Project Update

The shed is complete! Well it's complete in my mind. Steve still needs to install downspouts but the door is up, the lock is on, and I got to move lots of stuff out of the garage! YIPPEE!!! It's a beautiful shed and MUCH improved over what used to be out there.

BEFORE : Little lean- to that couldn't

AFTER: The big shed than can!


Other projects? Using the vegetables from the garden. I made my first homemade marinara sauce using tomatoes from our garden and my parents'. Here is is being featured for dinner this evening. A little sweet, but still wonderful to have homegrown food on the plate.



And while my parents frolicked in Hawaii, we watered the yard for them. Ask a thank you for ourselves, we picked a HUGE bouquet of flowers from their yard and there are SO many more flowers left to welcome them home.




It might be time to refresh our supply as well. I love gardens and summer time. I think next year I'd like to plan to make the garden last more into the winter, but we'll see how space allows next year.

The summer of projects

I never liked the yellow house color. I was VERY excited when Steve agreed to paint the house this summer. Then the actual project arrived, specifically painting trim, and I am wavering in my enthusiasm.

The new color? Love it!

The process we are in the middle of to finish the project? I don't love it. Trim is not a fun thing to paint. It just isn't. Being in awkward positions high on a ladder that isn't quite stable... gives me the shivers. It's the price I must pay for my pretty house though. I know I'll appreciate it more having done it myself, well with a lot of work on Steve's part too ;) A lot.

Here's the latest photos of our home improvement project.


Gettin' ready


The transformation begins

Break for lunch!


Clean up the supplies


My worker bee, very dirty from painting!


End result. *sigh* so much more clean and crisp :)


And changing paces a little bit, the beautiful shelves in our shed. All that's left is hanging the door :)