The back of the house. We've also put in a nice "kitchen" garden here, which is oh-so-much more convenient than the ones that are 1/8 mile across the road! This garden gets a little more love. |
The Sacred Heart is alongside the driveway, and at the edge of our strawberry beds. Here's hoping for fabulous strawberries next year--this year just wasn't productive. |
David and the kids built this playhouse and "play garage" (fancy name for bicycle storage!) in our front yard early this summer. They're missing windows, doors, and paint yet. |
Upper level of playhouse. Anyone want to camp out here? |
From the upper porch of the playhouse, looking down at the front of the house |
The front yard is semi-flat-ish now... We did build on a hillside... Still, it sort-of works for kickball and batting practice, so we're happy with it! |
We're still struggling mightily to get our gardens to produce here. We've added a lot to the soil and mulched heavily. We have about 6,000 square feet of gardens here, but our much smaller plot in town way out-produced these. We still hope, and work real hard at it! In lieu of canning many vegetables then, we were thankful to at least put up apples that we'd gotten other places. Here, the fruits of a busy canning weekend. |
Pretty sunset to the West |
One of the new basement bedrooms |
Second basement bedroom |
Both rooms have built-in closets, which double as dressers and bookshelves too. |
Third basement bedroom |
The canning room has already undergone a remodel. David removed a wall and enclosed an adjoining hallway to make it larger. It's quite full at the moment, albeit mostly with previous years' canning. |
Just-installed game shelves outside the basement bathroom |
I scored an 8-foot chalkboard on Craigslist for Free. (Yay!) It gets a lot of use--while demonstrating math problems, or reviewing Latin conjugations. Or sometimes gets all drawn-up with artwork. |