Raspberry Smiles


Greening our yard
June 8, 2009, 6:34 pm
Filed under: Around the House, Family, Green

We’ve had compost pile in the way back for the past 2 years.  It was kinda a pain.  Ranger would on occasion gorge himself on pineapple or something too gross to be discussed.  Plus, it was hard to mix.  Rob surprised me with a composter.  He used points from work, so it was FREE!!  Not too much fun moving the compost pile and puttting it in the bin, but now that’s the dirty works done; we love it.

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I’ve been wanting a rain barrel for a couple of years.  It just didn’t seem right to pay retail, and the town we live in doesn’t offer them like EVERY surrounding community.  I bought one at WholeFoods yesterday.

A blank canvas

A blank canvas

Primed black???

Primed black???

Base coat of Bahamian Blue

Base coat of Bahamian Blue

 

Blue hands and feet!

Blue hands and feet!

We have an awesome plan for painting our rainbarrel!  As soon as we finish, I’ll post more pictures.
PS.  The paint came off hands, feet and hair suprisingly easily.  It was worth it for 20 minutes of family fun painting the rainbarrel.


Just for you, Catherine
June 8, 2009, 9:47 am
Filed under: Uncategorized

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Boys and Trees and Logs
June 8, 2009, 9:45 am
Filed under: Kids

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They can’t actually climb up there yet, but they ask  ”Mom put me way up high in tree”  So I do, and they sit there feeling tall.  Noah is interested in types of trees.  Harrison is learning not to peel the white bark off.  It’s just so much fun.  We had a birch tree in our backyard until my Dad cut it down for our swimming pool.  I remember peeling off the bark…

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Believe it or not that woodpile was not originally there.  Rob and I stacked it more to the right of the picture behind the real big pine tree.  Noah and Harrison over the past couple of weeks have moved the wood pile; and there were some pretty big logs!  Don’t worry – the pile’s been tested and it’s safe as safe as it can be for little boys to climb.  Suprisingly, we’ve had no log injuries.

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Except for the fire pit.  Sadly, our firepit is no more.  Seems it couldn’t stand up to Noah.  We’re looking at a metal pit; it might get dented, but wouldn’t break.