finally a look at the present state of good ol’ garden plot N10:

as you may be able to tell, we are having a bit of a challenge with a few of the boxes on the left, but we have discovered the problem and are just going to start over in them with some fall plantings. let’s just look at one of the boxes that is doing well, shall we?

there is plenty of yummy stuff growing:

i even did a little knitting to help transport the bounty from garden to kitchen:

do you see the crazy mess that is the garden plot just behind where the bag is hanging in the above picture? our garden-neighbor planted a few things in april and never came back. it has weeds as tall as 5 ft. and is now officially ours. she has finally given it up and we were able to take it over. here is how it looked…

…until we spent three hours this morning cutting it back, pulling stuff up, saving the carrot patch and mowing.
stay tuned for further exciting tales of N10 and N9

the title pretty much sums up all we have been up to lately.

we have had our old boiler replaced and central air conditioning installed over the past 2 weeks. though we are thrilled with the results, especially considering the icky weather on its way, we were not prepared for the amount of dust the job was going to create:

so quite a bit of time was spent monday and tuesday cleaning out dust from every imaginable spot.

in addition, we harvested our first crop from our community garden plot:

and tom attempted pickles from scratch:



they turned out to be a bit too sweet for our tastes, but i do believe there will be more pickles in our future.