I stopped off at Tracy Lumber Saturday afternoon to pick up the 2×10s, and had time this afternoon to put together the frame for the raised garden bed. Next step: get topsoil delivered.
I snapped a few pics of my helper and our finished product. Click on a thumbmail to see the full-size image [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Garden construction commences
Happy Birthday Thomas – the Grand Finale
I don’t remember ever having month-long festivals in honor of my birthday, but that seems to be the case here. After all the other stuff we did for his birthday, we took him on an overnight vacation.
Instead of going somewhere distant, Kath got us a room at the Ramada in North Syracuse ’cause – [...]
Happy Birthday Thomas – Part… whatever
Thomas had a party at school, a party at home, a cake at Nanny and Poppy’s. But wait, there’s more…
To celebrate his actual birthday we went to Johnny Rockets tonight – his grub of choice. When we got home he opened presents. Featured items were Mouse Trap and a Leapster handheld game [...]
Easter weekend wrap-up
It’s getting close to my bedtime, so I won’t drone on – I just wanted to post a few photos from the weekend.
Thomas spent the second segment of his “week of birthday celebrations” eating ice cream cake:
On Sunday morning, Kath and I took the kids for a walk around Rockland Lake. It was FREEZING, [...]
An epic thought
This is one of my favorite times of year. Is it because spring is nigh, and the birds are chirping? No. Because the days are longer, and the sun shines from early in the morning until late at night? No. The reason is simple: the four-hour extravaganza created in 1956 [...]
Happy Birthday Thomas – Part 1
The boys didn’t have school today, so Kathleen put together a small birthday party for Thomas with a few of his buddies. She set it up with a John Deere Tractor theme – lots of green and yellow.
There were tractor printouts for them to color, green t-shirts with iron-on JD decals they decorated with [...]
Our first foray into composting
I set up the Eliminator on the edge of the side yard[1] today. We had been using the simple, unbounded “compost pile” method over the winter, but I figured since I have this resource, why not use it?
Here is a shot of the Eliminator in all its black, monolithic awesomeness. And if you [...]
Spring, schming
For those of you who thought I was exaggerating yesterday when I mentioned snow, get a load of the view out our back window this morning:
Happy Birthday, Erik!
Here’s a birthday message, typed by your buddy Daniel – just for you!!!
Happy Birthday, Erik
I Want To Know How Your Birthday Is Going
I Also Want To Know How You Like Your Present
And I Hope Your Having The Best Birthday Ever!
On our way to a successful garden… as soon as it stops snowing!
That’s right. As I sit here typing, there is a light dusting of snow on the ground and the flakes are steadily falling. I’m into snow and all, but this is a bit ridiculous.
Bit I digress. Back to the topic at hand…
I took a trip to Ballantyne Gardens last week and met [...]
