Yakin'

Last weekend we drove a little ways out of town to a lake and went kayaking. The lake was awesome for a first time kayaker like me! There are no big boats allowed, just little fishing boats. There were a few people fishing and a couple other people kayaking.

It was the perfect day to be out, not to hot just warm.

There was a little island we went around and this little goose was there sitting on her nest. It was so fun to be able to go around the island even though there was only about a foot of water to go through.

Lately we have been dealing with cicadas (si-ka-da). They don't really bother anybody, they are just really really noisy! They come out of the ground in these exoskeleton things and then a locust looking bug comes out of the exoskeleton and looks like the bug below.

Closet re-do

The first project inside our house that we tackled was the entry closet. We figured we'd start small and move our way up from there. We didn't get a very good before pic, it used to have metal wire shelving in there and it wasn't very functional. The first picture is after we ripped out the shelving and filled in the holes in the wall.

Below is the finished closet! We painted the walls "Dusty Miller", it really is the same color as the plant that is light green/blue and sort of fuzzy called Dusty Miller. Dusty liked it because they share the same name. We added some shelves for our shoes and the buckets hold our gloves and hats.

We have a lot of wildlife here, this is a frog that was outside our window the other night.

And this is one of 2 bunnies that we saw in our yard near the garden! I hope they don't eat anything!

This is what our garden looks like as of late. Sadly, we have already had some losses, something (we think birds) came and plucked half of our corn out of the ground and left them there laying down. You can sort of see them if you look close on the left. Here is what we have so far: pole beans, corn, sunflowers, radish, zucchini, dill, rosemary, squash, peas, lettuce, beets, carrots, strawberries, tomatoes, cilantro, walla walla's, basil, peppers, jalapenos, and fennel. We tried to grow things that we already eat and buy from the store, we still have to plant cucumbers and pumpkins. We will see what we get food from, hopefully everything! We also have wild strawberries and green onions that grow in our yard ( and everyone else's) but we haven't tried them.

Here is a little tomato!

Life in TN

Okay.... so I guess we are an "update the blog once a year kind of people". Between our last post and now we moved to a new place and so far we really love it! The house we found was only 3 minutes from where we were living so it was a pretty easy move. Here are some updates.

We planted so little planters on our front porch. Don't worry, the planter boxes are attached to some pre-existing fastiners that were already in the porch so our plants don't go flying around when it gets windy, and it does get REALLY REALLY windy. Like, blow the neighbors 4ft diameter tree out of the ground, roots and all.

We have also been working on a garden. We made these raised garden beds that should hold up for awhile. We put weed blocker stuff on the bottom and also chicken wire to keep the moles out.

Above is our yard pre-garden and below is our yard with the garden beds in place. The tall thing with the string is for our pole beans to climb up.