Blogger Catch up- Spring Project

I bought this pond boat at an antique fair.  Rick replaced the mast and built a base for it.

I made a Fairy Garden in it. 

Welcome Fairies!

Yummy! Yummy! Yummy!

Hello, Beautiful!

I cannot wait for you to get in my tummy!

The Saga of The Fence

In April, I was in Arizona at a Meeting when Rick sent me this picture with the caption 'Need for a new fence'. Apparently a whole section of our fence had blown over in a wind storm the night before. Rick spent the rest of the day propping up the fence as best he could, creating this lovely ghetto effect:Did I mention that the day all this was going on also happened to be Rick's birthday?

I wasn't exactly surprised or sad to see the old fence fall over. It was an ugly fence that we had casually discussed replacing... at some point. The fact that it failed catastrophically simply forced Rick to spend most of his free time this summer turning this pile of woodinto possibly the loveliest fence in the city.

(Rick chose Red Cedar so the fence also coincidentally smells nice).Another wind storm not long after snapped our patio umbrella right in half.

Thank you, Mother Nature (and my endlessly hard-working husband), for the Extreme Backyard Makeover this summer.

Ta-da!

This time the produce came from the Farmer's Marketbut that doesn't mean that we are enjoying the pickled green beans any less.

The First Tomato of the Summer!

Hooray! The first ripe tomato from our tomato plants. Mere moments after I snapped this photo, Will took a big bite out of the tomato. I wonder if that is some kind if primordial, caveman instinct as in 'If I bite it, it's mine'. At any rate, we took it into the house, sliced it up and ate it with dinner. Wow- I had forgotten how good real tomatoes are.