Flowers, finally!

Stephanie and I went shopping for summer flowers yesterday.  We went to Alaska Mill and Feed and Bell's Nursery.  I got a cheery yellow and white hanging basket for out front, and a selection of flowers for the pots out back.  It should be lovely once I get everything in place!  :)  The next step is to figure out what we're going to do out front... It'll be a blank slate to play with!  

Big Nasty Bush Gone!

After a year and a half of walking around a huge Lilac bush just to get to the front door, we decided to tear it out and start fresh. So, on this Mother's Day 2008, we decided that it was as good a time as any to get started. Little did we realize just how big of a pain it was going to be just to dig out the darn bush. 

Happy Mother's Day Mom!

Shiny new appliances

Impulse buy... a new dishwasher and range.  When we bought our house, we had three mix-matched appliances.  We decided that, to add value to our house, we'd buy some new appliances now so we can still enjoy them while we live here.  And, the best part?  No more coils!  

April Showers bring... May flowers?

It's April 25 and we have 16"+ of new snow on the ground. This is not the kind of April shower we need to make our May flowers grow.  Yesterday we could see all of the grass in our front yard, and the recent sun and warm(er) weather had made some serious progress on the backyard. Funny thing... The deadline to have snow tires off is next Wednesday, April 30. It's looking like that might need to be extended a bit! Good thing we've been lazy and still have ours on. I'll give it this... It is beautiful.  But enough already! We're ready for some flip-flop and BBQ weather.

Mark and I are planning on doing some landscaping this spring/summer, so we're anxious to get started on that.  We ripped up all of the old nasty planter boxes in our backyard the other day, but the ground was still partially frozen, so we didn't get that far. Ahh, life in Alaska.