Evidence of Hard Work

Laura came to stay the week with us and did a lot of work both inside and outside of the house. Of course, she also cooked very yummy food. Amanda had a cold for the whole week so she mainly supervised. That is until Saturday. Laura left on Friday morning and Tim mowed the yard for the second time this year. We are going to pay for all that fertilizer we put on it last year. It's filling in really well with pretty grass. We also tilled up our first garden. We have grand plans of planting a little of everything. Fingers crossed and prayers prayed that we grow at least a few things that are edible after putting in all this hard work.

Here's our freshly tilled garden.

While Laura was here she got rid of the built-in box that was on our back porch. It had been built there to deflect the air coming off the old HVAC unit that used to sit under the back porch. Since our new HVAC unit is at the end of the house the box no longer needed. Our grill now fits perfectly in that end.

One of our biggest goals has been to get the fence row cleared off. Below is a picture from last summer. See all that brush, honeysuckle vines, trees, etc? It's like that all the way to behind the larger shed.

Now look at it!

This is from between the two sheds.

We still have more to do, but we ran out of energy and broke two rakes so we had to quit for the day. We moved on to building flower boxes for our front porch using gutters. We have to wait until tomorrow for the adhesive caulk we sealed the ends with to dry then we will be planting herbs in it. Pretty cool, huh?

Our pear tree has begun to bloom this week. Laura pruned the tree while she was here so hopefully the tree will produced bigger pears this year. The ones last year were so small they were not very tasty.

One of the other very cool things Laura did while she was here was help us install shades on our back porch. The evening sun is so bright that it has not been possible to sit on the porch during the evening, but now we can.

Can you believe how long Tim's hair is?!? It has never been that long.

We will update on the progress of our garden and fence clean-up.