Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a fabulous Thanksgiving at the Casita with my sister and her family.

I frantically whipped up a few table decorations the week of. I'm pretty happy with how it all turned out!





The leaves are from the tree in our front yard. I'm told it's a liquid amber...

and this is especially for Bev:

Garden update

Really, really, truly! I am going to try to be better about updating. We're getting so many little things done each weekend that I would love to tell you about, but then the work week sets in, and blah blah blah, I don't.

Today; I'll tell you about our garden!

this is what the garden looked like in March, when we first saw the house:



it may look interesting, but really, they're all weeds:



then in August, Jack's mom came to visit. we put her to work:



she suggested we paint the tired beds red, and she was right!



then we started planting:



we have a really strong work ethic:



hard work pays off!



sugar peas!!! my FAVORITE!!!



then... it grew. this is from over the weekend. some stuff has been harvested already!




and my PEAS! OMG! soooo good:



the bok choi was harvested a few weeks ago. also, SO GOOD! bok choi, IN ACTION:




next on the agenda before the holidays is to get our in law unit up to speed so my parents can sleep out there and it wont creep out my mom.

hmmmm. it's worse than this picture (from the day we first saw the house) depicts:



stay tuned....