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(this is going to be like looking at vacation pictures, but funner!)



I took the 38ft planter Travis made and dubbed it "Garden of Weedin"

Took me about 3hrs and the cost? Absolutely free! You cannot get that at a luxury hotel!

Travis laid down some more stones so we can BBQ once more...soon.. only 45 more stones to go! (Thats 4500lbs, but shhh... dont tell Trav)
We FINALLY got this one off our list. The living room painting is done (I keep saying that, but there are still windowsills, and the vaulted window area)
This is Cajun red.

Got this one off my list too! Now just to figure out the door situation. They came with 25lb 1978 original cupboard doors, that LOOK like panelling but are not.
*Shudder*
So now we have worked up an appetite, off to the garden, I plucked my first zuchinni!

BEST. MEAL. EVER!
I would work that hard EVERY day for this meal again.


We chopped up the Black Sea man that was the first big tomato to ripen. Ate it in salad with grilled chicken on Friday.
And we ate the first 2 cherry tomatoes

The usual Sunday picture...not alot of noticeable change. I do have 2 peppers growing but the plants remain small and unimpressive.

The beans are doing their thing...

The Great pumpkin is coming, the great pumpkin is coming!!

I have had a few visitors hang out recently...this one posed for me, where as the frog kept trying to get away. Pretty good detail if you click on the pic to make it full size
And then time for relaxing...My pedicure in Kawasaki green. Notice the awesome tan lines?

Tune in next week for Travis doing all the work himself while I go out of town with a girlfriend for a concert at the Gorge and a hotel with a swimming pool! Lets see if he takes any photos!

Another working weekend! Had to work hard Saturday in order to attend a wedding Sunday.. in the middle of the day.


Here is our patio.. Travis has broken his back removing the cinder blocks. Next up, Remove last 19 of the edge blocks, levelling the dirt, adding gravel and placing these 100lb stones. Trying to get it done before July 3rd when we have company coming!
Here is our child labor posing with there task ahead. They told there mom ":They are really nice, they bought us Gatorade!" Ha!

And after: they worked for 4hrs each and we ran out of room in yard waste and had to pile up the weeds. Meanwhile Travis and I weedwacked, mowed, raked, mowed, raked and pulled weeds too.

Here is the worst part of the wedding. Cute, comfy for heels, but still torturous.

And the BEST part of the wedding. The Kiss. The overcast day was too much for my camera from this angle.

More pics on the garden growth on next post!

PS--Would you all quit lurking and say something?

Dirty pictures

It is official! Things are truly growing. We ate the first fruits of our labor Sunday after planting the rest the garden in the rain... so cute! And tasty.

Tomatos, peas, spinach, mixed lettuce, flowers, hot peppers, bell peppers, chard, arugala, kale, zuchini, squash, cucumber, pumpkin--and a shout out to any of the vegetables I forgot!

What would YOU do with a 38ft planter box? I have some surprises in there--you will have to come see what happens! Special thank you to Travis for doing all the mind numbing chores like pacing back and forth 242 times with shovels of dirt! (and placing the stones and filling in the rocks and watering my seeds and mowing! Oh wait--not done yet--and raking and weed whacking!)

THIS is a weed garden. This is a weed garden on drugs. Any questions?
Intervention! This is after I spent 2 hours on it. Not much to look at and I have NO idea what I will do with it, except continue to pull weeds. Open to suggestions!