First of May
Well, it’s the first of May already. It’s the day when I listen to one of my favorite Jonathan Coulton songs.
It’s also No Pants Day. So if you’re wearing pants take them off.
Salsa Weekend
Back when we lived in the mobile home we had a garden in our back yard. It was kinda fun growing stuff, and getting awesome fresh vegetables in the fall. We didn’t bother planting it during the year in a half it took to sell it, and we haven’t planted a garden at our house yet. We probably won’t. We got enough room in the back yard, but the way that it’s landscaped, we don’t really have a good spot for a garden.
So three years without a garden means we ran out of salsa. After eating homemade salsa for so many years, I can’t stand any of the store boughten crap. I love salsa. I need salsa.
Yesterday we went to a local farmers market and put in an order for 25 pounds of tomatoes, so this weekend will be a salsa making weekend. I can’t wait to taste some good salsa again.
Weekend Deck Maintenance
I haven’t been online much since Thursday. I miss Twitter and I am way behind in my RSS reading. What have I been up to? Well, the In-law were over for the weekend and we worked on our deck. We got most of it done, but due to rain on Sunday, we didn’t finish. We just need to do a little more work on the stairs and then stain it. Here are some before and after pictures.
Before
After
Now time to get to work on the deck. I am hoping to have some Internet time tomorrow.
One Year
One year ago today we moved into our new house. It doesn’t feel like we have been here that long already. We still haven’t painted our bathroom yet. That was the first thing we were going to do. We ended up doing a bunch of other things first. I haven’t posted any pictures here yet, mostly out of laziness. I don’t know if anybody really wants to see house pictures anyway. Oh well, I am off to work tonight for another long weekend at work. Fun stuff.
Hammock
For most of the summer we have been looking for some kind of lawn chairs for the yard. We have a table and chairs on the deck, but nothing in the yard. Two weekends ago we decided to get a hammock. Since we have only one tree in our yard we needed a stand for the hammock. We looked all over town and couldn’t find one, so I ordered one online. It came this weekend, so we also bought a hammock for it this weekend. Who knew a hammock would cost so much. It was close to $200 for everything. It’s supper comfy though. I am looking forward to actually having time to lay in it.
Weekend Mess
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the mess we came home to.
My Wife had a little list of things for her Brother to do. It was nothing crazy. Just keep the house cleaned up, do your dishes, lock the doors when you leave, get the mail, and no parties.
He wasn’t home when we got home, doors were all unlocked, mail boxed was packed full, not a clean dish in the cupboard. He didn’t do anything on the list. I knew there was trouble as soon as we drove into the garage. It smelled like a bar. It reeked of smoke and alcohol. He clammed the sticky alcohol smelling substance spilt all over the garage was water, Yeah, whatever. I had to get the hose out to clean the garage. At least it was in the garage and not the house. It was so obvious he had a party, yet he still denies it.
The good thing about it is that it pissed my Wife off and she is even more likely kick him out by August 1st.
Rhubarb Patch
One of my biggest memories from my Grandma’s old house is the rhubarb patch she had in her backyard. As a kid I remember running back there with a cup of sugar and just picking and eating as much as I could. One of the pluses about our new house is that we have our very own rhubarb patch in our backyard. I ate quite a bit of it last summer, and I can’t wait until it’s big enough to eat this year. I like eating it raw, but I am sure we will pick some to make some rhubarb crunch or something with it too. The people who lived here last planted flowers around the rhubarb. We are going to plant some strawberries in the ring around the rhubarb patch next weekend. We aren’t going to have time to put in a garden this summer, so it will just be rhubarb and berries, but next summer we plan to get back to our gardening. It’s been three years since we have had a garden. I miss the fresh salsa.
