Hubby and I are starting to feel old. We know we’re not, but we’re approaching thirty and our 10 year class reunions from high school are coming up…and it makes you just want to stop counting birthdays. I have recently said I’m just going to age until 25 or 30, then go back down to […]

Working on the vegetable garden this weekend made us really want plan out our garden for this summer. But one thing bothered us. Having never really had the space available to actually grow enough vegetables to supplement us with our own stuff during the growing season we have no idea how much space each vegetable […]

The major project for this weekend was to begin taking down the plants on the back of the barn. The plant cover was a few feet thick, and growing under the roof already. It hasn’t been trimmed back in the last year and the ivy vines where incredibly agressive. The picture below is a shot […]

Unfortunately we didn’t have much help weatherwise yesterday and today it’s even worse. It had cooled down significantly and we had misting rain and wind yesterday. Not terrible, but not really pleasent either. We still managed a few projects around the garden, the most pressing of which was taking out the dying peach tree. We […]

Well, it is now 20 minutes past noon and we are still waiting for the bio container. They said it would be there before noon, but I guess they are once again delayed. Yesterday we surveyed the situation in our backyard and we really have our work cut out for us. The weather is supposed […]