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My Community Garden Plot has begun!

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My Community Garden plot is finally ready for her little seedlings. I’ve worked the soil, I’ve added organic cow manure. I’ve added organic chicken manure. I even have a lead on organic rabbit manure! I’ve added compost, I’ve shifted the soil to get out anything that’s not organic.  And all this is a raised bed 8×4!  I’ve also been inspired enough to start working my own front yard here @ Mermaid Manor.   I decided I had enough space here and enough sunshine here to add another mini vegetable and herb garden.

I bought my seedlings at a little store in Downtown Savannah that I’m sure has beeen selling plants and seeds for decades.. On the corner of Victory Drive and Bull Street, Tywala and her father have been helping out experenced and new gardeners for a long , long time.  She helped me out tremedously and was as excited as I was about my two new little gardens!

These pictures are of my seedlings as well as the outside of the shop.  I came home on Saturday and planted them right away and fortunately it rained both Saturday and Sunday so my little plants are off to a GREAT start!

The owner of the shop happy to be working with gardeners all day long!

All these little seedlings just waiting for their new homes!

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Look at this great fun New Art @ Seaside Sisters!

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Who doesn’t want a picture of a Golden Retriever surfing hanging in your beach cottage! Or a piece of Pirate Art!

This handpainted art is from a North Carolina artist from the Outer Barnks who creates original art on pieces of wood.  The art is fun, cheerful and best of all, under $100!  We have mermaids, seaturtles and yes- pirates and dogs.   Everything fun and quirky beach art should be!  This is the fun for me to be part of Seasisde Sisters– to be able to support regional artists and to spread the joy of art- affordably!

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what’s happening in my Tybee World

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I”ve found that now that we are in season , I am very busy just handling the day to day business of working with our potential guests and our existing guests making sure they are all set and going to have the best possible Mermaid Cottage Experience they can.   We have a great team, but this still is my business and each and every one of my guests are indeed just that- guests to my homes. Doesn’t matter if the homes have different owners, you all are coming to MY homes in my mind! Crazy I know, but it’s how I think.  Example- we have the most delightful repeat guests flying over from Ireland to visit their son, grandkids and one of their 6 Daughters who are in the States.   We all know what happened in Iceland ( though I truly hadn’t turned TV on since last Thursday and was shocked when someone said at the Savannah Breast Cancer walk on Saturday about the Volcano!) and this has of course affected travel.

Mr. Coogan picks up the phone and calls me regularly from Ireland ( doesn’t that just fascinate you!  Your cell phone rings and it’s someone calling you from half a world away!) with updates- seems the volcano is still so un predictable they don’t know when they will be arriving!  Good thing his daughter is here from Boston and enjoying Tybee Daze!   We’re keeping our fingers crossed they’ll be here on Tybee safe and sound soon.

My long winded point to this is that I am so busy right now I’m not able to Blog on a daily basis like I so enjoy.  However I have found a work around!   If you notice on the right side of the blog- there is my Twitter updates.   Twitter must have been custom made for ADD Adults like me that love the 140 character limit so you can get your thoughts out short and sweet.  I am “tweeting” at least once a day on quick updates on Tybee, what’s happening- using this for all sorts of reasons.  So even if the Blog has a week old post- I still have a tweet that is brand new and current.

Another way to stay in touch with us is via our Mermaid Cottages Facebook page.  If you’re on Facebook  you can go to Mermaid Cottages and “friend” Mermaid Cottages.  Unlike other businesses on Facebook, I have “friends” not “fans”.  Friends seem so much friendlier!

I’ll keep on Blogging but if you need your daily Tybee Fix, please read the tweets on my blog ( or follow me on Twitter under Mermaid Cottages ) and visit us on Facebook.

Enjoy these beautiful pictures- I took these with my little blackberry camera in my phone- this is the front of Mermaid Manor.  Aren’t these flowers just wonderful!

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