…On Skyland Drive, in Ashford Park, in Atlanta

Hello you fellow pithecanthopes.  

Hey; The IP will be the first to tell you that blogs are intrinsically self-indulgent.  Yet today even The IP thinks he’s going a bit too far in that regard.  But if you stick with him here, he thinks you’ll at least be entertained.

Inside and Outside The IP

OK.  Let’s go out the back kitchen door and check on that bowling ball landscape.

That screen door was recently installed by The IP

The Kudzu monsters are growing out back…still a nice view

“Thank you” to the pithecanthopes that suggested “counter-sinking” the bowling balls.  This The IP did.  And, as you can see below, he added some vegetation (he also added a 5th bowling ball):

The plant is Liriope Muscari.  I bought them under the trade name “Cleopatra.”  The woman at the nursery must have known her shit because I’m already enamoured of these plants and they have a big rooting section on the Intarwebs. 

Above is one of The IP’s Liriopes with a small flower.  They eventually can have a significant number of blooms and the grow bigger but don’t spread.  They like almost any kind of soil and they grow in shade, sun, or both. 

Even The IP’s ride looks comfortable in this new neighborhood.

“WTF?” you say?  So did The IP when he saw this stupendous stump.  The previous tenent was keeping it as evidence for his claim…he claimed a tree fell on and crushed his pickup truck.  The IP can say he did see a crushed pickup truck when he first saw the place, so it probably happened.  One thing The IP can tell you is that he uprighted that stump last night all by himself.   Talk about your cool cocktail tables!!!

OK.  The IP will leave you with a glimpse of his “studio/office.” 

The place is coming together…slowly.