Monday, May 16, 2011

May 7th

May 7th, 2010 - Duluth MN

May 7th 2011 - Tehachapi CA

Not that it has been totally warm here yet either. Actually I think MN has had more warm days than we have lately... our neighbors here said they had a bit of snow in their backyard yesterday morning and we've had to cover our plants quite a few nights since planting them because of the cold and frost. 

Monday, May 9, 2011

Mother's Day Weekend

Friday night, Gabe and I drove in to town and met Adam after work at Home Depot. We bought a ton of flowers and some fruits and veggies to plant. Our landlord had cement poured last week, so there was a nice spot against the house where we planted a bunch of flowers. So Saturday, Adam and I spent a few hours working out in the yard.


Adam built a frame for a raised bed to grow some fruits and veggies. I guess groundhogs can be an issue, so we had to put some wire mesh on the bottom.


Flowers are all planted!

New Patio

Veggie & Fruit Garden! Some tomatoes, yellow/orange/green bell peppers, jalapenos, banana peppers. Also trying some a few strawberry plants and a watermelon plant... We'll see how those go :-)

Gabe has his own table out on the patio! This was his birthday present from us last year, but we finally got it set up this weekend. 

Saturday night, I went to a scrapbooking night at the store in town. Got a few pages done. Wasn't super organized ahead of time - haven't had a chance to uncpack all of my craft stuff. But it was a good time.

Sunday, we just spent the day getting stuff done around the house. Adam made french toast and bacon for breakfast - my favorite! :-) Then he worked on putting together a bookshelf and a nightstand for Gabe's room. I got some other random stuff picked up / unpacked / put away. For dinner, I made homemade pork egg rolls and beef lo mein. Everything turned out pretty tasty. :-)

Butter

A pound of butter comes in boxes like this. Same design, but different shape. When I first saw them, I would have sworn they were just half pound boxes with only 2 sticks of butter in them. But it is actually a pound with four sticks.

Four short, squaty sticks of butter. They are about 1/2 the length of regular sticks, but are larger around.

They look kind of silly on my butter dish... :-)

(I know, I'm a dweeb for doing a post about butter. But I just find it funny. Plus I love butter)