Home Sweet Home

Since I remembered, since it was a nice out and since the yard was picked up . . . I decided to take pictures of what work we've [had] done this summer.

You've seen the Project Revealed, but we've done a little landscaping. Mostly free stuff/gifts or Buy One, Get One sales. We'd like to add a little more, but this will do for now.

New front porch / sidewalk complete with our cat, Patches.

Our friend made us this stone when we moved in almost five years ago, and we've never had a place to display it until now.

Our second project was adding a back deck. Our "deck" was an overgrown piece of plywood on stilts. We're working toward preparing the house for selling (although we're not exactly sure if that's going to happen since our lives seem to change almost daily).

This is the aerial view from our swingset - ha! Notice the picnic table? It was Frrr-eee! It's not great, but the price works. We are planning to stain it. The ferns . . . free. Our yard is being over run by them. Didn't actually know they were spreaders. And, I found the two plant stands for $2 at a garage sale! It's only been finished for a little over a month, but we already love having it. [Side note: Madison was just saying this afternoon that she likes how the sidewalk winds around to the driveway. I told her to make sure to thank Bro. Allan from church that put it in for us.]

Since we're on the subject of our yard, here's a useless piece of information . . .

Daddy's grandpa liked to support the Arbor Day Foundation. So we joined for a while and were sent a few saplings. This is one of the best growing trees we have even after Rick ran it over once with the lawn mower two summers ago. I finally had to put baby formula cans around the rest of them because he kept running them over. I'm excited because it was only 6-8 inches tall when we got it. I can't wait until it blooms -- think it's a Washington Hawthorn.


Again, more useless info . . .

We bought two, count them, two tomato plants (another BOGO deal and I'd gladly pay full price next year). Yep, that huge mound of green is two plants. I can't even begin to estimate the yield of these two plants.

So far they've been ripening a little at a time, but I'm getting nervous -- these plans are loaded.

and more are on the way! Got tomatoes?

Update: Just had to add this . . . since posting, Rick cut the yard (and trimmed, an only occasional task) so it looks much nicer than the pictures posted, a TON of tomatoes have ripened with more on the way in the next couple days and Isaiah ran over one of my saplings in the front yard with his 4-wheeler. Guess I shouldn't have said anything. =D