So...what's been going on? Well, Liam is huge.
Stuff is growing in our backyard as I try in vain to figure out what color I want to paint each and every room in our house.
I actually managed to clean out, thin, and tie back the berries without too many scrapes.
We're working on a garden. Mostly a tomato, pepper, and herb garden. Ryan is working on getting ready for our rototiller-extraordinaire, Cindy.
I'm getting ready by checking obsessively on my herbs and trying to figure out if there's extra storm windows in our garage rafters so I can make a cold frame because they're getting too big for the seed starter.
I'm also looking for strawberry plants because I have a strawberry pot and my seeds don't seem to be doing anything. Oh, and lavender for the other side of the brick wall. And waiting to see what kind of heirloom tomato plants I can get my hands on.
Ryan left for Jordan today so Liam and I are eating ice cream for dinner, um...I mean carrots...yeah, carrots! That's it. He's going to take lots of pictures and write about it when he gets back. Look for that somewhere around August (you've all met Ryan).
Liam has all of the trappings of toddler summer fun. Swingset, sandbox, and pool are all ready to go.
I'm making cheese and knitting lace in my spare time (ha!). I'm on the sixth lace scarf of the year. My original goal was one a month, so I'm ahead still. The cheese-making has just begun, so I'm not sure how that's going to go yet.
I'm also thinking about canning salsa (in case we don't eat all the tomatoes, peppers, and cilantro) this summer and maybe making jelly (I know I can't NOT eat the berries, so we'll have to figure that one out). I'm also going to have a lot of herbs from the look of it, so I'll be drying those, too.
This is just the beginning. We need to re-glaze the windows, re-do the garage roof, paint, fix or re-do the siding, make a workshop...I'd like to get rainwater barrels and a composter going...no problem.
