And how does your garden grow?

Ours grows pretty well! We've had a wonderful summer eating yummy organic veggies right from the backyard - lettuce and spinach, carrots, onions, tomatoes and squash! We even got more than 9 pounds of potatoes after planting some leftovers from the store. We combined our tomato haul from home with tomatoes from our Canadian garden, and have canned the past two weeks - sauces, salsa, and even a couple jars of pickles. We had a nice afternoon apple picking yesterday, so applesauce is the plan for this Saturday.

All hands on deck, part 2!

Well, now we're both back at school, but here's an update on how we spent the last days of our freedom (er, summer...). The deck is finished, and we've already used it 2000% more than we used the porch shell - we've had several nice dinners outside, and I've discovered that our wireless network extends to the porch. Now, all we need is a nice lounge chair for next summer! We also spent one afternoon changing out the address numbers on the front - a job which should have been fairly straightforward, but ended up necessitating retouching paint (which, of course, included a shopping trip to buy new paint that matched the faded siding color).