Our very first garden

Jeremy built and we planted our very first garden this weekend. We spent a lot of time at our local home improvement garden center probing the poor staff. I'm pretty sure we've got all of our questions answered.. if not we can certainly call and pester them some more. It was a rough venture trying to choose one fruit/herb/veggie over another but we narrowed it down to:

Eggplant, beans, 3 different kinds of lettuce, cucumber, brussell sprouts and garlic...
...which is why we had to build a second planter

so we could plant some squash, carrots, potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower and onions. There's also some dill, mint, chives, dwarf curry, cilantro, lemon balm and basil in the pots and we'll add some peppers to the middle pot.

We added a little walk way in between the two beds with bricks we already had, and this is all made out of material that we already had too by the way. I'm starting to learn that it's completely ok to have a somewhat of a pack rat of a husband. Sometimes tolerance doesn't mean that you're a push over! GO FIGURE.

It truly didn't look like we had nearly this much produce to raise when it was in our cart. But we are so so excited to see the fruits... er veggies of our labor in a couple of short months!

Windows and a bamboozled yard

We've been planning to get rid of our bamboo in the back yard for the two years we've been here. Wanna see why?

And this is with serious grooming. True story.
Here are some during photos. I didn't snap very many because I was in absolute awe and amazement at every transforming movement of the tractor. Kind of awesome.
Here's some afters. We rototilled the area and very meticulously sorted dirt from root. We need to treat the area and baby it for the next month before we can think about planting anything, landscapers orders. We drained out the pond, also. We basically need to redo everything we've done to our yard. It's fine though. I'm still on a post-bamboo high. It's like magic, what the lack of bamboo has done for our yard. Our yard has been bamboozled!

We also knocked the trim in the living room off of our list.
It's hard to tell in a picture what all needed to be done. We needed to sand/caulk/fill in holes/prime and paint...
This is what a hard working husband looks like when it's late at night and he's determined to finish a lingering project.

And viola! It's finally finished.

Check and check!

Ashes, ashes we all fall down!

Jeremy and I have been working out in the yard for several hours, every day since Sunday. 6 days of giving our yard a bit of a face lift. I didn't have any before pictures so I will just leave you with the aftermath piles and said piles being burnt into nothingness.