Brief Interlude

We have been working hard the past few weeks.  

The pergola is up and about 75% complete. 

All that is left are the end caps (fancy scrolled pieces) and to stain it. 

Our grass is coming in gorgeous and our vegetable garden is completely assembled and planted. 

We will share some photos of all these things soon, I promise. 

In the meantime, we took a Saturday afternoon off to go frolic through a field of flowers! :)

Yes, seriously!

Our WONDERFUL neighbor is an AMAZING photographer [Uriah Baet Photography]. 

He agreed to help us get some photos to celebrate our 1 year of marriage, 

which was in September, but with busy schedules, travel, and house projects... 

time kind of got away from us. 

So we finally got around to this photo project, 

and we were blessed with lovely weather 

and a breathtaking scenic landscape as our backdrop. 

So blessed to be married to my best friend! 

In 1 month we will be celebrating 5 years since we met! 

Time flies when you are having the time of your life.

So here is to more happiness, love, laughter, travel, and projects! ;)

Pergola | Part 1

We took our first steps this weekend building the pergola. 

We needed some deep holes.. and the Mister was just the right man for the task. 

We went about 3 feet down, set a concrete base, 

then placed about 4 inches of gravel down there for drainage.  

Which is very necessary in that very soggy part of our yard. 

We managed to set 3 out of 4 of our posts. 

Unfortunately the 4th post in the corner of our house will need to be mounted to a concrete base.

While digging we hit some solid concrete...not quite foundation, but more like extra random concrete.

Not too big of a deal, but just one more thing to figure out. 

We have definitely learned that projects are always a problem to solve!

It's Garden Season Y'all!

Things are getting GREEN around here

and we could not be more happy about it! :)

Our showy snowball bush is already pushing out flowers!

We had 2 beautiful days of weekend weather and used every moment 

to make the most of the arrival of Spring!

I started by building our 4 garden boxes.  

(2) 3x8ft boxes

(2) 2x4ft boxes

To build them we used 6ft cedar fence pickets.  

Below are the 2 finished 3x8 ft boxes.  

We plan to use the 2x4ft  boxes for tomatoes.

Once all the dirt we've been piling up from other projects gets leveled, 

we will put the 8ft boxes to the left of the tomatoes and place a trellis between them.

Take a look at this GORGEOUS GRASS!!! 

It's so green and lovely! :) 

We also planted our first bulbs! About 30 Gladiolus flower bulbs. 

I cannot wait to see them popping out of the ground!

They are going to be such a beautiful burst of color this summer. 

While the mister was digging some holes [Pergola: Part 1]

I managed to also get the front, side, and back lawn fertilized and over-seeded. 

Things are about to get much more GREEN around here!