Feathered Visitors

We had some visitors to the back porch this spring. A family of robins came to visit. I have a beautiful picture of the baby blue eggs but it is trapped on our memory stick from our camera. I am still trying to figure out how to rescue the many pictures we have waiting in some sort of digital purgatory. A few brief weeks and our little blue eggs hatched and became fuzzy little baby birds. Before we could realize they were MUCH BIGGER and already have flown the coop......literally. Now we have an empty nest. It will be our first of many with 5 kids who are growing almost as fast as the little fuzzy robins who graced our back stoop.

Buzzzzzz

Old houses and personal protective equipment. Or my life as a bug. You decide!

Proof is in the pudding

Nicole hard at work!

Painting Adventure!

Nicole and I have been painting the front porch. It is one slow job! We got a nifty heat gun and have been slowly scraping and chipping the old paint off the posts and rails. So far we have managed to get two posts done and about 3 feet of rail! What a difficult job. It will be nice when it is done! Above is a before picture showing the condition of the posts and rails. Below is an after picture to give you an idea of what it will look like.

What a difference!

Here is the after picture.

Spring Gardens

Spring has definitely sprung! Most of the spring gardens are planted and doing well. Lettuce, Carrots, Turnips, Onions, Garlic, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Spinach, Beets, Banana Peppers, and Cabbage. We will put in a few more things before summer fully sets in such as, Mellon's, Zucchini, and Green Beans. The new raised beds are doing well. I hope to have more put in at the end of the year for a total of about 18 6x3 foot 6 inch high raised cedar beds. These are all planted in a hybrid square foot/lasagna garden approach. I love raised beds they are neat and tidy and are wonderful to work with. Each spring I am easily able to get in and work up (accually I never even turn the soil anymore!) the beds nearly 2 to 4 weeks before most gardeners in the area. Due to the heavy spring rains this year I was able to get plants in before most gardeners were able to even begin the process of tilling.