Instead of bombarding twitter with links, here's the house tour (also in a better order than I uploaded them in. Heh.)
Here you go!
Entrance and addition room (currently guest room and storage.) (So. Much. Storage.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOhjdz6rIMM
Dining room, kitchen and living room:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyaMxokxS3k
Second view of living room, dining room, kitchen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy27Gua3cC0
Eric's room (The nursery) which will soon be switched to just the nursery, and he will be moved to the room next to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1WzNXXwFMw
The half bath on the same end of the house as the kids rooms, and the jam packed full of crap room that we will be turning into Eric's room. Soon. Ish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5irBUkoPO4
The hallway that leads to the laundry area, our room and the main bathroom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sq2L0Ftido
Hallway again and bathroom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXHl-8uf2I
That's my house! Maybe I'll have to take a video of outside in the spring - someone remind me. :)
Monday, December 20, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Because I don't have enough to do
I am going to sign up for something that hopefully will be fun, relaxing and time consuming.
I've been wanting to read more - I am, honestly, bored of playing around online, and would rather sit with a good book, or have a bath with a good book, or whatever, with a good book, and stumbled across freakingbookworm.com, whose writer I follow on twitter, and through her: http://namereading.blogspot.com/2009/12/2010-sign-ups.html
I have signed up using my full (married) name, so I have 20 books to go before the end of the year. If I get my crap together, maybe I will post which books I've been reading, and fill in my name at some point. :D
So, this is all the letters for which I need to find good books to read, to check them off:
A
A
B
C
C
E
E
E
E
F
I
I
J
L
M
N
N
N
R
R
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
:D
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
I've been wanting to read more - I am, honestly, bored of playing around online, and would rather sit with a good book, or have a bath with a good book, or whatever, with a good book, and stumbled across freakingbookworm.com, whose writer I follow on twitter, and through her: http://namereading.blogspot.com/2009/12/2010-sign-ups.html
I have signed up using my full (married) name, so I have 20 books to go before the end of the year. If I get my crap together, maybe I will post which books I've been reading, and fill in my name at some point. :D
So, this is all the letters for which I need to find good books to read, to check them off:
A
A
B
C
C
E
E
E
E
F
I
I
J
L
M
N
N
N
R
R
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
:D
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Heh. We added more to the garden plans.
Since I don't want to read through and figure out what I wrote before, I will just tell you what I think are the new ones...
Basil (Purple and Sweet), Dill, Oregano, Thyme, Cilantro, Arugula, Mint, Rosemary, Marigolds (Safari Mix) Sweet Williams, Jacob's Ladder.... and I think that's it. For now.
Oh, potatoes. And white onions. Anyone know if onion 'seeds' last for more than one season? If I don't plant all 200 onions we have here, (not to mention the 'multiplier' onions we have) will they go bad by next year?
We plan to put Jacob's Ladder flowers in the front of the house, Sweet Williams along the sidewalk, Marigolds (Safari Mix) next to the front steps, and Sweet Peas around the side of the addition. :D I know, we're kind of crazy, but hopeful, ambitious, and considering our motivation for this massive project is not faltering, I have no doubt we will continue one with it. :D
Also, because, that would be a huge waste.
I think I need a gardening hat. I don't do the tanning thing, and don't care if I look ridiculous. :)
Basil (Purple and Sweet), Dill, Oregano, Thyme, Cilantro, Arugula, Mint, Rosemary, Marigolds (Safari Mix) Sweet Williams, Jacob's Ladder.... and I think that's it. For now.
Oh, potatoes. And white onions. Anyone know if onion 'seeds' last for more than one season? If I don't plant all 200 onions we have here, (not to mention the 'multiplier' onions we have) will they go bad by next year?
We plan to put Jacob's Ladder flowers in the front of the house, Sweet Williams along the sidewalk, Marigolds (Safari Mix) next to the front steps, and Sweet Peas around the side of the addition. :D I know, we're kind of crazy, but hopeful, ambitious, and considering our motivation for this massive project is not faltering, I have no doubt we will continue one with it. :D
Also, because, that would be a huge waste.
