7th Anniversary

"When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything."
Maxim Gorky

Canyon-August 1998 

Red River, NM- December 2000

Port Aransas - July 2001 

 

Dallas - August 2002

 

 Dallas - 2003

 

 Amarillo - July 2005

 Mexico - July 2005

 Oklahoma - September 2006

 

Lubbock - October 2007

 

 Hawaii - August 2008

  

 California - January 2008

Lake Ouachita - March 2009

 Austin - August 2009

 

 Ruidoso - January 2010

 

Lake Allen Henry - June 2010

  Bay City - June 2010

 Austin - June 2010

Dallas - December 2011

 St. Thomas - June 2012

Happy 7th Anniversary!

Vegetable Garden Week 3

We are so ecstatic about how the garden is growing.  

Above are the cucumbers and okra.  Heath built the cucumbers a trellis since they were wrapping around the okra.  Overnight they had climbed and wrapped around the wire.  

 The squash is our favorite.  The crookneck variety is huge and we have 4 baby squashes coming in already.

 Tomatoes have grown a bit.  One of the plants has about 6 tomatoes on it. 

  

Zucchini

  Baby squash!

Dog House

 Last summer we started building the dogs their dog house.  This weekend we finally put the finishing touches on it.  We are so pleased with how it turned out. 

 Bandit inspecting the progress and Moose sticking his head out of where the air conditioner will go.

       

 

                          The roof was HEAVY!                                                                                                                                

 The dogs enjoy it very much.  It has a heater, an air conditioner, and a web cam so we can access them from our phones/computer when we are out of town. 

Our Vegetable Garden

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The talk of us building a vegetable garden started after Heath got a juicer for Christmas.  Our favorite juice is called a "mean green" with kale, apples, celery, cucumber, and lemon.

   Then we also started eating pretty strict Paleo in January so we eat a lot of vegetables.  Heath built a garden with his best friend Martin at their house about a month ago so they used that same plan for ours.  It came together pretty quickly and then we made many many trips to Lowe's!

 We did a mixture of sand, soil, peat moss and manure.

 Hopefully the landscape screen keeps all the bermuda out.

 Moose was so helpful.

 Mixing

 No idea why he is upside down.

 Finally planting!  This was our favorite part.

 We planted zucchini, squash, okra, green beans, tomatoes, and cucumbers. 

 Moose is going to keep all of the birds away from the tomatoes. 

Heath built us these lattice's.  It's pretty hot and dry here right now so once the plants get established hopefully we won't need them any longer.