Sunday, October 18, 2009

T minus 7 days

The weekends before a huge party are an excellent time to start large projects that you've been thinking about doing for over a year, right? right??

We've been wanting to move these huge planter boxes forEVAH. They are lovely, but we can't sit and watch the kids in the pool from the cool comfort of the shady lanai because of them.
Finally on Friday, Tyson and the gang came over to move them. Here they are, that am.
After they've gone. Everything seems SO much more open! But we can't leave it like that. Kids could purl off of the edge
GB and I spent 3 hours at Home Depot shopping for planters to go there. We brought back a bunch of stuff. Here we're laying out some red pots and some whitish planters.
Stand back and look..... hmmmm.... not sure if we like this.

Fortunately we also had Lena there helping. She and GB were chatting about what to do and GB remembered that we have a TON of terra cotta pots that he brought back from Thailand.
Much Better!


Here it is.... almost done! We had bought way more plants than we needed. Looks great!
Cora helped too! She planted petunias in these planters that already have stuff in them
Voila!
Planters in their new locale.... waiting to be filled (that's a future project- there are humongous!)
And... our 1st Ruby Red Grapefruit!!! This tree was a gift from the Biermans for our housewarming, last October 2008. Young tree produced 5 grapefruit.
this one was juicy and ONO!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

What's new

New stuff around the house!

Awesome bar GB found on craigslist. Here we are, breaking it in, on my birthday.


New pond. This is the 1st filling. It's leaking somewhere a bit. So we need to reseal it.More CONCRETE! Here, Eli and crew are working on steps to the chickens.


Beautiful sunrise

Monday, October 05, 2009

a few trees

For the purposes of record-keeping.
Yesterday I planted 3 trees I picked up at the school Country Fair. I was going to get one, but since I had the tree on hold, by the end of the day the trees were all $10.

I came home with a dwarf valencia orange, navel orange and soursop.

Planted all 3 yesterday.