I think I need a gardening hat. I don't do the tanning thing, and don't care if I look ridiculous. :)
Friday, April 23, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
I'm going to garden.
And I hope I don't bite off more than I can chew. Pun intended.
I am overly neurotic, but I do know that at some point, I will be able to let the garden do what it will do.
Here's what I have planned so far...
To sow indoors starting, well, today:
- Tomato (Manitoba)
- Asparagus (Viking)
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower (Early Snowball)
- Sweet Peas (flowers, not the edible variety)
- Thyme
- Oregano
- Basil
- Sage
- Rosemary
- May look at some other herbs. Also might get chives.
To sow outdoors after May long weekend:
- Onions (2 types - yellow for storing over the winter, and a multiplier variety)
- Garlic
- Beans (2 varieties: Dwarf Green Stringless and Heirloom Contender)
- Swiss Chard (2 varieties: Discovery and Bright Lights)
- Spinach (Regal)
- Lettuce (Grand Rapids)
- Cucumber (Cool Breeze F1 Hybrid)***
- Carrots (of course!) (Heirloom Danvers-Half Long)
- Peas (Heirloom Wandos)
- Strawberries
- Wildflowers (from the paper our invitations were made out of. I saved the scraps I trimmed and wanted to plant last year, but was busy and forgot...)
*** QUESTION FOR ANYONE WHO KNOWS Does hybrid mean it may be genetically modified?
Anyway, yeah, I went out and measured where we intend to put the garden. It isn't built yet, obviously. Here's where my neurotic behaviour really kicks in:
See, I can't just measure a square or rectangle and plot rows in it. We've got a very irregular lot, with no 90 degree angles on it. So... our garden will be in irregular garden, with no 90 degree angles in it.
Literally, the dimensions are:
Left side (in picture above) 6 feet 9 inches.
Along the top 14.5 feet
The right side (sharp angle down to the bottom right) 14 feet
The long line from mid page on the left side to the lower right side is 22.5 feet.
A very irregular garden. BUT, I plan to make it work.
As you can see above, I had to make my own right angles to be able to measure the angles properly. Genius? Yeah, I thought so, too. ;)
See, the reason I didn't just make a rectangle box straight out from the 14.5 foot section is this: It wouldn't look good. Also, it would be a bigger pain to try to trim the grass in between the fence and the garden, on both sides. Weird triangle spaces of lawn would be wasted, so we figured we should just go right across.
We were planning on just making a straight line go across the yard so that the garden would come out to 7 feet from the 14.5 foot long fence, but then after measuring and looking at it in the yard, decided it might be better aesthetically to have it be parallel to the deck (even though Chris wants to rip out the deck. However, if the deck is taken out, the garden will still be parallel to the house this way.)
Here's the plan for rows...
The black ladder looking thing is going to be nothing. A walkway in the garden so I can get where I need to go. We figured this might be easier than doing rows the other way. (Suggestions?) Please note that the sun rises on the side where it measures 14.5 feet and moves across to the 22.5 foot measured side.
The rows that I have planned are kind of this:
Forgive the extreme crappiness of this picture. I used Paint to just quickly show what I want to do. :D
As was recommended by Chair, I will be putting onions kind of all over the place, to help keep the kitties out. We have enough neighborhood cats that I KNOW this will become a problem quickly. We'll also be putting down pieces of chicken wire in between rows, to try to keep them from walking in there, and finding a place to do their business.
Soooo... We will be putting in an (approximately) 155 sq ft garden. For which, I calculated, we will be needing about 8.611111 cubic yards of dirt (topsoil).
Going to go call and find out how much that will be. (Tried to call, they are out to lunch. haha)
Guess I will hear back this afternoon about it.
Edit: They called. Minimum order for free delivery: 5 Yards. $21/yard. So... we need about 9 yards, so... $189.
