Painting

Because I knew I would have so much more free time after school ended I had to have a project ready to be worked on. So, I planned on painting the house. I had never painted a room in my life and was not expecting how exhausting it would be. I soon discovered muscles in my arms that I didn't even know I had. Therefore, I only painted the great room, kitchen, and hallway (mainly because it would have looked weird if I would have stopped early, which I desperately wanted to do). I got super lucky on paint because the week school was ending, there was an ad in the local paper for buy one get one free gallons of paint at True Value. So I was able to get my paint half off! I took about a week to paint it all and I was wore out by the end of that week so I have no plans of completing the house until I can completely forget about my first painting experience. But it did turn out good :)

Garden, Year 2

I have started my second year of gardening. I'm so glad we got our landscaping done so I could grow a bigger garden this year. We also put up a little fence to keep bunnies and Roxy out. Compared to last year, the garden is much bigger. I'm so excited that we got everything planted and I wanted to put pictures up of its progress so far. I packed my garden to the brim with delicious vegetables and fruit. On the left I planted strawberries, broccoli, 3 rows of tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, cantaloupe, watermelon, carrots, 2 grape vines and raspberries along the back fence. On the right side we planted onions, peas, 3 rows of potatoes, and six rows of corn. The pots have some herbs in them.We have already picked lots of delicious green onions and today I picked my first strawberry. We planted the corn a couple weeks ago and its coming up quick. The potatoes, peas, and carrots have gotten really big and the broccoli is coming along really well too. I started the cantaloupe and watermelon from seed in my window and transplanted them because last year the melons didn't have enough time to grow big enough when I planted the seeds.I also planted some flowers in the front of the house.