We’ve Made Our Beds …
Posted by Rick & Sarah - 21/03/04 at 08:03:43 pm
After a long winter of doing indoor projects, it feels so good to get outside and dig in the dirt! Spring is here! It’s time to garden! Time to plant seeds, and pull weeds! Oh yeah, good old Mother Earth is gonna give up the goods, all we got to do is give her a stage for the performance.
Trouble is, the old stage had seen better days.
It is time for some new digs. A nicer place to raise our little urban vegetable crops. Time to celebrate the first days of spring by building new raised garden beds to replace the tired old rotting ones that we inherited when we bought the house. The old beds may have great soil in them, but the wood had seen better days.
With a little help from Sears, Home Despot, HGTV (natch), and Rick’s dad’s pickup, we are building two new garden beds and removing three old ones. We have pre-assembled all the parts for two identical beds, and we completed the first bed today. It is a lot of work, but it sure is fun too.
We’ve made our beds, now it’s time to grow stuff in them.
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Leader of the Pack? …
Posted by Sarah - 18/03/04 at 09:03:21 amWhen we bought our house, we did so for many reasons. We wanted to move to a more community-oriented neighborhood. We wanted to make a good investment. We wanted to personalize our living space. And, among other reasons, we also wanted to get a dog.
After spending the first eight months settling into our new home, we’re ready to add another member to our “pack,” specifically a Boston Terrier: smallish, athletic, friendly, and easy to groom. And after carefully researching local breeders, we think we’ve found a woman we like. (We can’t quite decide if it’s an added bonus, or just a random twist of fate, but she has puppies that were born on my birthday!)
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be studying our Boston books and training guides, and stocking up on supplies. In about six weeks, we’ll have an in-person visit with the breeder, and if all goes well, we’ll be able to pick up a pup in two months. Then, let the training begin! Whether we successfully train our puppy, or whether it has us wrapped around it’s paw, well…we’ll see who ends up as Top Dog.
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The First Porch Set of the Season! …
Posted by Rick - 01/03/04 at 08:03:11 pmThe weather was so nice this afternoon that we decide to take a risk and kick-off the porch settin’ season a little early. Well, earlier than last year, since we arrived in June—arguably prime porch settin’ season. However, before we could porch set proper we needed to do all our chores. But after we went grocery shopping, had our supper, put away the dishes, and grabbed us a few beers, we were gonna porch set! Besides, the house was kinda stinky. Not that it was our fault. The window fellers used some sort of stuff that stunk somethin’ awful. Honestly, the porch seemed kinda like the smart place to get away from all the fumes. But, once we were ready, I grabbed a porter, the wife got herself a Tecate—which she says is more like a “beer soda”—and we headed for the front door!
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