Sooooo. Anyone out there think this may be a bit ambitious?
Any suggestions for planting, which plants to put next to the others? I know lettuce needs partial shade (according to the packet) so we will be sort of covering it with a mesh thing to partially block out the sun. Any idea if that will be good enough?
Do greens/lettuces do best altogether? Planning on putting the spinach, chard and lettuce together in the triangle corner, so far. But, does chard/spinach do better in full sun?
If we try to plant potatoes, can we just plant some that we've bought from the store, or do we have to overwinter them, until they sprout, like I have read somewhere before?
I have a million questions, and feel like calling to ask people would be bothersome. :S I should just look this stuff up online!
(Anyone want to come out for the weekend and help us build - read that as watch Eric and tell me what to do, I will do the work - a garden?)
<3 <3 <3
I have to say, since getting pregnant (I MEAN WITH ERIC, I AM NOT PREGNANT. lol) I have changed a lot. When I first got pregnant, I felt more feminine. I stopped caring as much what other people thought and felt like I was doing what I needed to do, when I needed to do it. I have more confidence. (I don't think that is a typical new-Mom thing...?) I am more ambitious. We've done so much to our house, inside and out, already since he was born, more than the 3 years we lived here before he was born. :D
I am eager to get things done, to build, to make it our own, even though we don't plan to stay here for more than a few more years. This house has such a great feeling in it now, and I think this garden will make it even better.
:D Happier than I've ever been. Again.
I am overly neurotic, but I do know that at some point, I will be able to let the garden do what it will do.
Here's what I have planned so far...
To sow indoors starting, well, today:
- Tomato (Manitoba)
- Asparagus (Viking)
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower (Early Snowball)
- Sweet Peas (flowers, not the edible variety)
- Thyme
- Oregano
- Basil
- Sage
- Rosemary
- May look at some other herbs. Also might get chives.
To sow outdoors after May long weekend:
- Onions (2 types - yellow for storing over the winter, and a multiplier variety)
- Garlic
- Beans (2 varieties: Dwarf Green Stringless and Heirloom Contender)
- Swiss Chard (2 varieties: Discovery and Bright Lights)
- Spinach (Regal)
- Lettuce (Grand Rapids)
- Cucumber (Cool Breeze F1 Hybrid)***
- Carrots (of course!) (Heirloom Danvers-Half Long)
- Peas (Heirloom Wandos)
- Strawberries
- Wildflowers (from the paper our invitations were made out of. I saved the scraps I trimmed and wanted to plant last year, but was busy and forgot...)
*** QUESTION FOR ANYONE WHO KNOWS Does hybrid mean it may be genetically modified?
Anyway, yeah, I went out and measured where we intend to put the garden. It isn't built yet, obviously. Here's where my neurotic behaviour really kicks in:
See, I can't just measure a square or rectangle and plot rows in it. We've got a very irregular lot, with no 90 degree angles on it. So... our garden will be in irregular garden, with no 90 degree angles in it.
Literally, the dimensions are:
Left side (in picture above) 6 feet 9 inches.
Along the top 14.5 feet
The right side (sharp angle down to the bottom right) 14 feet
The long line from mid page on the left side to the lower right side is 22.5 feet.
A very irregular garden. BUT, I plan to make it work.
As you can see above, I had to make my own right angles to be able to measure the angles properly. Genius? Yeah, I thought so, too. ;)
See, the reason I didn't just make a rectangle box straight out from the 14.5 foot section is this: It wouldn't look good. Also, it would be a bigger pain to try to trim the grass in between the fence and the garden, on both sides. Weird triangle spaces of lawn would be wasted, so we figured we should just go right across.
We were planning on just making a straight line go across the yard so that the garden would come out to 7 feet from the 14.5 foot long fence, but then after measuring and looking at it in the yard, decided it might be better aesthetically to have it be parallel to the deck (even though Chris wants to rip out the deck. However, if the deck is taken out, the garden will still be parallel to the house this way.)
