First Snowfall

The backyard looks so peaceful with the fresh snow.

The green house was fine in the snow.  Hopefully it makes it to the spring!

Leaves

I feel like there is an invisible force field that surrounds our front yard.  There is barely any leaves on it while you can see the yards across the street are absolutely covered!! 

Planning ahead

Last year we purchased Christmas lights to decorate our house but we never hung them because it was too cold (and we hadn't bought a ladder yet).  Since today was a beautiful day Craig decided that we should hang out Christmas lights now so that we won't have to do it in the cold!  I think they look pretty good, although it feels a little ridiculous planning for Christmas already!

Winter is coming

There was frost on my sun flowers this morning.

I am impressed at how nice they look considering it is getting so cold at night.

Corn!!

Tonight we had a feast of garden corn!!! 

It was delicious.  

Soon

The corn will be ready to harvest soon!

Gutters

On the weekend Craig cleaned out our gutters and adjusted the eaves so that they will flow properly.  Previously they were angled away from the drain spout!  So we now have nice clean non-level gutters.  

Large clump of grass that was growing up there.

Craig carefully minding the sunflowers while adjusting the eaves.

Wall tiles

We have finally gotten around to fixing the bathroom wall.  Many months ago when we had to remove the sink to replace the faucet we accidentally tore some paint off the wall.  After long deliberations we finally decided that wall tiles are the best solution to this problem.

Before:

After:

 

And just for fun here is the step by step!

Mixing up the mortar... wish they would have had the pre-mixed in stock.  

This was definitely the hardest part.

Getting ready to put the adhesive on the wall.

I only made a little bit of a mess during this stage.

It is actually only two "tiles" but each is made of of the smaller ones.  

Made this project super easy.

Applying the grout.  I definitely made a mess during this step!  

Sealing the grout.  You have to paint it on and not let it dry on the tiles.

At this stage I was still being super careful and patient... 

eventually I just started slopping it on and wiping off the tiles.

It may not be perfect, but I am quite proud of myself. 

Garden Update

We are going to have so many squash!

The sunflowers are now taller than the window!

Some sweet peas that I planted in May have magically appeared out of the weeds in the front flower beds!  

We need a fence

When looking down our back alley we are the only house on the block that doesn't have a fence around our yard.  This didn't really bother me before.  However, it has become apparent that random/shady people are walking through our yard on a regular basis.  Unfortunately some one stole our time lapse camera from the back yard last week!  I am very disappointed because it has been capturing the garden growing for months now and I was looking forward to making the video for the blog.  Just a few days later a particularly shady fellow happened to be walking by right when I was opening the office window.  We had a very awkward chat and then he ran away!

We were planning on getting a fence in the future, but these recent events have made it our next priority with the house.

On a related note I have been quite jumpy recently about activity in the backyard.  This morning I was quite startled when I saw some movement from the kitchen out of the corner of my eye...

... but it was just a sneaky bunny.