Lately Annie has two phrases that we love to hear. First, when there is a quiet moments, she will say, "Mom, I love you." I will return the phrase. Now, it's turned into, "Mom, I love you all the way to heaven and back!" We once played the game of who loves who more, so now she just goes straight to the big guns!
She also needs a hug each time she gets a kiss. Can't have one without the other!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Backyard fun
I finally took some pictures of our backyard. We haven't been playing out there much the last few weeks because Andy is trying to grow grass again. He has until the end of the summer to get fescue in nice and full before we overseed with something else! Here is the fabulous sandbox he built. The lid is superduper tight - and heavy! I can only open it halfway unless we have someone come over to play and open it all the way.
Here's our firepit! One of my true loves in life is smores! My sister has a fire pit in her backyard in Utah and I have coveted it! We had some leftover bricks from doing the front, so Andy made me a pit!
These are our garden boxes. We have been learning a lot through the growing process! Didn't realize the value of miracle-grow until a month too late! Our vine plants (cucumbers, cantalope, watermelon, squash, etc) aren't doing very well. I don't know if it's because I planted them from seeds and just waited too long or what. But, we have two boxes. One is 12 ft x 6 ft x 12 inches. The other is 16 ft x 6 ft x 12 inches. We covered them with black tarp to keep the weeds out and that has worked fabulously! Andy made me a drip system attached to the sprinklers that can be removed to till the dirt for fall planting. Each plant has it's own line, except for the small area we tried for carrots and peas...
For some reason our pepper plants didn't grow very tall, but this one has a lot of promise!
The tomato plants are all doing well, except the cherry one. This one also has the most promise.
I was looking around for bugs this afternoon and realized the plant I thought was a pepper plant is acutally a green bean plant! So, we pulled these four green beans off and each had one for dinner. They were amazing!
Here's the big view from the patio. We just need the grass to fill in a little bit, add a new fence and it will be perfect. Of course, by that time we will probably move and leave our beautiful hard work for someone else's enjoyment. Isn't that the way it typically works? This weekend we are planning to work inside on the crown-molding project that was purchased last fall and is still waiting in the garage! Yippee!!!
Here's our firepit! One of my true loves in life is smores! My sister has a fire pit in her backyard in Utah and I have coveted it! We had some leftover bricks from doing the front, so Andy made me a pit!
These are our garden boxes. We have been learning a lot through the growing process! Didn't realize the value of miracle-grow until a month too late! Our vine plants (cucumbers, cantalope, watermelon, squash, etc) aren't doing very well. I don't know if it's because I planted them from seeds and just waited too long or what. But, we have two boxes. One is 12 ft x 6 ft x 12 inches. The other is 16 ft x 6 ft x 12 inches. We covered them with black tarp to keep the weeds out and that has worked fabulously! Andy made me a drip system attached to the sprinklers that can be removed to till the dirt for fall planting. Each plant has it's own line, except for the small area we tried for carrots and peas...
For some reason our pepper plants didn't grow very tall, but this one has a lot of promise!
The tomato plants are all doing well, except the cherry one. This one also has the most promise.
I was looking around for bugs this afternoon and realized the plant I thought was a pepper plant is acutally a green bean plant! So, we pulled these four green beans off and each had one for dinner. They were amazing!
Here's the big view from the patio. We just need the grass to fill in a little bit, add a new fence and it will be perfect. Of course, by that time we will probably move and leave our beautiful hard work for someone else's enjoyment. Isn't that the way it typically works? This weekend we are planning to work inside on the crown-molding project that was purchased last fall and is still waiting in the garage! Yippee!!!
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