Getting the dust off

Well. It's that time of year. The time of year where I pretend to get the blog going again. This time I'm feeling like it should really happen though, since the baby will be arriving in a few weeks and folks are going to want to know about it. A blog seems like a pretty universal way to get the word out to everyone. That's the plan. We'll see if I stick to it. Thoughts?

How are you? It's been a while.

Yeah, yeah..I know. I keep saying I'll post pictures and it never happens. Well, you never come by to visit, so there. Everything at 21 West is much as it has been. Viola and I have been enjoying having our projects at completion, and are happily watching most of the grass and vegetables grow. We've been enjoying snacking on fresh snowpeas and kale, and are looking forward to eating some zucchini in a couple of weeks! We're so ahead of the curve it's not even funny.

We just celebrated my birthday last week and I got enough dangerous power tools to start a small woodshop, and I'm hard at work in the basement creating the first of what I hope will be a long series of wooden toys. Odd...I know, but I need a hobby and crafting stuff has always been appealing and rewarding. I'd say I'd try to post photos, but you and I both know that the likelyhood of that actually happening is slim. Maybe you should just come by and see it.

Check back later. I'll write more.

We crossed the finish line!

Hey, we did it! It was a busy memorial day weekend. We managed to get the fence cut down, gate door modified and new handle installed, fence posts capped, new mailbox installed and new shades hung. On top of all of this we finished planting the entire big garden (at Rockpoint) and our grass is coming up! As we're considering this our time for a little breathing room, I'm going to compile all of the work-in-progress photos we've taken and put together an album up on picassa. I'll post the link here when it's up. Hopefully within the next week or so. Stay tuned.

Finished?

The wood chips are gone! The lawn is seeded! We're at the home stretch!

Bringing you up to speed - the Shed

Here are some photos that show the progress of the shed. The first photo is what it looked like early last year. Note the hole in the side...

Here it is with the broken boards fixed and primed:

...and here it is after being fully repaired and re-painted.

I'll post more photos, I swear!

We're getting there! ALL of the perennial beds (three new, two replanted), the herb bed, and most of the shrubbery has been planted. We're still looking for homes for the lilacs and are in the process of trying to get rid of our mountain of mulch created when the stumps were ground down. While still not finished, progress is definitely visible. I'm going to be in the back yard cleaning up tonight for a little BBQ we're having, so I'll try to snap some photos of it to post. No promises, but I'll really try.

Oh, right! While you're waiting to see what it really looks like right now, here is a link to some photos of the tree removal that Ted shot.

Who took my trees?!

Wow! What a difference! The tree guys finally showed up yesterday and deforested us. It looks VERY different. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we have a long project list for the weekend. Shrub planting, herb replanting, perennial bed planting, grass seeding...like I said earlier: busy, busy, busy. I'll try to get some photos of the tree removal up soon.