Saturday, April 30, 2011

Yikes!

Time files! I can't believe it's already been a month since I last posted on my blog. Oh what a busy time it has been! First off we had a few issues come up after moving into our house... turns out our nice "forest" has been seeking it's water from our sewer lines, so it lead us to have to dig up part of the sewer line to replace. Here is me and my big trench I dug.
So for now we have fixed the sewer line , except we have some impending doom overhead as we have a 60+ year old Douglas Fir growing (in fact if you look to the top left corner in the next photo you'll see the trunk of the huge tree) right over the line right before it gets to the street. At some point we'll have either move the line or take the tree out, but as things are flowing freely for now we're just going to wait it out for now. Now, all that digging and making mud caused us to bring in all this...
4 yards of rocks and 4 yards of cedar hogs fuel (and the hogs fuel pile was almost as big as my car!). We moved the the hogs fuel to side of the garage to control the mud and moved the rock back here... And made a patio, where I immediately cluttered with pots. Then since I ran out of pots to put all my plants in I decided to till up the back corner of our property for a garden.
It's about a 15' by 40' section fenced off from the dog for my vegetables and another 3-4' out from the fence for flowers. I'm so please with the way the yard is looking, but boy is it a lot of hard work!!! I have sugar peas, lettuce, beets, radishes, elephant garlic, bok choy, kale and some various herbs growing right now (well more like surviving the cold rainy weather we've been having). Then I have some cucumbers, summer squash, zucchini, winter squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers and snap bean starts inside waiting for the weather to warm up. My goal is to produce so much that I have to give stuff away, we'll see if it actually warms up enough for that to happen... Here are my cute little squash starts.
There hasn't been too much time for sewing lately, but I did get a chance to start this the other day...
Which yesterday I turned into this...
And today finished this...
Each square is 1" finished size... I started it as a patchwork piece for a new sewing machine cover, but changed my mind partway through. I think I'll piece it into a baby quilt... maybe I'll get to that tomorrow... just maybe.