Apple Picking Time!

Apples are beginning to fall off the trees. Time to pick!

Cutting, Splitting, & Planting as a Family

Garden (finally) Plantes

Bring on the rain!

Downing trees - always makes me nervous

Three (dead) trees down @ the end of the driveway. Now the cleanup of all the fallen limbs. Good job, Babe!

"Shed" started ...

Last summer our cheap metal shed that came w/ the house picked up & flipped into the trees one storm. This spring we decided to replace it. After many hours at various hardware stores David said, "I can just build one, you know." So we started planning, and like the garage, the plans got bigger & bigger. He put down the base tonight & our previous 10x10 shed is now going to be 10 x 16 and we'll see how high. Can we say "more power?" (Grunt, grunt).

Snow mold? Yuck!

So much for my allergies being @ bay in the wintertime:

Snow mold is a type of fungus and turf disease that damages or kills grass after snow melts, typically in late winter.

Mold allergy is not only caused by the mold we can find in the bathroom or basement, but we can also find snow mold allergy. Snow mold allergy is similar to greases, weeds and pollen allergy. One thing we have to remember is that mold is able to grow in extremely cold temperature, so winter can be the best season for mold to grow. Mold is not a seasonal allergen like pollen. It could occur in all seasons and get worse during the winter. Therefore, if we often find some health problems or discomfort during the winter, it is very possible for us to have snow mold allergy.

New Bridge

Top of bridge. 

Under bridge. Water is temporarily being re-routed via pump/generator. 

 

 Big dump truck tires!

Big crane. 

Garage Painting

There are always little projects to do as a homeowner. This most recent one is painting the garage. But David did get a new toy out of the deal, a paint sprayer to make the job easier, and hopefully to use indoors as well to make painting faster. We still have plenty to do because the weather only cooperated for one day of the weekend.

Whoo Wee

Today I put in a 9.5-hour shift starting at 6:30. Got home from work and made pork chops with potatoes & gravy along with a side veg. Threw last years compost onto the garden and tilled the whole garden -- both ways, up hill (just kidding). I raked and got it smooth for next year. Then I swept the deck & walkway (to sweep away the black dirt footprints). All while listening to Dave Ramsey's podcast before David got home from his 12 hour shift. What's the plans for tonight? After dinner...shampooing carpets. Yeah!

Summer is Still Hanging On

As long as it was drizzling tonight and couldn't do siding, Hubby Hubie & I went for a walk. We were commenting on how it is starting to smell like fall already and how dark it is when we drive to work, and here we were pleasantly surprised with one more gift of summer, berries. We got a few handfuls of blackberries on the way back from picking plums at the end of our drive. Yum!