Brad and Janie’s Blog

April 18, 2009

square foot gardening

Filed under: garden — stewartparis @ 12:37 pm

Garden advise from Mel of “square foot gardening”. After many trips to home depot and misc. garden centers, we have mix and boxes built. Today I spent the morning out with the seedlings to ‘harden their hearts”. They will go in the ground soon. rhubarb is in the ground up front and we need to build boxes for front blue berries. The seeds below are for several types of greens, peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, many tomatoes, cilantro, onions, rosemary, thyme, catnip.

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April 9, 2009

New Curtains

Filed under: construction — bradandjanie @ 6:59 pm

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Janie loomed wove weaved curtains for the downstairs bathroom.  Now the neighbors can’t watch us pee.

The Hedge

Filed under: destruction — bradandjanie @ 6:58 pm

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We removed the hedge last weekend.  Well, Janie removed the hedge last weekend.  Ok, actually our neighbor removed the hedge last weekend.  Janie wanted to do the digging, but he sort of took over.  I watched for a little while, but I had a frisbee game in the afternoon and it takes me almost an hour and a half to ride to all the Inwood Park…

Raised Beds

Filed under: destruction, garden — bradandjanie @ 6:57 pm

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Janie tore up all the ivy in our teeny tiny backyard to make space for our raised beds.

April 7, 2009

Bulbs

Filed under: garden — bradandjanie @ 11:00 pm

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In March, flowers popped up all over our front yard.  Flowers we didn’t even plant!  We are master gardeners.

New Kitchen Floor

Filed under: construction, done! — bradandjanie @ 10:59 pm

 

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Janie decided the kitchen floor was way too gross.  She did all the work.  I (Brad) did a little troubleshooting and posed with the nail gun.  Stewart helped too.

Dana & Dan

Filed under: Uncategorized — bradandjanie @ 10:59 pm

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We visited Dana and Dan in February.  They’re way ahead of us in the chicken department.  I’m pretty sure Dan’s holding Clucky there.  Clucky is a very bad chicken.  This photo was taken almost 2 months ago.  By now Clucky was probably eaten by a weasel or a marten or Dan or Dana.

 

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Also, Dan and Dana do yard work on a much larger scale.

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