If you are handed it, you can handle it.

And now back to the garden

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:49:28 -0400

I didn't post anything this week, after the large hurdle we got over last weekend with the floor I took some much needed time off this week from things I have to do... but now its time to get serious again.

The house is moving along nicely and the kitchen is put back together. He is now working on the sanding and taping of the living room and we will be ready to paint no later than Sunday the 20th, which means I could be back in the living room, electricity and all by August 1st! I think that was our goal.

While we have been busy in the house Matt has been busy in the garden. Right before I had to send back the fisheye and 100mm lenses (*sniff) I grabbed some shots of what we are growing.

Here is the garden in its entirety - the only thing you can't see is the pumpkins:

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Here I am just inside the fence watching Matt water our cauliflower:

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Here I am on the other side.

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Here is my matty getting some water for our veggies!

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Its hard to tell what stuff is because its all just green, lets get closer!

Tomatoes:

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Looking down the row of tomatoes

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Thats my shadow!

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Here is some lettuce, we had this for dinner last night

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And some onions but they aren't even close

This is the whole area of lettuce and peppers, and matt hauling water

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We also had squash last night, those plants are growing like crazy and I bet we start having squash a couple of nights a week now

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We are also going to have zucchini very very soon

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Corn is on its way up but I don't think we have that til August

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And the potatoes have flowers and they will die in the fall, that is how we know to dig them up

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These are my sunflowers! Thanks to Matt's fence I might actually see them bloom this year!

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Well I hope you have enjoyed the tour of the garden, you will see another house post maybe in the middle of this week and I might actually shoot some images for fun this weekend!

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Matty's garden: up close and personal

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:19:19 -0400

I rented some lenses for the wedding I am shooting this weekend because I want to make sure it ROCKS! They came yesterday and this morning I went out to the garden to try them out.

I LOVE THEM!

I rented a Fisheye and now all you fine folk could get a view of the entire garden. Matty is doing such a great job! Those posts you see - those are for the fence Matt is putting up to keep the deer out - maybe I will have sunflowers yet!

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I also rented a 100mm Macro lense. It means I can be faraway but still get close up!

This is our baby tomato - we have a few:

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This is our baby summer squash - we have TONS of these starting:

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These are our peas - they are ready to eat this weekend!

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This is one of the sunflowers - I can just see its gloriousness already!

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This is some herb I am growing but I can't remember what - anyone know?

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Matt's mother and her husband came up on Sunday - they brought us this lov-e-ly plant! I used both lenses to shoot this.

First the macro:

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Then the fisheye

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I LOVE THEM!

And these are two pictures I shot of clothespins just because I like them:

For those wondering out there (and its really only Erin) I shot all of these entirely in manual and shot B&W in camera - ROCK!

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Come back around noonish for a post on the renovation - lets just say my hands hurt from holding a hammer :)

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news from the garden

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:51:06 -0400

its been a slow week in the homestead, my dad just came back to work today, not much he can do until we get the insulation this weekend. Don't worry I have still been CRAZY busy, just on the photography side :)

The good news is that it rained this past week so the garden has seen some growth - lets report on that.

My first order of business is the ant hills. I photographed these two unusually large and complex anthills - I wonder if they are going to be a problem.

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I seriously didn't think potatoes would grow - maybe that is because I had never grown them, maybe it was because to plan them you put whole potatoes with the eyes into the ground. But this week they did sprout up and I think the leaves are the most beautiful of all of the vegetables plants, they grow in a little bouquet.

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The beans are growing like crazy - they came up in 7 days - it was fast as lightening and soon the Japenese Beetles will be here - I gotta get Matt to figure out how we are going to get rid of those ecofriendlystyle

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Here is baby bean plant just about ready to stretch its body out of the ground, but for right now its still curled up snuggly in the dirt

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and I was surprised to see some of my tomotoe plants have flowers, but one of the guru's at work told me this was normal

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and because right now no post would be complete without something from the renovation here is a picture of the temporary lightswitch my dad put in for me today - now I have light going up my stairway. But as you notice the lighting of this picture is crazy! That is because that one hallway light UPSTAIRS is the only light i have to light the entire living room - i had to use a flash and it still wasn't enough.

August 1st people - eye on the prize!

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latest additions to our garden

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:36:39 -0400

yesterday was the farmers market outside here at work. Matty left me a message about some sunflowers that he wanted. I went out looking for them and I found these - they aren't the exact ones he had seen but sunflowers are sunflowers and they are going to look great against the back wall of the garage. I think Matt hates the plywood that is on the back of the garage right now that is a place holder til I can find a window - this will cover them nicely.

