Step Right Up!!!

The gazebo now has steps. The gazebo now has grass all around. The gazebo now has a pebbly path.

After you left yesterday I put in the steps. Tessie immediately started testing them. They work. Spike watched her running up and down like a crazy woman. Zar thought that "discretion was the better part of valor" and left after the third run. I think that she scared him. I haven't seen him since.

I got her calmed down I added sides to the steps and then started in on the ground around the gazebo. I marked off the part where the gazebo would sit and smeared white glue where I wanted the grass. I used green foam core. That way if I missed any spots with the glue and ground cover it wouldn't show through. I used Woodland Scenics dark green ground cover. After I had that covered, I marked where the path would go and repeated the process with the white glue and this time, Railroad ballast from Woodland Scenics. The bushes are lichen and the ferns and purple flowers are taken from artificial flowers. The little yellow ones are quilled.

When I finished that, Tessie got on her hands and knees and painted roses on the fronts of the steps. The gazebo itself is basically finished. Now all I have to do it decorate the interior. I think that I will save that part for later. Tessie has made me tired just watching her run up and down the stairs. I am going to go sit down and work on the rug that will go in the center of the floor now.

See you for the tea party tomorrow. You're invited!