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Paint the trim to match the windows so they aren’t screaming “I’m a new vinyl window!” Don’t paint/limewash/whatever over that pretty brick. It’s already made to look aged and interesting. Expand the foundation planting out further into the yard, add some curved lines to it (ask for help from folks here if you need ideas), put in some interesting plants. You have a pretty house with a lot of potential!

Pink, I hope your new plot works out well. You are generous. House sparrows: you might already know this, but you can put two boxes on a pole, back to back. That way row different species can nest on the sa,e pole duplex — bluebirds with tree swallows, for example. I would gulp and destroy the house sparrows. Ugly work, but there are fairly quick ways to dispatch them. Toss their bodies into the woods and something like an opossum or fox will have them for dinner. The house sparrows are destructive pests. The nest early, they not only attack nestlings, I’ve seen the lock onto a tree swallow and put it to the ground pecking at it fiercely. There are traps that can trap live house sparrows. Of course you must keep an eye on any trap so that no bird sufferers and you can release any desirable bird. Do not let the caught house sparrows free. They will just keep breeding, snack at fast food joints and destroy other desirable birds and nestlings. A person at a wildlife place showed me how to quickly and relatively humanely dispatch one of these destructive birds. He also was careful that I was not an over the top animal rights activist. I like animals, let snakes, spiders, wasps and bees be, but I do slap black flies and mosquitoes and don’t have pangs of guilt when destroying a deer tick or horse fly. You could find some flat stones and put your name on them in your new spot. Lugging water is a drag. A seventh generation dairy farmer I rented from had a garden 1/8 mile from her spigot. I was given a plot. She cautioned me not to water. Just leave the plants alone but for weeding and okay to sort of mulch w loosened loam. Keep it weeded. She said that then, without watering, the plants roots will grow deeper and unless there is a severe drought, the plant will be fine. I did this. Even my basil was lush, full and green. This was in western Massachusetts and the summers were quite hot. Have fun!

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