MARIETTE'S BACK TO BASICS

Friday, March 8, 2013

While scanning old slides I came across this one from 1994, showing you Our Wood Trail.
Husband Pieter had dug the ditches and build this wooden walk way, all the way from the gazebo to the greenhouse. That was our first water control project to rid the property of some wet spots.

From here you are looking at the gazebo and the back of the house, towards the road.
We only could start with our gardening after we came home from our 3 years of working and living in Indonesia.
This was the beginning of our lush garden with cute wrens bird house on the tree.

Azalea Helen Curtis is blooming here

Same Wood Trail, 17 years later... The wrens bird house still on the tree.
This photo is taken in the opposite direction.
The ditches have been filled up with the dirt that came out of the basement when Pieter dug it out for building the Rose Suite.
That were 60 tons of dirt and it ended up on the side and in the ditches and on the back of our property near the creek. You can't even tell it was that much.

Do any of you have a walk way into the garden?

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{205 Winfield Road Then and Now} | previous post by me

Wow, I'm finally FREE again... after 3 days in Superior Court as one of 12 Jurors for a Criminal Case. I'd been summoned several times before, once by the District Court in Augusta, Georgia which is a two hour drive away from where we live. That was on April 25, 2005 and luckily I got out of it. We had booked our 3 free nights at the Cypress Gardens Hyatt hotel in Orlando, Florida and we did not like to miss that! Previously to that, I'd been summoned a few times here in Laurens County but never had to actually serve; neither has Pieter.
Monday it turned out that I was on, together with 11 others and 1 alternate. Very lengthy procedure and kind of hard to sit through without any window; neither in our juror room, nor the court room. But today we got to the deliberation of this criminal case and I performed as foreperson. We came to a unanimous decision for the verdict of the person being tried; being guilty on one of two counts. Glad it is over with!
Knowing the language is one thing but it is very hard to listen to all evidence, witnesses, audio and video in a language other than your mother tongue. Especially on subjects that are not your daily routine. But I did it and gained some experience for maybe future jury duty.

The pay for such Jury Duty is by law US $ 25.00 per day; that's IT.

Many bloggers also do have a FB (Facebook) Fan Page. Ever noticed that long string of numbers in your URL? Mine looked like this before: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mariettes-Back-to-Basics-LLC/344099510841
Let me show you how I did change it to: facebook.com/MariettesBacktoBasics
Yes, if you click on it or copy and paste this into your browser it takes you straight to my FB Page.
That would be very helpful in mentioning into an email or wherever you want to publish this. Looks neat and will be easy to remember and does not look spammy.
At first I noticed this short FB Fan Page URL in Avril's Royal Ribbon FB Fan Page: facebook.com/RoyalRibbons. We communicated via our LinkedIn accounts.
So I had to figure it out and like to share it here with you.
Log in to your regular FB account NOT your FB Fan Page!
In the browser put: facebook.com/username ←click it if you already are logged in.

Click on drop down box next to Pages...

Select the name of your Page or else type in your Page's name

Be careful as your username may be changed only once!

Click Confirm

From my previous posting I had the info below:

A 'Enter Desired Username' will popup on the right - see where MariettesBacktoBasicsLLC is typed inside.
Now very careful type inside THAT box the name YOU want to show directly behind facebook.com
DOUBLE check as it cannot be changed! Make sure you capitalize words as they will appear exactly like that in your new URL.

Good luck! Let me know if you managed to change your Fan Page.