Archive > February 2010
Blame it on illness and the Olympics
I know, I know. I have been a stranger the last week on the blog. I caught a horrible flu bug over Valentine’s Weekend and just have not caught up since! Nate and I have been working on my office/gym as well as side projects between rain storms and major Olympic watching. Stay tuned for [...]
Birthday Bounty
Nate was cute and bought me two new software programs for my birthday. I am excited to learn how to use them. I believe they are based on CAD – which I have no experience with so it may be a steep learning curve, but I do like a challenge.
A Precision Measuring Device
Look at what came in the mail today? A sunlight calculator – yep it’s going to measure how much sun I get in my future veg garden so I can stop worrying about whether I can have plentiful crops this year. Can wait to get the experiment up and running tomorrow morning next week when [...]
Garden Planning
Don’t laugh, but here are my sad little photoshopped photos of the garden layout. See my trellis along the side of the house? And my stepping stones around the the exterior? Then along the sidewalk will be our retaining wall. Here’s the front side yard with future garden bed. Can’t you visualize a row of [...]
Arrival
The treadmill has arrived. All 200lbs. Nate and I pulled and pushed it into the dining room last night. And of course the cats were all over it. Lets see if I can get Nate to help me put it together tonight during the season premier of Lost.
Bargain Find: Reusable Microfiber Cloth
Well this is a silly post, but I couldn’t help myself. Sometimes you find a item in the bargain bin that seems too good to be true. With concrete floors throughout the house, I like using my Swiffer to dust between sweepings, but I hate the waste and cost of the disposable Swiffer cloths. I [...]
Timber!
The sun made an appearance this weekend. It was a fantastic opportunity between rain storms to get outside and do some manual labor like cutting down two fruit trees! It started out innocently enough. I asked Nate to help me measure the spot for my new and improved veg garden. While we were outside we [...]
