outside projects

Remember all that wood I got from the Amish guys for my garden? Well, it was treated, so I couldn't use it for the garden. I decided we should make benches. Fortunately, I have a friend who owns a circular saw so we could cut the wood.

The wood needed for one bench:


I looked at lots of pictures of benches online (there's a complete blog devoted to benches!) and made a few different designs. Here's the winner. It's nice and sturdy. We made 2.


The rest of my wood pile. What should I make with it???


Here's my garden again. This time with chicken wire cage and nylon trellis for my vine plants. If you look hard enough, you can see some the sprouting plants :)

Here are my tomatoes--they will go in the garden after there is no threat of frost. I'm not quite sure when that is. soon i hope!


The beautiful, and lovely smelling lilacs in our backyard


yours truly


my partner in crime
(our backyard and driveway are in the background. Mark and the kids were at our neighbors house in their sandbox)


Noah and Sal