Rebuild

I'm always impressed by how well Andrew and I work together on home projects. Today was especially impressive. In just a few hours we completely cleared out the bathroom. We ripped up the floors, ripped the tileboard off the walls, and took out the sink, toilet, medicine cabinet, and tub/shower. It's now a completely empty room. And now we are to the scary part. We have to put it all back together. We are still trying to figure out the layout of the new room. If anyone would like to come over and see what we have to work with I am open to any suggestions. I think anything would be better than it was. Here's some before and after demo pictures.

Demolition Day

We're finally starting on our upstairs bathroom.  Today is demolition.  It's always scary tearing things out.  You never know what your going to find.
Pictures to follow.

"Let's do something crazy"

At dinner a few hours ago, Andrew said, "do you wanna do something crazy today?"
I said absolutely.  "What do  you have in mind?" He said, "What do you think about ripping up the carpet in the living room?" Woo hoo.
Andrew and I have a tendency to start a project before we've have time to plan it out. So we have no idea what's under the carpet or what we will  be doing to the floors next. But the living is cleared and we're getting started.  I can't wait to see it!

Earth Month

I've always enjoyed gardening, but I've never successfully grown anything-except my tulips do somehow come up every spring. Last year, Andrew and I decided we would start a vegetable garden in containers on our back deck. The only thing I actually got to harvest was lettuce.  But it was pretty good lettuce.
So this year, we are trying again.  I've bought 3 more gardening books because last year's selections, The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardens and The Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardens, weren't helpful enough.
Two big changes we're making this year: 1) we will be planting in the ground instead of containers and 2) we planted seeds in starter packs and will be transplanting them outside later in the season.
We also are going to be making our own compost.  I'm considering this my Earth Month (March 22-April 22) project, along with finally getting recycling bins from City Hall. (I've just been saving all our recyclables in boxes and grocery bags since the beginning of the year)
The compost part scares me a little.  One of the books I bought is all about composting. It's called Compost. There's a whole chapter about the bugs you want to be in your compost. eeek...I do not like that part.  But what's even worse than that, you don't neccessarily want these bugs in your garden so you have to pick them out before you add the compost to your garden.  I told Andrew I will need heavy duty gloves and special garden tongs.  He doesn't understand why I need tongs.  He thinks if I have gloves on I should be able to just pick it up with my hands. This is going to be quite a challenge.
Here's a list of what we will be growing-we've added a few things from last year's selection.

 Tomato

  Pepper

  Lettuce

  Carrot

  Cucumber

  Squash

  Zuchinni

  Green Beans

  Onion

  Garlic

  Basil

  Cilantro



 

  



planting-March 21



greenhouses

growth-March 28