Sunday, May 23, 2010

It's All Done!!

We finished the garden last week after I spent 4 hours shoveling about 4 cubic yards of pea gravel around our garden boxes. It looks fantastic and it's so much fun watching all the plants poke their heads up through the soil!!

Pretty much all of our plants are showing their leaves and some of our tomato plants even have fruit on them.

With the leftover rock that we have we plan to finish our two french drain trenches and fill in some low spots in our other rock areas.

I'll keep posting more updates on our garden as the growing season progresses!!



Tuesday, May 11, 2010

More To-Do...

Thought I'd put a few more things down that we did recently:

√ Build a greenhouse for our tomatoes that is fabulous, adorable and WORKS!

√ Car maintenance - oil, oil filter, air filter changes on both Jeeps; wash Jeeps; air up the tires; fix the spare on my Jeep.

√ Enjoy the start of spring/summer in Seattle, spending time with my hubby, seeing all the spring blockbusters at our favorite theater - Village Roadshow Gold Class Cinema, making summer travel plans and getting ready to celebrate our 10 year anniversary in August!

Cheers!!

Monday, May 10, 2010

To-Do List

It's been a horribly long time since I posted anything to our lovely blog and I apologize to the people who are interested in the happenings of our life! Life has been a whirlwind the last month and a half so rather than writing several pages worth of "blogage", I'm going to share my "t0-do list" that I managed to accomplish (with my handsome hubby's & wonderful friends' help) over the last 6 weeks...

√ Answer the siren call of California and spend 4 gorgeous days with my best friend, Miss Bear. The weather was gorgeous, the activities refreshing and relaxing and the company supreme!


√ Complete gardening project - involved staking out the area, rototilling, putting down pavers, finishing out a flowerbed, laying down weed mesh, building the gardening boxes, buying/mixing/placing compost in all the boxes, planting the seeds and starts and put down pea gravel (last step to complete).


√ Clean the house - that's been done a few times I'm thankful to say!

√ Grocery shopping - also done a few times.

√ Laundry - Nick is very happy this has been done a few times.

√ Ironing - least favorite thing to do, finally done today.

√ Order garden pea gravel - delivered next Monday, soooo excited!

√ Attend first market Saturday at Redmond Farmer's Market - flowers, pie, mustard and asparagus!






√ Have coffee with Miss Jessalyn and adorable little Kolbi!

√ Get Jack a much needed haircut with Tia at Tia's Doggy Spa. Best dog grooming spot in Washington state!

√ Get out and do some cycling - tried a new trail, Snohomish Centennial Trail and my legs still hurt. Gorgeous scenery, uphill the whole way north, but all downhill on the way back! Much less crowded then our regular trail ride, wider and feels safer despite the few crazy road crossings between overlapping gates. We will definitely be riding on this trail again!

√ BLOG!! Hope everyone enjoyed all the updates!