Garden – Blue House on Main ~ BHOM https://bluehouseonmain.com I love old houses! Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:43:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bluehouseonmain.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-beehive-1-32x32.png Garden – Blue House on Main ~ BHOM https://bluehouseonmain.com 32 32 Miracle on Main Street https://bluehouseonmain.com/miracle-on-main-street/ https://bluehouseonmain.com/miracle-on-main-street/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:36:20 +0000 https://bluehouseonmain.com/?p=2837 Read more...]]> 02/03/25

Today was pretty eventful around here…

Snow, snow, snow!

Oh no!

Corkscrew Willow caves under the weight 2025
Tree falls perfectly, causing the LEAST amount of damage

TIMELINE

  • Monday Feb. 3 — Power outage begins around noon
  • Basement starts to take on water (no electricity, no sump pump)
    (Some fool ran drainage from somewhere outdoors into the sump pump pit— which accelerates basement flooding when it’s storming and the power goes out!)
  • Snow piles up…Tree falls …Miracle happens around 2:00.
  • Power is restored around 5:00
  • The basement is okay. Water overflowed the sump pit, but not too much. It drained quickly when the power resumed.
  • Wednesday – Cold temperatures inhibit melting – storms aren’t over 
  • Saturday, Feb 8 – I venture out to look at my vintage patio table, formerly under the car canopy. ANOTHER MIRACLE—described below
  • Thursday, Feb 13 – Finally, temperatures are rising and rain is coming
  • Sat Feb 15 – Snow is just about gone; the tree crew came and the tree is gone and my old, old butterfly bushes are decimated. (photos below)

Corkscrew Willow caves under the pressure 2025
The root of it all
It fills the view

Yet another miracle

Today’s Saturday, February 8, and although the tree fell down on Monday and the canopy on Tuesday, I haven’t ventured out to see the full damage to the canopy until today.

I had backed my car out Monday night when snow got really thick and deep and I couldn’t remove it from the canopy. I think we had about 6 inches in one day— basically all day and into the night. The canopy was sagging under the weight of the heavy, wet snow.  The next morning, Tuesday, I went out there and was looking at it and I just did a little touch to see how much weight was on the canopy leg then I turned my back for a minute or so and it fell.

My vintage patio table and chairs had been under the canopy and I had prayed when I moved my car that they would be OK under there, even if it fell. Well, the canopy did fall but it missed the table. There was white paint on the edge of the table frame in two places where the metal supports scraped it and now the fallen canopy is sitting 2 inches away from the edge of the table. It’s amazing! 🙌

Canopy down
The carport canopy takes a dive & spares the table and chairs

Butterfly bushes—old and brittle, and the fence, too

BEFORE
AFTER

]]> https://bluehouseonmain.com/miracle-on-main-street/feed/ 3 Spring Scenes @ BHOM https://bluehouseonmain.com/spring-scenes-bhom/ https://bluehouseonmain.com/spring-scenes-bhom/#comments Wed, 22 May 2024 20:12:59 +0000 https://bluehouseonmain.com/?p=2402 Read more...]]> The roses riot in May around here.
Look! The house nearly blends into the clear blue sky.
I wonder if they thought of that
when they painted the house this particular blue…

I think it was originally white…with forest green trim.
But the house next door is white, with blue trim.
They must have thought
That just won’t do …
So let’s go ahead and paint it blue!

Sky blue!
New wreath for Spring
A closer look at rosy wreath
Red roses busting out all over
Deep Purple Irises
Vintage Rhododendron
Grandiflora?
The rose show out my LR window
My Patriotic Porch
Vintage wire fence & house next door
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