The Garden, cont.

Initial indication led us to believe the arrival of our son was imminent so in order to avoid a last minute call to me at work and trying to hurry and get home from Seattle, I officially started my paternity leave. Until he does get here, we are taking the time to relax, catch up on sleep, and finish some fun projects.



We got some seeds and starts for our garden, one particular parsley plant promised specifically to Abigail. She has taken ownership, will plant it, water it, and watch it grow. She is very excited.



After her plant was finished, Abby took it upon herself to collect all empty buckets as Jess and I emptied them, transporting dirt from one to another to another.



We decided on allocating two of our beds to herbs, including parsley, dill, basil, cilantro, rosemary, and chives.



For the border of the garden we got a few flowers. I'm not sure what kind they are. You will have to ask Jess. But they are colorful and smelly, if that helps.



Last time at this point in the pregnancy, Jess was drywalling a kitchen wall. This time, she decided to take it a little easy and stick to gardening.



There is the whole garden. On the left side in the back we planted seeds for onions and green onions. Then the front two are the herbs. On the right we have tomatoes in the back bed, zuchinni and carrots in the middle, and will eventually plant lavender in the front.



We still need about four more flowers to finish the border but then it's all about watching everything grow and, when the time comes, making Jess a great salad while I order chicken teriyaki takeout.

French Doors

If you think a weed whacker is powerful enough to throw a rock from the gravel driveway all the way to my deck, you would be wrong. It's actually powerful enough to throw it across the deck and through my french door window. As luck would have it, even though I have a 10 pane door, it is all one piece of glass. I wasn't sure what to think when I saw the safety glass with its spider web of cracks creep across the entire door.



As usually happens with things I need to fix, they do not carry that model anymore at Home Depot. We were, however, able to order a new replacement glass without ordering a whole new door.



Fast forward two weeks and the new part has arrived. It turns out the door was pretty well designed. I popped out the plugs and removed the screws and the whole glass unit came out in one piece.



It was then a simple matter of replacing the screws and plugs and there you go, good as new.

The Garden, cont.

As it turns out, there is not such thing as planting chicken teriyaki. I'm sure you can imagine my disappointment when I found out it was in fact primarily for vegetables. After weeks of searching, my Dad found some available wood chips. I won't say where we got them as we aren't 100% sure they were technically available to the public. Let's just say we filled the truck quickly and both wished it was a little darker outside.



What a difference some wood chips make, huh? Abby and I finished covering the path areas with newspaper and soaked them with the hose (Abby's favorite part). Then it was just a matter of covering it all up. It really looks nice. If you look close, you can see two tomato plants on the right that up to this point have been in pots at Jess's parents' house.

Now we need to see if there is anything we can plant in early July. Check back for pictures once we get some things growing.