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In other news the cucumbers still can't go in the ground b/c of the cold but they are growing like gangbusters! I have some pickling and some slicing. I will make pickles again this year!

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Garden Update

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:56:02 -0400

The garden was planted this weekend - here is the role call

20 Potato Plants

5 Eggplant Plants

40 Bush Bean Seeds

14 Tomato plants (cheery, yellow, black, and red)

30 Onions

12 Head of Lettuce

3 Summer Squash Plants

4 Watermelon Plants

6 Corn Plants

3 Zucchini Plants

1 Row of Carrots

6 Pepper Plants

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Rosemary

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Still left to plan

3 more Watermelon Plants

12 Cucumbers (pickling and slicing)

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We will also succession plant some of those crops so we have food into the fall.

For reference here is my garden post from this time last year:

Once we have all of those crops frozen and canned we should be good for veggies this winter! Here are a few shots out of the garden:

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farmer matty

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:13:24 -0400

matty came home last night from a weekend at his grandparents and went to work planting the pear trees. For those of you still waiting to see what I got him for our 4 month anniversary he is wearing them in this picture! I kinda blew this anniversary. I had ideas on what I wanted to get him and then never got it executed and then he got me these really great pear trees!

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So I got him something he has always wanted - a pair of overalls to work in the garden! The way I see it he is using them to plan fruits and flowers!

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I think that is sweat rolling down his cheek....

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ext month the traditional gift is wood.... I am going to be a bit more prepared for that!

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by the way...

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:34:22 -0400

our radishes are up!

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some of the garden is planted...

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:29:05 -0400

um this weekend was p-nutty busy! I had two session this weekend and while I haven't even gotten to the pictures yet I do plan on finishing up the couples session tonight - so I promise something on that tomorrow.

When I got home Saturday nightI actually went out to work in the garden. This is one of those areas where not having cable/TV comes in handy. If there had been a TV in my house on Saturday then I would have come home dog tired from the session and plopped down in front of the couch for a few minutes of mindlessness. But since one wasn't there I went home, put on my overalls and Matt and I went outside to work. I planted 2 rows of peas, a row of beets, a row of radishes and two rows of lettuce. I told Matty that by May 24th we can have a lettuce and radish salad. He told me that the dates where usually general so it would be around then but I held fast to the timelines listed on the back of the salad package.

I felt good after doing that work, Matt cooked us up some yummy veggies and then we had Martel's ice cream. It was a seriously perfect day all the way around.

Sunday was dinner at his grandparents where I also learned out to play 83 - its a card game. And here is what I learned. Matt has the same demeanor/face at work that he has in competative games - I am not going to say its my favorite face - he gets all serious and rolls his eyes alot and is not tolerant of mistakes. Geez, I was just learning how to play the game but when I played a card that he wasn't happy with his face told me so!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know - playing games with him isn't as much fun as I thought. I am going to bust out Clue the next time he is over and see how that goes:)

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garden update

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:21:11 -0400

its been a few weeks since i posted and I thought it high time. Mainly the reason I haven't posted is because my garden is just in growth mode. It looks the same day after day with the vegetables getting bigger and almost ready to eat but nothing that exciting YET!

I do have some tomatoes... i am at least a month behind I figure, like the rest of the folks in the state of Maine. There is only one big one I see and its green and not even a hint of red... but at least I see them.

I let my broccoli go to long and it went to flower. It never looked right for eating.. it never looking like broccoli I see in stores and then the next thing I knew it flowered. I planted some more in my winter garden so lets see where that goes.

I ate my first bowl of peas the other night. It was absolutely delicious and fantastic and an absolute chore! You have to pick them, then shuck the, them clean them. I think that you have to grow a TON! and I mean rows and rows and rows in order to get anything real that you could can????

I also had some radishes and lettuce last night. 2 summer squashes were picked and will be eaten this evening!

My watermelon and pumpkin seem to be doing ok... i have itty itty baby ones so that is fine - but the pumpkin won't be ready til December at this rate!

In other exciting news the subject of this blog will be changing or augmented come this fall. I will be renovating my kitchen so stay tuned for some before, during and after shots as well as lots and lots of commentary. For now you can take a look at this picture of the cabinets I have selected.

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I have also selected a Corian countertop in the color of beach glass with a Corian sink!
YAY ME! I can't wait for my new kitchen!

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some things grow wild!

nobody@vox.com(audralynn) — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:37:17 -0400

I found some blackberries on my property today.... i wonder what I am going to do with them?

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I also have some beautiful tiger lily's

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and another of the tiger lily's

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