Showing posts with label house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house. Show all posts

Sunday, April 4, 2010

In Which We Spend All Our Money...plus a bonus house tour!

We've had an expensive (but exciting!) week at our Rock Star castle...

After our last yard sale lawnmover burst into flames (really), Kirk decided to get an electric mower.  I think it looks like a Little Tykes toddler car, but it's SO quiet and nice!


A major appliance purchace- our new washer and dryer!  I LOVE them- they're also very quiet.  I've never had a front loader before and I'm eager to see if they are really as awesome as I've heard.

Plus:  A tour of Jeremy's new house!  I recorded it THREE times- this one finally took after the first two were mysteriously deleted.  Check it:



Sunday, May 11, 2008

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day! Here's the garden pictures I've been promising!
We put down this stuff over our garden that we're calling a weed tarp. Over it, we put mulch, but here's a before picture. It looks like garbage bags, but is tougher than that. We hope it works- fighting the weeds last was the opposite of fun. This year we've planted tons of tomatoes, broccoli, eggplant, zucchini, rhubarb, and yellow squash. We also have several herbs in pots around the yard, including basil, thyme, mint, parsley, and chives.

We spent a good part of today putting down mulch. We were happy to have the Scion- with the seats folded down we were able to get all 18 bags of mulch in with no problem.


We repainted the bird houses that the previous owner left awhile ago, with leftover paint we had hanging around. A family of sparrows has already moved in. Revitalize the neighborhood, and they will come.



Our two big pots by the shed. One has cherry tomatoes in it, the other has my mint plant.
Flowers under our bedroom window. We put new mulch in this bed as well.
Our irises are doing well.


In our spare time, we finished repainting the office. The color on the left is the new color, "Seaside Blue" and the right side is the pinkish brown color we painted over. It looks really good.