Renovation Projects

Over the past few weeks we have replaced our flat roof, tiled around the fireplace and front door and refinished our living room floors. We have also had roofers replace our roof. Here are some pictures from our projects. Keep in mind, we are currently waiting the 7 days before we can clean our refinished floors or replace our furniture. We have also not repainted our baseboards or installed the quarter round. More pictures to come once the house is back to normal! I also threw in a few pictures of Dudley and his new winter coat for good measure. Thanks to Walter & Terry for the new coat! Dudley sure does love it :)

A Dudley Video

Here's a little video of Dudley playing for the camera. We're stilling learning what a "bone" is. You can hear the construction in the background. Notice the bad Petsmart haircut.

Updates Around the House

Right now Forrest is on our "flat roof" over the kitchen and here's what it looks like outside our dinning room window. Hopefully by the end of it we will have a leak free roof!

Our flat roof without the railings.

The back corner of our kitchen with all of the mess from a falling ceiling.

More garden goodies!

Our new duvet cover!

When we finished installing the outlets in the bedroom we rearranged the furniture and put out our new duvet cover. Our bedroom feels so big now!

This one's for you Alyse!

Fruits of Our Labor

A couple of weeks ago we got our first cucumber from the garden. Now, I'm drowning in them! Especially since Forrest won't even go near them. I did my first batch of bread & butter pickles today. I was going to try some dill pickles but after reading about how much time and effort they take, I decided I would just buy my own. We are also getting lots of squash from the garden. Here are some pictures of the fruits from our garden.

Home Updates

We recently got a new rug for our dinning room...thanks Mom! The room is almost complete and is only lacking blinds and some form of a curtain. But for now, here are a few pictures of the semi finished room.

After 9 months of a primer white office, I finally picked a color and painted. I have yet to organize the room so the pictures are just of the walls and and floor. More to come when it's done. Eventually my colors will be blue, black and white. Here are a few pictures of the walls.

Our Garden

Since before the last frost...which by the way was the middle of MAY!!! Forrest and I have been growing vegetables. We started by planting seeds in peat pots inside of the house and in May we began to dig our garden outside. We then transplanted some of the peat pots and added a lot of seed to the garden. We have since found that the things we planted directly into the garden as seed did much better than those we transplanted from the peat pots. Go figure. We are also growing everything organically. We purchased all organic seeds and have only use poultry poop as fertilizer.

Here are some of the things growing in our garden.

• Corn
• Green beans
• Squash
• Broccoli
• Cucumbers
• Tomatoes
• Carrots
• Spinach
• Lettuce
• Onions
• Basil
• Cilantro
• Parsley
• Rosemary
• Bell peppers

While there is a lot in the garden, we have only begun to harvest lettuce, spinach, all of the herbs, and cucumbers. Another reason we are so late getting anything is that we planted everything from seed and the growing season in Ohio is much later than NC's. However, we are excited about the veggies we've gotten so far and can't wait for the rest to be ready. Here are some pictures of our garden. These were taken a few weeks ago so everything is much bigger. Especially the cucumber, corn, and squash plants, they nearly take over most of the garden.

Our beans..we thought they would climb but to our surprise they are bush beans!

The cucumbers that have doubled in size and have 4 times as many blooms.

The squash on the left has also doubled in size.

Our corn is to the top of the fence now.

The tomatoes in the right front are also above the top of the fence.

Broccoli, onions, and green pepper