Inspired by the 'do it in a weekend' magazines, I documented our 'weekend'.
We've been accused of not being tree friendly in our home, seeing we've removed' several trees from our yard. This corner
had two large California redwoods. With the pool it keeps us from planting things which shed! The dilemma what to do with this corner. Enter, conversation with yourself,'going green, grow your own vegetables, farmer roots, past garden experiences,the taste of homegrown tomatoes and vegetables out my back door! One of those thots lead to planter boxes...which means Duane gets to build them!
We had the empty corner...
add at least one trip to the local Lowe's store for wood and supplies
a little hammering
more hammering
a lot more hammering, bags of planting mixture, oh and some plants...my favorite part
add zucchini plants and an already started tomato plant since we waited so late in the year
can't forget the sprinklers, how many trips to the hardware store did that take?
a few stepping stones...
lots of California sunshine and heat, and thanks to the early started tomato plant, not too long for some homegrown tomatoes! yum!!!
and zucchini...on its way
perfect
watch out...it's taking over!!!
last week, well the zucchini plant is done...zucchinied out! We are still holding out for a few more tomatoes, but its time is short...
'our' weekend project, which stretched into several weekends and actually we still haven't finished the corner, the stepping stones don't have any gravel in between them, and planting a few more plants...but we are almost done. As the fall weather begins to cool, it really does, doesn't it? we will finally finish our weekend project. One of the benefits? Duane learned to make killer zucchini bread this summer. And we've enjoyed some tomatoes, our weekend project has been fun all summer.
It was my mother in laws birthday. 79th birthday at that. she had never had a pedicure! The girls (Jill and Lorie) and myself had discussed it several times over the spring and summer, but her birthday seemed like the perfect day to treat her! The callous removal! she was grossed out! and time for waxing! She kept telling the man it was hot, and he kept telling her it was warm!! Needless to say the salon was full of our excitement and laughter! 
