us on our electric bill since we won't be turning on our driveway lights as much anymore, even though we use CFL lights.