30 posts tagged “love”

 

Sunflowers are my absolute favorite and Matty left these on my desk today - they are directly from the farmers market and my favorite!

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:

 

 

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

 

Here I am on the other side.

 

 

Here is my matty getting some water for our veggies!

 

 

 

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

Tomatoes:

 

Looking down the row of tomatoes

 

Thats my shadow!

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

And some onions but they aren't even close

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

 

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

 

We are also going to have zucchini very very soon

 

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

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

 

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

 

 

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!

 

Tomorrow Matt and I celebrate our 6 month anniversary and the gift this month is IRON! 

I GOT THE MOST PERFECTIST GIFT IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!  I couldn't even photograph it ahead of time because the company it came from had it wrapped so perfectly... but I can tell you it was made in Japan. 

Matt loves Japan.  I love squares and worms and anything miniature and Matt loves Japan - thats how we do it in this relationship.  We don't love the same things but we love each other and that is what counts and what makes it work.

I can't wait to show  you what is in the box, but that will have to wait until tomorrow :)

Just got out of a meeting with my manager and found this de-lic-i-ous pair of PINK angora socks on my desk!  I think matt is sick of my feet being cold :)

 

Last Sunday was our five month anniversary, Matty wasn't feeling well (I think this is a theme - remember how he was sick at the 1 month?) and I was busy with the renovation so I didn't get a chance to post these until now.  I totally was not good at 4 months - it was supposed to be fruit or flowers, I was going to get him some tulip bulbs (but why give a gift you can't enjoy for a year), then an apple tree ( but he beat me too it and gave me pear trees!)  so I ended up giving him a pair of Carhartt overalls to help him plant the fruit and flowers - but I felt so lame I didn't even wrap it of photograph it!

But not this month folks - this month it was WOOD and I surprised him with 5 wooden golf tees and a gift card to play golf at Nonesuch - around the corner from my house!   He loves golf but hasn't played in years and its something he could do out here in the burbs :)

No fancy tag this month - can I even find my tag maker???? But I did use 5 golf tees as part of the packaging to indicate five months :)

  Next month: Iron - I go by this list  but I might start going by Wikipedia - except I have already deviated from that list in month four -hmmm all very confusing

these were delivered yeseterday, after a particulary rough weekend reno-wise, relationship-wise, life-wise.  they are gorgeous and now my cube smells yummy and people stop by to say hello!

as promised here is the post about my kitchen floor.
This is a picture take of me, laying down on the living room floor, shooting into the kitchen in the spot where we have already started to take the floor up...
i have detailed for you what you can see.  The subfloor that is fine.  The hardwood floor, well that is what is laid all over the house and will be sanded down once we can get to it.  It will be nice, don't get me wrong, there won't be any thresholds in the house and in a house this size it helps to gain space visually if you have all the same floor.  You can also see the top layer of linoleum, laid over the middle layer of linoleum - both of those have to come up.  What you don't see is the tile layer - its there in the darkness - between the hardwood floor and the middle layer of linoleum just waiting for get down our hands and knees and tear it up, piece by painful piece as we curse the people who lived there before us and wonder why in the name of molasses would they lay down tile and then TWO layers of linoleum.

My knees hurt already

In my previous post I mentioned that Matt and I went to Arrows with his Cronies(his friends) on Friday night.  We were there to celebrate Burak's birthday!!  I was looking for an excuse to wear the black dress I wore to the Christmas party, back when I had a wicked crush on Matt - he had already asked me out so I knew he liked me but I bought the dress to reel the fish in:)  I wore it again Friday night and while we were waiting for Burak to get to my house we took some pictures of each other - it was like the PROM!

Picture Matt took of me

that is the email I got back from my best friend when I sent her this picture - this is my house right now, this is what I am living in

 

its been worse, I shouldn't complain, but we are in a pretty rough spot right  now.  No electricity in some parts of the house, tools everywhere and no way to pack anything away because we are in the middle of the electrical part of the project.  But once the insulation goes in this weekend we might be on a downhill slide - maybe.

the answer to my best friends question is Matty.  Seriously, i am not sure what I did correct in this life but it must be something because he his my ROCK for this thing.  not only does he take care of me but he pitches in.  This weekend he ran the entire tag sale - toughed it out despite of the rain and got rid of EVERYTHING I wanted gone...This was our tag sale during a rainstorm on Saturday

 

I would not hold it against him one bit if he kept his distance from this whole project.  Renovations aren't for everyone, sometimes I wonder if they are for me.  But he doesn't keep his distance,  he is by my side every weekend helping out and he NEVER COMPLAINS which is what continues to amaze me and makes me want to be better because I complain alot and honestly I shouldn't if he doesn't.  It is the ALL AUDRA SHOW ALL THE TIME right now.  We went to dinner on Friday night to Arrow's in Ogunquit (pictures later tonight) but after that is was all my projects.  Once this is over we are going to have a few weekens of the all Matty show - doing whatever he wants.  I struggle with him being so helpful - I am just not used to someone helping me as much.  I try very hard to adjust and this weekend I comprovised about the kitchen floors as a way to show how I appreciate all the work.
I want tile floors he wants to try the  hardwood - so OK we will try the hardwood.  I will post some picutres of what I am talking about tomorrow.

 

 

So that is the answer - its Matty that is keeping me sane.  Friday morning while pulling down some of the walls in the cellar hallway 3 dead mice carcasses came down on me.   That was just about it for me, i can't handle dead animals.  I pushed on and was rewarded in the living room when we pulled a large dead rat carcass out of the floor boards. 

 

The one thing I can say about this renovation is that I am working harder on this one than the ohters, getting dirtier, working harder and learning more than in the past.

 

Posts to come - the kitchen floor (the plan!) and our night at Arrows!

anything miniature!!! Matty gave these to me Thursday - MINIATURE COLLANDERS!