New additions to our family
Yesterday Josh and I went to Petsmart and had a sample of our pond water analyzed. They said everything was in the …
First Day of Spring is Here.
Josh and I celebrated the first day of Spring by using our new pool and spa for the first time! The pool …
Happy Birthday, Mom!
Today is my Mom’s birthday! We wish her the best and happiest of days! 🙂 On Sunday we will get to see …
More planting
On Friday we planted our two plums and one apricot tree in one hole, and our three cherry trees in one …
Shadow is loving her catnip
I had to post a couple more pics of Shadow being so cute with her catnip. She seeks it out during the …
Sometimes nature sucks.
Since all of our vegetation has been gone in the yard, we haven’t seen too many of our creatures that we usually …
So cute!
Our best friends Steven and Susan sent us an email with this attached: LOL! We were wondering what Susan thought of that …
Rainy Days
Yesterday and today have been drizzly and rainy. Today we’re staying indoors all day and making a roast for dinner…perfect weather for …
We bought more vegetables and planted a bit today.
We had to go to Home Depot for some things today, and we ended up buying some veggies to plant, too! We …
We finally have a lawn again!
It’s wonderful to look out the window and see GREEN again! Our sod was put in today…we’re very glad that this construction …
Delivery
Our Armstrong plants arrived yesterday! I had called other nurseries to see if a Royal Lee cherry was available (they didn’t have …
Our Frog Pond
Ever since we bought our house and moved here we loved the yard but knew we wanted to do something to improve …
Josh planted tomatoes!
Today we went to Armstrong nursery and ordered most of our fruit trees! I had called them to see if they had the …
Recipe: Tuscan Chicken for Two
I just finished looking through my newest issue of Taste of Home magazine’s Simple & Delicious (March/April 2010), and there are many …
Dreaming of our new yard…
One of the many new, fun things we’re going to do with our new yard is to create an area for multiple …
Our garden shed is here!
Our garden shed has been delivered and assembled, and is ready and waiting for us to put our bird seed, potting soil, gardening …
Homemade Bread
This is one of the first loaves I made in our new breadmaker….cinnamon raisin bread! I’ve made a wheat loaf and a …
A new bird we’ve seen this year
We’ve been getting a new bird to our yard this winter – the Lawrence’s Goldfinch. Its only habitat is some of California and …