Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

It sure is Spring!

Things are going well here at Green Gambrels. Here are a few photos of what's been going on outside.

Mom and Dad planted our potatoes.


The kitties helped!
"Look out Ollie, or you'll get planted!"
A friend of ours gave us two more chickens...
This white one is actually a meat bird. He's getting pretty big! :-)
On one of our trips between New Hampshire and Maine we picked up some dog kennel style fencing, which we're using as a "chicken kennel".



 Dad planted grass in his orchard, and it is coming up nicely!
His trees are also growing well.

Now here are some photos from the inside....

The latest addition to our household is....
another cat!
You may get the idea from this photo that he's pretty small. :-) We don't know exactly how old he is right now, but he may be around 4-5 weeks. He's an orphaned kitten, and some friends of ours in NH were raising him but they didn't want to keep him, so we took him home with us.

He likes his milk....
 ...and his teddy bear...
 and, of course, all of our shoes. :-)

Here are some photos of the upstairs construction.
The bathroom is almost completely done. The plumbing was inspected and approved, and the only thing that remains now is for the trim and molding to be put up. The floor is down too, and it looks really nice!



So that's most of what is new around here. :-)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

More house photos

Here are some photos of the construction of the upstairs of the main house.

If you walk up the stairs and turn right, this is what you'll see...

My bedroom door is to the left, and Jessica's room is to the right. Jessica's room is the only room upstairs where we haven't changed anything! We've removed the wallpaper from my room and Mom and Dad's room, and, of course, in the "flower room" we've added the bathroom. Speaking of which...

Here's the entrance to the bathroom. We've added a skylight. The rectangle cut out in the wall to the right is where the mirror/medicine chest will go.

The shower...
The closet in Mom and Dad's room...
The closet in my room...
The long closet at the top of the stairs
And last but not least, our new back door in the breezeway!

Speaking of new things, Dad has finally gotten all of his trees planted in his orchard!

They're not much more than sticks right now, but hopefully in about 4 years they'll start producing fruit.
Our high-tech deer scaring system
Mr. Appleseed himself

Spring is certainly in the air and on the ground! Our garlic is looking pretty nice...
and so are Mom's pansies! (And don't forget the spiders! :-)

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Flowers of Garland



It is a balmy 82 degrees here in Garland! It is nice and sunny, and all of Mom's and Mrs. H's plants are looking very nice! Here are a few photos.

Pansies:


Daffodils:

Bleeding heart bush:

Lilac bush/tree:



And this hummingbird isn't exactly a flower, but here he is anyway!