Our garden is really taking off! The tomato plants are 3x their original size and are producing. The peppers are doing really we also. Two or three plants have a pepper. The onions are out of control along with the cilantro, parsley and basil. We are about to get overwhelmed with produce! I love it. The zucchini and yellow squash is also growing well next to the house. There are quite a few flowers on each plant.

Hey there! It’s been a while since I have posted. Sorry. No hockey, no posts usually. I hate being on break. I miss it.

I thought I’d put some images of the lawn and garden. I have planted quite a few things this year including tomato, green pepper, yellow pepper, jalapeno pepper, red onion, white onion, yellow onion, shallot, rosemary, purple basil, sweet basil, parsley, cilantro, garlic chives, zucchini,  yellow squash and garlic, maybe. I can’t wait to start picking!

We won our game tonight 9-0. I had one goal and two assists. It was a good game. We needed to rank up as many goals as possible to try to get the point differential since the teams are so close. I think we held on to the fourth place spot. We will probably place next week at 4:30.

On Saturday Mark & Angel had a garage sale. We took a ton of items over in hopes of getting a new lawn mower. I went low on a few things and it paid off! We sold all the big items and had just enough to get a new Troy-Bilt! It is pretty damn sweet. You can bag it, mulch it or shoot the grass out the side. I opted for the mulching today so it would not blow grass everywhere. I also got a shed for the back yard from Mark for $100! Now all of my stuff is out of the garage. No more stinky gas cans. Pretty good weekend. Oh, almost forgot. Our neighbor gave me a truck load of mulch because she had too much! That saved me a ton of money in the spot where the azaleas are going to go. wOOt!

Get well soon grandpa!

I spent most of the day outside doing yard work. I mowed the yard and trimmed up first. I then tackled a pretty big project. My neighbor has a sump pump under her house that has been flooding the space between our houses in the spring. I talked to her earlier in the week and she agreed to get me the materials to fix it. She brought over some pipe. I dug the 20 foot long trench along the fence and buried the pipe. It should definitely keep the water away from the house now. I will need to get just 5-6 more feet and we’ll be good.

After that project ended we went over to Dawn’s house to help her with some spring cleaning. I tore out a giant cedar tree and cleaned up the various shrubs and plants. I cut through my damn 100 foot extension cord. Argh. I also removed a giant rose bush and got rid of her lattice around the porch. It looks pretty nice.

Sorry, I have not posted anything in a while. Haven’t played hockey in over a week because of Easter. I have been doing quite a few yard projects including the garden. I have planted red, yellow, and white onion, shallots and some garlic. I can’t believe how much dirt it is taking to fill our new raised bed. I still have to add another 10 garden soil bags. Later this month I am going to plants some tomato, bell peppers and some herbs. I can’t wait! Another project was the relocation of one of my gutters on the back of the house. The ground caused the water to go under the house so I ran a 12 foot hard pipe under the ground. Planted some new grass and tonight covered it with some straw. I hope the weird weeds stay away. Hehe. The flowers and trees are really growing now. The cherry tree I planted last fall is full of little pink flowers. It looks nice! Pizza is here, gotta go!!!

We won our game tonight 5-3. I had a goal midway through the second period off a great centering pass in front of the goalie. Our team played positions very well and it showed. Not bad, considering we were missing a few guys. It was a fun game.

I added another 20 bags of soil to the garden today. I am broke!

I did quite a bit of work in the back yard today. I built a new raised bed out of treated lumber and filled it with 40 bags of top soil. Last year, our garden did fairly well, but the crappy soil, clay and rock made it hold water so it flooded. This time around I hope it does well. We’ll begin planting in the new couple of weeks after we pay our taxes!

New mums

I went crazy on our yard and landscaping today. I took out all the flowers around the tree ring, and in front by the sidewalk. Some of the flowers were transplanted to new planters and one in the garden around back. I also trimmed the giant knockout rose bush back to a manageable size. The new orange and purple mums look great and only set me back $20. We are headed to a pig roast in a few!!