Happy Mother's Day!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Vertical and Square Foot Gardening
Here's the beginnings of our garden this year. We decided to try out square foot and vertical gardening. Check out the source book here:
The author claims that the pounds of food harvested per square feet are much more than the "typical" gardening. This is the first time I've worked with such an organized garden space. I do say that I like it! We went with two really long 1-square foot rows.
So far I have planted 3 different beans, cilantro, sweet basil, Thai basil, Italian parsley, bell pepper, Italian pepper, serrano, jalapenos, Thai pepper, cantaloupe, watermelon, 2 different cucumbers, a few different tomatoes, carrot seeds, and probably more I am forgetting.
This is just next to the garden, the site of last year's jumbled garden. I still plan on prepping and planting in this "triangle" soon. Here will go the large and sprawling plants such as zucchini, corn, and pumpkin. Plus I will plant sunflowers and a zinnia flower bed.
Here are those said plants, just waiting for more dirt to dig into.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
My Birthday
Today is my birthday. It was a quiet restful day. My little baby girl is sick so she and I got to stay home all day. She took her longest nap ever, at least 2 hours, while my mom had the boys at her house. So, I got to watch part of a movie, The Way We Were with Streisand and Redford, browse the internet, trim the rose bushes, and have lunch with Jason.
I got some nice gifts this year including...
a Camilia Bush from my mom and Ray
a pretty green shell necklace from my boys
A fresh smelling herb basket from Gwen, Eric, and Annie
some wine accessories from my sister, perfume from my dad and Toni,
and a Starbucks card from Jason's mom.
... and from Jason, he is buying me some brand new baby chicks! You'll see them posted here soon after we get them. For now, I'll enjoy looking at our first batch of chicks we got 2 years ago at this post and this one.
I wrapped up the day enjoying this blue-eyed bathing beauty:
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Stockton Church Street is Rented
Here are "after" photos (never got around to taking before's) of our third rental house. We bought this one before Francesca was born. It took quite a while to get it finished and not too long to find tenants. Here it is... on to #4!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Our Easter Sunday Time
note: ok, so as I wrote these captions for the pics, they were lined up nicely in the correct spaces when I previewed the post but after posting, it doesn't quite match, oh well!
Easter Sunday was a nice day, the weather was perfect, the music at Mass was equally perfect (thanks Jason), the baby was quiet and snuggly at church (thanks Francesca), the boys were handsome and happy (thanks Zachary and Vincent) the food was grand and dessert divine, (thanks mom and Easter bunny) And of course we owe everything to JESUS! Thank you FATHER SON and HOLY SPIRIT!
Here we begin with Easter Sunday morning. The kids psoing with their Easter baskets.
Francesca's first Easter basket!
Vincent and Fresca having fun!
Zachary's cute smile warms my heart!
Francesca's sitting up pretty well!
Easter egg hunt at St. Michael's with
Easter egg hunt at St. Michael's with Sr. Angela directing kiddy traffic.
Kiddos in front of the altar.
Such a good big brother!
Enjoying the beautiful day in St. Michael's courtyard after Mass.
Got a pic with Monsignor Gus!
Look at those wii little smiles!Francesca holding her Easter lamb from
Gramma.
The Easter dinner table before.
And after.
We had deviled eggs, pasta, veggies, salad, bread, shrimp, wine, sparkling wine and cider,
The Easter dinner table before.
And after.
We had deviled eggs, pasta, veggies, salad, bread, shrimp, wine, sparkling wine and cider, banana-pineapple cake with cream cheese
frosting and CANDY.
Gramps and Fresca.
My bro.
The boys on a hunt for eggs.
Gramma and baby Francesca.
Gramps and Fresca.
My bro.
The boys on a hunt for eggs.
Gramma and baby Francesca.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Friendship Award
I received my first blog award! Here in blogging world, fellow bloggers award each other with praise and ask them to pass it along. I received my award from Maria at Living on Adrenaline & Grace
Maria is the talented singing jewelry making lady that got me into bloggin in the first place. Visit her etsy shop at: Singing Lady Bug Mama
After receiving this award, please follow these instructions:
"Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include the friends pic above and this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.
These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers."
Most of these creative ladies have never heard of me but a comment or two I've left on their blog, but I do enjoy checking out their inspiring and fun blogs on a regular basis. I award the following bloggers:
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