Spring Catch Up

Crazy how time flies!   Is this how it going to be as I age lol!?   

We are working endlessly it seems to get the house and yard and she shed all at least done enough to take a breath!

We had done some landscaping in the back by the patio and with all the rain we have had it just washed the grass away! Soooo we replanted and  drowned out a second time so now we will wait on that until a different gutter system is in!

The vegetable garden is in and quite muddy and soon the weeds will be out of control! 

The photo of the small bush above is one we put out in front of our house. I love how the leaves are variegated !

My flowers are doing really good! Planted a few new ones in front of my craft shop! Hope by end of summer I can have some photos of that progress! It is getting there, just a slow process and I never knew how much stuff I had errr have !

May need to do some serious cleaning out again!

 Happy New Year! Happy Valentines and soon Happy St Patrick's day and Easter! Since I cannot seem to get on here as regular as I intended and hoped for I will post those greetings now!

It has been such a nice open winter here, A bit concerning for agriculture and moisture, but I am loving the no blizzards! Our grass is starting to green in areas and as I worked out in the garden last week removing some old debris, I saw I have Irises and strawberries peeking through!

The house project is still not completed, but we did get a few things completed, Cabinets in the master bath are in and full! We built a small folding station, so I now have a place to fold laundry as well and that is total game changer!

We have a new granddaughter...she was born Feb 13, and such a blessing to the family!  Her big sister is such a helper (she will soon be 6) and loves being a *BIG* sister! 

We have not seen much for the contractors, though they did come and put in some lighting in our back patio, and did some of the steel work as well, but could not complete the job as they measured wrong and ran short on steel.... We are still waiting for the laundry room to be mudded and taped, the patio to be complete and garage to be done as well as gutter system in place.

 

Oreo is taking a break after running and chasing birds in the tree line!

No one can convince her she is not a bird dog!

Beauty is always  my little side kick in the garden!

Strawberries are waking up

Garden is coming alive with irises

This photo was taken first week of March looking up to the house from the garden

February view

I put this project out on tic tok quite proud of that sliding barn door!

Master bath cabinets

Stel on! Back patio! At least when its a light rain we can still sit outside!

Lighting is in!

Contractors doing their job in Minnesota February!

Four Months Of Fun and Ventures

 I am not sure where this last four moths ran off to! But I do know they have been super busy here!

Shouse Update:  Contractors have the shed doors in but the rail system needs to be placed yet, Certainly makes the yard look like we care about it!  Still some storm damage clean up to do but  we are getting there and can actually see light at  the end of the tunnel!

Bean Harvest, Hot and dusty

Over looking the home place

Grain cart in waiting, 

Oreo and Beauty took in the beautiful Fall evenings we had sunning themselves

What gardening I did manage to do this year  yielded well, I harvested total 60# of spuds

She shed in the making!! Plants added to beautify the area!!

Sunsets and Red power!

End of harvest season

Contractors working on pouring the apron of garage

Finally finished and the forms pulled off!

Kitchen cabinets are being filled!! Love that calico Hickory!

Trying to come up with ideas how to display various sizes of ribbon. Not sure I like this...so its  just sitting there for  now, Lot more ribbon to go but until I come up with a good way to store/display Im not getting too carried away!

Open to suggestions!!

Anyway, we have remained Healthy and just keep plugging one day at a time around here trying to find our new normal!!

Wishing all in Blogger land a Very Merry Christmas!!

August is sooo hot

I do not know about the rest of the country, but I think this is one of the hottest August I have seen in state of Minnesota!!

We have not had much progress on the Shouse itself but we did make progress on an outdoor shed and some work on the yard and I got a good start on my studio

We took a small fast weekend to ND to Medora   We enjoyed the pitchfork steak fondue and then took in the musical. Always a good show and a good time   I will try by the weekend to get some photos up to share. 

I love the vibrant color of these sunflowers!

Overlooking parts of ND

Beautiful rock

Part of Medora

This reminds me of gardens of childhood

Medora Musical