Richmond Trip

Two weeks ago we took a week-end trip to Richmond, Virginia for my cousin Patrick's wedding. He and Haley did a really nice job throwing a party and their group of friends seemed really close and nice. Everyone had fun dancing. We enjoyed the week-end in the bed and breakfast catching up with family and playing with Maggie and Ingrid. We also toured a really lovely botanical garden before leaving town Sunday and took some nice shots of ourselves!

Garden Update

I may not have been blogging, but things have been happening around here in the past few weeks. Here are some pictures updating everyone on Azra and Miran's progress on the garden. They planted a ton of stuff from seed in cute little cups and once they all sprouted, they planted it in the raised bed. Some stuff is still in the little cups and hasn't been planted yet. Also, the pavers have gone in to mark out the access path and the upright posts for the fence are all in. So more planting and the actual fence are left to install. The bottom picture shows how fast things are growing.

Garden Progress

Here are a series of photos from today showing Miran tilling the garden and then the exciting delivery of 9 cubic yards of top soil blended with compost. Our friend Mark generously was here to help (the other guy in some of the pictures is the truck driver). The pictures are pretty self-explainitory, I'll just mention that the first time the truck dumped the driver forgot to unchain the back, so it had to be lowered and then took some time to dig out the dirt behind the door and release enough pressure to get the chains off. After the truck left it took Miran and Mark half an hour or more to level out the dirt, but almost of all of it landed inside the frame so that was good. It was nearly 90 degrees here today so it was hot for me just standing there watching them (I did shovel a little).

Vegtable Garden

As many of you know Miran has been working on a master plan for a vegtable garden that is quite elaborate. He made huge progress on building the frame for the raised bed today. Its 12' x 24' - and this is a scaled down version of the first plan. I sat out there with him for a few hours this afternoon grading papers and hopping up every time he needed someone to hold something. Azra held things steady for him later while I made dinner.

Below are three pictures taken today showing his progress as well as one detail showing the amazing strategy he developed for securing the landscape timbers in place with rebar.

Azra !

And now Azra's room is really complete because Azra is in it!

She arrived on Thursday night and finished unpacking her suitcases today. I think she found room for all her stuff in the dresser and closet. So far we haven't done anything other than go to costco, but I guess that means she is just folding into our normal life!