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April 15, 2016

Moyaone Reserve Homes Tour on April 30

We live in an incredible neighborhood. When we stumbled upon the Moyaone, nearly three years ago now, we immediately fell in love with its modern architecture tucked quietly away in beautiful, tranquil woods—and just outside Washington, DC, would you believe it? We weren’t planning to buy a house at the time, but we kept coming…

March 18, 2016

Spring cleaning in the garden

We finally made it over to our plot in the community garden. We were greeted by So Many weeds. Here’s our plot, between the pink lines: Oof. It was an exercise to pull all those weeds; they had put down some roots. In the end we managed to get most of it out and covered…

February 24, 2016

A look back at 2015, part III: small upgrades inside

Preamble: 2015 was a busy year. I didn’t write much here—being busy and all—but I swear: we worked on the house. In fact, when I started to write this “2015 year-end review,” I quickly realized that 1) I had way too much ground to cover, and 2) nobody would ever want to read it all…

February 5, 2016

A look back at 2015, part II: outdoor projects

January 24, 2016

A look back at 2015, part I: planting adventures

January 5, 2016

The post you’ve all been waiting for (right??): the kitchen reveal

Last March we started on our “kitchen refresh.” Here’s the last post I wrote about it. (Definitely read it for the gross “before” photos.) Last we talked, the kitchen was a wreck. And then I left you hanging!! We did not stop working—in fact we’ve kept up a spate of house projects over the past…

May 1, 2015

It’s morel season in the Moyaone Reserve

Morels harvested from our yard: A dozen this day, a dozen that day…. Sliced onto a homemade sourdough crust, with some green onions and oregano from the garden, shaved parmesan, and a heavy hand on the garlic, olive oil, and salt, they make a really good pizza.

April 2, 2015

The honeybees have arrived

Resisting a “landing” pun… I took a beekeeping course last month through Azure B in Marbury MD. It consisted of two 3-hour long, classroom-based, classes and one apiary-based demonstration. After the demo we could pick up any bee packages we had ordered. I had ordered two packages of bees. (I also ordered my hives from…

March 26, 2015

The kitchen’s all torn up (but even so I think it looks better)

This is going to be a LONG post because a lot has happened in the past two weeks. Pour yourself a drink…. The background: Immediately after moving in we tore down the ceiling cabinets on the right side of the kitchen, the ones that awkwardly divided the kitchen and dining room. I wrote about it…

February 8, 2015

Goals for 2015

It’s been a year since we moved in to our house in the Moyaone, and what I should really do right about now is to write a post reflecting back on what we’ve accomplished in that time, but since I’m writing this outside on a BEAUTIFUL fake spring day, I’m more in the mood to…