Road Trip #1

Wow how July has flown by. Summer Vacation for the two of us is right around the bend. In a few days we are starting off on our first ever Road Trip.

We will be driving from San Jose, CA and ending in Seattle, WA. The plan is to take HWY 1 all the way up. Each day we will drive about 3 hours per day, stop, then explore the town.

We will also be visiting some family. In Portland, OR we will be having dinner with the OR Hoff's and then we will be joining the Casey Clan for a wedding in Seattle! We will end our trip in Seattle and then fly home. The luxury of renting a car for this drive.

We are going to try our hardest to blog along the way, but who knows what will happen. All I know is we are both ready to ditch our schedules and busy lives and hit the road.

Garden Time Again

Wow how time just really slips by. I'm not one to dwell on the past, so on with the blog. Bub and I have been super busy with life and trying to continue to make our home everything we want it to be.



It is now our tradition that May is the month where we over turn our garden and start he summer garden. It looks so bare and sad right now. We over turned our garden about 3 weeks ago. But the crazy CA weather is preventing any real growth. So we wait.

We really learned a lot after last years garden. While last year was super successful, as novice farmers we need to keep fine tuning our methods. This year we attempted to combat the squirrels a bit more. All of our seedlings have cages around them. We also refined our watering system to be more efficient and less wasteful. We also bought some heavy duty tomato cages, last year our plants were so big they made the standard cages tip over. We also took the time this year to make real garden signs. Last year we used little plastic ones and they were an epic failure.

While we wait for our garden to begin to mature and produce, it is nice to look around our yard and see all the major changes we have made. It is also nice to see that our roses and various flowers are blooming and just so dang beautiful.