{Our Double Orange Daylily or Hemerocallis}

On July 28, a dear blogger friend, Suzi from The Smart Cat, did post about Good and Bad... When scrolling down, past her hippo, you will find her double orange dailily. As a reply to the comment that I left her she stated that she would love to see Our Double Orange Dailily or Hemerocallis. In keeping that promise, here it is:

These beauties are a gift as they just showed up on our property.

Birds? Who knows...

They show large raindrops in this photo, taken on June 17 by husband Pieter after he just had buried our Sacha-girl...

Maybe those were tears from heaven?

Lots of raindrops and lots of weeds too.

No chance this year for tidying our garden.

The hose on the ground has not been used at all this summer.

Just the other day when Pieter went to work on the bridge, near the road, he noticed some sloppy mess near our electric pump. Something orange sticking out... When he went to check it out he noticed that his heavy duty 100 ft extension cord had been cut off and stolen! Since there was absolutely no use for running the pump to water the plants with all our torrential rains, he had not noticed it before.

Nice people that trespass one's property for stealing things!

They might cash in on all the copper that is inside for getting cash in order to buy some more dope...

Related links:

{Daylily Stella D'Oro} | previous post by me

{Daylily Hemerocallis WHITE TUXEDO + SAD Feline & Canine Love Story} | previous post by me

{Daylily White Tuxedo} | previous post by me

{Our Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing Being Installed}

As promised on July 10, here is the follow up story for our Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roofing in Aged Copper, being installed. Yes, our Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing is finally being put on. In my previous post you also can read more about how to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, now and for a lifetime. So that's what we did when having this Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing put on. Interlock® Slate Roofing is also an Energy Star® Partner. 

This is in French: Interlock Systèm de Toiture à Vie...

Interlock Roofing Lifetime Roofing Systems

First they went ahead and placed this RoofTopGuard, a High Performance Roofing Underlayment on our roof. 

This breathable product is made in Finland

This Roofing Underlayment went all the way on top of our old Asphalt Shingles so there was no waste and it will add even more to the insulation of our home.

These photos I've taken with my iPhone on May 6, at 8:22 PM in the evening after the hard working crew of three, finished for the day. 

One of our felines is checking underneath the ladder... This might be our Sacha-girl, the one that got killed by a car on June 17...

Already part of the new Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing in Aged Copper being installed here. 

Do you know anyone who has used this product on their roof?

The light in the front porch already had come on...

We were so lucky for having had no rain for the time they worked! It got postponed due to bad weather earlier.

The crew from Interlock Metal Roofing were so courteous. Never noisy, never hollering or loud mouthed as we often could hear when in our neighborhood they had roofers working on a home. Each evening they would gather all the trash from the empty boxes and clean up very neatly.

Even our felines were impressed by the courtesy of our roofers!

To the left you can see our Sacha-girl... and to the right is her adopted younger sister Spicy.

See how dirty the home still looks here... Pressure wash came after the roof got installed.

This is next day, late afternoon when they were working on the side of our home. See how they make those loops in that rope for climbing and holding on to? A box with Aluminum Slates on the roof top for working with. It is a physical job for carrying these materials all up the ladder.

Heavy over cast but that was good for those workers!

Strange sight for having this High Performance Roofing Underlayment from Finland on our roof...

This is the bay window area of our kitchen.

The material sure is slinking hard on those pallets that we received as a big freight just before we left for Curaçao...

Here you can still see the wooden balusters on the balcony...

The left part of the roof is being done already, to the right you see the bare Roofing Underlayment still waiting for receiving its Aluminum Slates.

To be continued...

Related links:
Never Re-Roof Again | link with full info, scroll down for reading more
Interlock Roofing | Manufacturer of Lifetime Roofing Systems. Never re-roof again
{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived} | previous post by me
{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me showing the BEFORE
{Fighting the Water + Scanning Slides} | previous post by me showing the results of gutters running over...

{Crocosmia}

On July 10, we could rescue some beautiful Crocosmia flowers from the rain. They were almost flat on the ground... but still pretty enough for filling a vase. Let me show them to you.

Here they are on the new Durango Ambra, Cerdomus GREEN Tiles from Italy, on top of our balcony.

The weather is rather dark  with all our rain for the last weeks on end.

Our grass has never looked that green.

Behind our pond you cannot even walk, so soggy and also near the creek...

Ah, a bit of sunshine, it looks brighter now!

The name Crocosmia comes from the Greek words for saffron (krokos) and smell (osme).

They are from the Iris family, native to the Cape area in South Africa.

Looking lovely in this plain Baccarat crystal vase.

There are so many varieties of Crocosmia that it is very hard to tell what exactly these are.

This is a closeup that I took on my desk in the office... 

Don't you love this beauty?

This one is taken on the window sill of our office where there was more light.

They look beautiful with so much detail...

Again, shown inside the vase on my desk.

Surprise! One looked quite different...

Do you have any Crocosmia flowers?

Related links:

{Our Cerdomus Italian GREEN Tiles} | previous post by me about our new tiles on balcony
Crocosmia | Info