The black ladder looking thing is going to be nothing. A walkway in the garden so I can get where I need to go. We figured this might be easier than doing rows the other way. (Suggestions?) Please note that the sun rises on the side where it measures 14.5 feet and moves across to the 22.5 foot measured side.
The rows that I have planned are kind of this:
Forgive the extreme crappiness of this picture. I used Paint to just quickly show what I want to do. :D
As was recommended by Chair, I will be putting onions kind of all over the place, to help keep the kitties out. We have enough neighborhood cats that I KNOW this will become a problem quickly. We'll also be putting down pieces of chicken wire in between rows, to try to keep them from walking in there, and finding a place to do their business.
Soooo... We will be putting in an (approximately) 155 sq ft garden. For which, I calculated, we will be needing about 8.611111 cubic yards of dirt (topsoil).
Going to go call and find out how much that will be. (Tried to call, they are out to lunch. haha)
Guess I will hear back this afternoon about it.
Edit: They called. Minimum order for free delivery: 5 Yards. $21/yard. So... we need about 9 yards, so... $189.
Sooooo. Anyone out there think this may be a bit ambitious?
Any suggestions for planting, which plants to put next to the others? I know lettuce needs partial shade (according to the packet) so we will be sort of covering it with a mesh thing to partially block out the sun. Any idea if that will be good enough?
Do greens/lettuces do best altogether? Planning on putting the spinach, chard and lettuce together in the triangle corner, so far. But, does chard/spinach do better in full sun?
If we try to plant potatoes, can we just plant some that we've bought from the store, or do we have to overwinter them, until they sprout, like I have read somewhere before?
I have a million questions, and feel like calling to ask people would be bothersome. :S I should just look this stuff up online!
(Anyone want to come out for the weekend and help us build - read that as watch Eric and tell me what to do, I will do the work - a garden?)
<3 <3 <3
I have to say, since getting pregnant (I MEAN WITH ERIC, I AM NOT PREGNANT. lol) I have changed a lot. When I first got pregnant, I felt more feminine. I stopped caring as much what other people thought and felt like I was doing what I needed to do, when I needed to do it. I have more confidence. (I don't think that is a typical new-Mom thing...?) I am more ambitious. We've done so much to our house, inside and out, already since he was born, more than the 3 years we lived here before he was born. :D
I am eager to get things done, to build, to make it our own, even though we don't plan to stay here for more than a few more years. This house has such a great feeling in it now, and I think this garden will make it even better.
:D Happier than I've ever been. Again.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
I'm back, and will be again.
Sooo. Been awhile. Again.
I don't know if anyone checks this at all. If you do, compulsively, hoping for some small update, sorry. Facebook has taken over. (In case you didn't know that already, by the 300 status updates per week I typically average.)
My son is one. he is 1 year old. 12 months. (and 7 days, I might add.) 53 weeks old.
Holy crap.
On that note, I think I will be cutting this post really really short, and going to do something that was completely necessary a long time ago. Just haven't done it yet. (Going back on facebook and writing down any milestones I didn't put on the calendar...) Will take me all of tonight. (If I am lucky...)
BUT, I will be back here, and soon. My new internet friend (met on twitter via another twit, lol) will probably remind me to post. (Not directly, but still.)
I don't know if anyone checks this at all. If you do, compulsively, hoping for some small update, sorry. Facebook has taken over. (In case you didn't know that already, by the 300 status updates per week I typically average.)
My son is one. he is 1 year old. 12 months. (and 7 days, I might add.) 53 weeks old.
Holy crap.
On that note, I think I will be cutting this post really really short, and going to do something that was completely necessary a long time ago. Just haven't done it yet. (Going back on facebook and writing down any milestones I didn't put on the calendar...) Will take me all of tonight. (If I am lucky...)
BUT, I will be back here, and soon. My new internet friend (met on twitter via another twit, lol) will probably remind me to post. (Not directly, but still.)
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