How did it get to be Christmas already?

What a summer it was!

The garden expands each year, and I find myself almost living inside that wonderful fence, with little Koukla who loves to hang out in the garden with me.

The biggest news about the garden happened in April:  I got a real greenhouse and we replaced all the wood chips in the pathways between raised beds with good old-fashioned sand.

First the greenhouse!  This pic was taken before I moved a ton of pallets and supplies inside.  We added two rain barrels to give clean chlorine-free water to all the seedlings, and they love it.  It only took 4 years to get this, and not a moment too soon.  Love love love my new greenhouse!

Painting the mud room

Painting the Mud Room

Sherwin-Williams has always understood me.  They know that if they send me a coupon for 40% discount, I will be in their store in nanoseconds.  They also know that, when we had the house built, I left two rooms unpainted (just basic ceiling white) because there had already been too many colors, texture, shape, size, pattern, etc., decisions to make and my decorator's brain was exhausted.  Those two rooms would have to be painted another time, by me.  

The coupon comes, Bruce goes out of town, and I get to work.  What a horror of a room to navigate in with ladders, paint buckets, and drippy brushes!  But I can do this!  YES!

The mud sink (aka Mutt Sink)

Wood you do the same as I wood?

Short Post.  Bought a Lumber Mill this past winter in order to make use of some of the many logs that we have at Bufflehead Pond Farm.  Most are trees that have fallen in a storm or were dead but standing so I cut them down.  After buying the used Mill, my neighbor and I bought about 20 large Washington Redwood trees that had been cut down to make way for a new fire station on Bainbridge Island. 

So I started with this:

And then we did this

And then we got this:

So I could make this

More projects coming