Sister Act

Late news from mid April

We had lots of action happening here in early spring as my sister Patty arrived from Seattle for a weeks visit. It has been about 7 years since her last visit so we had lots of new developments to go over. Both of us have had house remodels since then as our lives keep moving forward. We had a GREAT time going to the opera, doing a little local sightseeing, walking the neighborhoods and breaking ground on the spring garden. Sis was a HUGE help getting the iris, herbs, and lettuce planted. Not to mention getting the nails, concrete, rocks, wood chips, etc. cleaned out of the very construction damaged soil in the garden beds. We removed quite a few inches of debris and sticky clay soil before the new top soil was added. We went out and purchased a new tiller to make our job easier. Amazingly, we were both able to get out of bed then next morning :o) The hot tub at the YMCA late that afternoon must have helped too!

We slipped my sis right into Rowans 'couch potato' fleece lounging suit soon after her arrival. Thanks to our dear friend Nina, who turned us on to this piece of lounging heaven, we can now pamper our guests with the slip on sleeping bag. And, it makes one look so perfectly ridiculous that it is always good for a laugh.

No, this is not me, it is my sister. It's WACKY how much we look alike when she is wearing my clothes. Here she is as we were trying to move some of the clay out so we could add some good top soil to plant the iris.

Here are a bunch of the iris we had dug up out of the yard before the construction. We packed them in straw over the winter and here they are now planted in front of the new porch. We are not expecting many to bloom this year, but hope we can give you a beautiful picture of them next spring.

My sis at it again in the side garden bed mixing in some of the new top soil.

Here I am setting the blocks that will be the foundation for our rain barrels.

My sis again, this time preparing and planting the herb pots. These and the lettuce, onions, kale, tomatoes, etc. will be the only things growing in our yard until we get the house painted. The rest of the yard comes LAST!

The beautiful bed of lettuce and kale.

We really had a great time visiting, eating (never a shortage of that!), exercising, sightseeing going to the FABULOUS new opera 'Vincent' at out opera house and just relaxing and catching up on life.