The cool thing about having your own blog is that you can write about anything you want. I run the gamut from About Kitsap to Yakity Yak, and anything alphabetically in between.
Today, it's tomatoes! Look at how well our hanging tomato is doing now that the weather's warmed up a bit. Actually, we're under a 'red flag alert" for fire danger in the whole state, which means it's warm, dry and ripe for forest fires. It also means warm nights and happy smiling little tomatoes. Jim and I talked about maybe next year doing some raised beds in the backyard to grow some of our own veggies. At least some green onions, peppers, and some other things we like. I am so happy with the hanging planter for the tomato that I might get another one for cucumbers. No real plan yet, but as I see more and more articles about tainted food, it's prompting me to do something to try to eat better.
I see that Turnip of Power is going to focus a little more on gardening, so I'm interested to see what he'll be writing about. His current post Garden Under Construction gives us a heads up on future posts. Make sure you click on the picture of his garden. It's spectacular.
So, what else have we been up to? Jim's been hard at it putting in a new bathroom window. That sounds pretty straight forward and easy, right? Ha! We're talking about the Wilkersons. Our catch phrase is: "Everything we know we learned the hard way". That means, in this case anyway, the whole job was more complicated because he had to 'release' the window from it's opening and then take off all the siding below it to make sure the wall wasn't damaged.
Some years ago we had a problem with carpenter ants in the outside wall because the soap dish in the wall wasn't sealed well and wet wood attracts those critters. Until Jim could really examine the wall we didn't know how much damage they might have done to any of the wood. As it turns out, it wasn't bad, but he did have to put in new car decking (structural tongue and groove 2 X 6's) under the tub. Of course, there had to be a rose bush in the way right where he was working too. I'm happy to report no damage was done to "Reba".
Our siding is lapped cedar and when he took it off the wall some of it broke (he anticipated that) and so he had to go buy some more planks to replace them. They don't make that kind anymore though, so he had to buy cedar planks and then router the length of each one to match the old stuff. Tedious, but it looks great. Actually, the new boards look better than the old ones as far as laying flat. So, there you have it. The window is back in, the boards are all primed and painted and the outside is done. We were surprised at how much the yellow paint had faded in just one year. Now, on to the inside of the bathroom.
