Things are moving along

Well, we've been working on the house pretty much every weekend and many weeknights lately. We started by taking out all the crap we didn't want, then we moved on to buying a new light fixture for the dining room (lovelovelove), a new front door (lovelovelove even more) and a new garage door (well, I don't love it, but the old one was crappy).

We've bought new outlets and switch plates because the house has beige ones, and to me, if you have white walls, it looks better to have white outlets and light switches. We've torn down a lot of the spastic wall paper in the kitchen (it looks soooooooooooooooo much better!), and are having someone come to remove the rest and then paint the living room a sort of light-tanish-orangy color (still TBD).

I've done 1/2 of the work on new light switch plates with Gypsy's help, and hope to finish them at some point (so far, efforts have failed because I'm in bed by like 7pm every night that we don't go over to the house).

Also, last weekend was spent planting a vegetable garden! This house has gardens EVERYWHERE - and it's all perennials and flowers and stuff that I don't feel like taking care of, and so will eventually rip out. I'm starting small though, so as to not annoy the neighbors too much (they're overbearing, but nice). So, the future-mom-in-law and I tackled a large garden in the backyard on Saturday, digging up a bunch of plants that she wanted, moving others, and just plain tearing up the rest. I bought a tiller to help, thank god. But just to get the plot torn up and the tomatoes in the ground took the two of us like 5 hours. It was, surprisingly, nice to hang out with just her for a while (D and his father did stuff inside).

Then yesterday, I finished getting the rest of the plants in the ground and putting down newspaper and mulch, and then building a fence, with D's help. Pictures to come.

But as a teaser, it took 40 feet of wire fencing to surround the plot, and I now am the proud owner of a garden full of 5 different tomato plants (cherry, sweet 100s, early girl, big boy, pear), cabbage, broccoli, carrots, red, yellow and green peppers, basil, rosemary, chives, red onion, hot peppers, pickling cucumbers and strawberries. Rhubarb, dill, and brandywine heirloom tomatoes to come! :)