Outside At Last

Posted on Apr 27, 2004 at 12:03 PM in Uncategorized

On a gloriously warm Saturday a few weeks ago, Jeremy and I joined our neighbors out back in emancipating our yards from winter’s hold. Pulling weeds, pulling annoyingly long perennials (see pic), filling trashcan upon trashcan for Wednesday morning’s waste removal… Good stuff. There is much to be said for living next door to FRIENDS and the wonderful investments of a shared community, especially when your houses are as close as ours are! We’re looking forward to planting our garden soon. This year our houses (affectionally dubbed “the Shire” — will it stick?) will share garden plots and divide up the fruits of our labors come warmer months. Last summer we were swimming in cucumbers and tomatoes, so I think the shared garden is a brilliant idea.

18 Comments

  1. bethany Apr 27, 2004 4:43 PM

    Hey RT– I don’t know if it’s just the computer I’m on, but the second photo is overlapping your text and I can’t read it.

  2. Jeremy Apr 27, 2004 4:53 PM

    Hey Bethany, I adjusted the image margins. How’s it look now? Btw, what browser are you using?

  3. rt Apr 27, 2004 8:16 PM

    sorry about that… in my overzealousness to include two pictures, i dropped all concern for readability! hopefully jeremy’s fixed the problem.

  4. Bethany Apr 27, 2004 8:35 PM

    I was using IE on a Mac in the computer lab at the Ross. Looks fine now on my powerbook, also running IE (yeah, yeah, I don’t have Safari or the OS beyond 10.1.5. Yes I know I need to get with the times).

  5. dena Apr 27, 2004 10:10 PM

    ummm… maybe i’m missing it, but i don’t even see a second picture. am i going blind????

  6. rebecca Apr 28, 2004 7:12 AM

    uh, yup, dena’s going blind… nah. we deleted the first photo last night. maybe i’ll include it in another post. : )

  7. Heather Apr 28, 2004 11:04 AM

    Seriously I have no idea who you are. I made my way to your website via the Dunham’s. BUT – is that Brook T. from Nebraska in this pic’ holding the big stick? – you grow some serious weeds where ever you live.

  8. rebecca Apr 28, 2004 12:20 PM

    ha ha! actually they’re not weeds – they’re crazy perennials that were pretty much taking over our yards. and yes that is brook t! she’s one of my awesome next door neighbors (see http://www.theonegrand.com for their house blog). small world! who are the dunham’s? (i have no idea who they are.)

  9. Jeannette Apr 28, 2004 8:54 PM

    Hooray for gardens! i already have green tomatoes ;) Gotta get them in before August heat and bugs kill them…literally.

  10. kerri koenig Apr 29, 2004 10:39 AM

    Would you be open to an exchange program….i.e., your cucumbers for a delightful bunch of my wildflowers? I’m not a veggie grower, but I got some floral eye candy.

    btw, i missed gratitude monday, but today, right now, i am grateful for this blog and the related blogs! Also for a washing machine that works, the strength and energy to do the wash, and the irony of the label that says, ” reversible garment. wash in cold, inside out.”

  11. rt Apr 29, 2004 1:19 PM

    an exchange program would be wonderful! i LOVE fresh flowers in the house. welcome to the blog, kerri. : )

  12. lindsay Apr 29, 2004 3:14 PM

    oh, geez, i hope my mom doesn’t start getting on the blogs… (just kidding)

  13. kerri Apr 29, 2004 7:06 PM

    sorry, i will sit quietly in my corner now….

  14. bethany Apr 29, 2004 7:44 PM

    i think MY mom is cool. i don’t know if lindsay is embarassed of hers or something…what a lame daughter she is. ;)

  15. rebecca Apr 29, 2004 8:30 PM

    by the way, heather, thanks for signing in! i enjoyed looking at your site on midwifery. i’d love to have a midwife when i have children, but since i have type 1 diabetes i don’t think it’ll be possible. ah well.

  16. Jeremy Apr 30, 2004 1:04 PM

    Welcome Kerri! Please don’t stay quiet. We need more sophistry and less sophmoristry. Just kidding girls….in all honesty, the younger crowd around here definitely seems sharper and more insigtful–and less burdened with angst and cynicism–than most of their ilk.

  17. Bethany Apr 30, 2004 4:25 PM

    No one here understands me and my angsty teenage woes. *cries and returns to listening to Dashboard Confessional on her headphones in the corner*

    ;)

  18. Jeremy Apr 30, 2004 4:32 PM

    …well, except Bethany, of course. ;)

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