Day 172: Venus Fly Trap

This past fall, Ash and I bought this Venus Fly Trap at Kroger.  It was a total impulse buy, but it's pretty cool.  I was going to take a picture of it back then, but forgot.  Since I didn't have anything interesting to take a picture of today, I decided to do the fly trap.

Day 85: Tomatos

Ashley and I went to the Farmer's Market today and bought a bushel of tomatoes (along with cheesy giraffe homemade dog treats for the boys, and slushie cider and kettle corn for us).  Then we went out to Mom's house to can them.

Day 73: Compost Bin

Ashley and I ordered a compost bin and have already started filling it up.  Hopefully we'll have some nice dirt to plant tomatoes in next spring.

Day 72: New Flowers

Went to Menards yesterday and bought the bricks, flowers, and dirt.  My mum and I put it together and planted the mums.  ":)

Day 64: New Shelves

One of the shelves that Ed and I built for my books, already filled with books.  This shelf contains most of my writing books.  We made another one just like it (and it contains my fiction books).  The shelves are rustic, which is just my style.

Day 53: Bird Houses

Ashley paints the birdhouses that she, Ed and Dad made yesterday.

Day 52: Arts & Crafts

Ed made the two on the left and Ashley made the two on the right.

Ashley has a bunch of wood left over from when we tore apart the splash deck around the pool (to make way for the new, way cooler deck).  So, she took a bunch of it over to 8 Mile in the hopes of talking the family into making bird houses for her backyard.  [This has a two-fold purpose.  1. To use up some of this leftover wood.  2. To give the birds somewhere to nest, so that they stop nesting in inconvenient places, like the garage, where they end up dying.]  Ashley and Ed designed the houses and Dad helped with some of the cuts and things.  I didn't build any houses, but I did give suggestions and I built tiny picket fences for them using popsicle sticks.

Day 47: New Recycling Bin

The new recycling bin arrived today and I'm so freakin' excited about it.  Previously we had a tiny green bin that didn't hold much of anything, so we'd have to load up Alcatraz and drive the recyclables to the recycling center, because Ash and I recycle everything that can be recycled.  Going to the RC kinda sucks, so we haven't been in a long time.  I was so excited when I pulled into the driveway and saw Ruby (the recycling bin) sitting next to Oscar (the garbage can).  I immediately filled the can with almost all our recyclables.  And they don't have to be sorted!  I LOVE our new recycle bin.

Day 38: Marigolds

Back in May I planted a few small marigold plants in the flower bed.  Some of the plants have stayed small, but not these.  They're huge.  I'm not really good at keeping plants alive, so it makes me happy that they've done so well.  Too bad they're not perennials.