Grow Little Ones....Grow!!!

We stopped by the garden yesterday to put in some cucumbers and were amazed to see..

Everything we put in last Monday already coming up!

Onions...

Beans...

More beans and corn!  How exciting!

Does this make us farmers??

May...

Our good friends Jerry and Sylvia are letting us use this great garden, and we are taking advantage!  Stu is walking between two rows of tomatoes, we also have some onions, beans, hot peppers, corn and soon...fennel.  That should keep us busy for the Summer!

A few shots around the yard.  We've been doing a lot of landscaping...Tis the season!

 

My little herb garden is doing well.

We got these two watering troughs and two wash basins at an antique shop dirt cheap, perfect for a little close to home garden.  Tomatoes on the left and eggplant on the right.

Just barely coming up...arugula on the left and dill on the right.

Here I've got peppers starting and my mint, lemon balm and a couple of mums that survived the winter.

Before we left for South Carolina last month we started to build this rock wall.

And yesterday we did this section, I'd like to say we are done, but I think the best I can say is that we have more done, that we have to do!

It looks pretty good already, but wait until we get done... I know I can't wait!

Stu's lawn still looks great, we are keeping our fingers crossed that this one will last through the Summer.

We started working on the apartment above the garage.  It's exciting to see some progress being made, finally!

This will be the kitchen.

Across from that will be the living room and "office" tucked in the dormer.

The back half will be the bedroom with the walk-in closet on the left.

The bathroom.

Looking toward the kitchen and living room.

Can't wait to get it finished! And the projects continue...

April Update

Wow, I have been really negligent in my blogging duties!  I guess I could say that we haven't been doing anything, but that would be far from the truth.  Anyway here are a few shots I took back in April with the good intentions of posting right away...

We had a pair of titmice birds shredding our welcome mat for nesting material.

Kitty is adjusting to life in the woods just fine....ahhhhhh, the good life!

 

We had a nice long 3 or so week vacation planned in April, our first long trip with the motor home.  Well...  it was having some problems so we cancelled our first leg of the trip to Alabama.  The repairs took longer than we expected/hoped so we cancelled our second leg to Jacksonville, FL and just decided to drive the car down to my folks place in South Carolina, so our 3 weeks turned into 4 days.  Oh well, there will be other trips...

So, while in vising my folks, we took a sightseeing/dolphin cruise. 

The cruise left from Hilton Head Island.

 

Cute little harbor town, but very touristy!

There she is, the Vagabond.

 

Stu, ready to set sail...

It was incredibly windy, I didn't think we were going to get out, but with some fancy maneuvering we were under way.

Modest beach homes along the shore.

We did actually see quite a few dolphins, but trying to time it just right...

 

Forget about it!

Just managed to get little bits of the tail fin.

 

Heading back into the harbor.

 

Lunch at the Krazy Crab!

Nice parking job on my part...I must have really been hungry!

So now my folks are back in Maine to enjoy the Summer...