Garden Update

As I mentioned last week, here is a garden update.  It needs work and probably will have a different location as we figure out the yard but this is it as of July 8.

You can barely make out the pole beans climbing the trellis but they are there and a little yellow looking so I gave them some liquid Miracle Grow.  Oh for the compost we left at 213.  We learned that you can't transplant garlic, it has all died.  But, I have ordered some for our consumption and to plant in the fall so we will hope they have a good crop.  The rhubarb transplanted very well.  It is starting to fill the grave Pat dug quite nicely.  The pots near the house are also doing well.  We have been eating lettuce from the bathtub, also the basil.  Lots of blooms on the tomato plants so we will keep our fingers crossed.
The men were here Monday to do the first coat of the foundation parging.  They said they will be back later in the week for the top coat.  Next we will be able to start landscaping.  A mixed blessing!  We don't plan to tame too much of the wild but there is still a lot to consider.  I have been rereading permaculture information but I expect there will be a considerable amount of trial and error.

As I said last week the pantry freed the shelving in the dining room so here is where we are at now.

We had another trip to Ikea yesterday, a long day.  We left at 7:00 am and arrived home 15 hours later - at midnight. The distance interestingly enough is almost exactly the same as the drive to Saskatoon.  A little more looking for the kitchen, we will get it ordered this week.  But also some purchasing of shelving for my studio, mattresses for the bunk beds and more stuff I won't go on about.  The car and the roof box were full.  Unfortunately most of it will stay in the boxes and go into the garage.  No activity upstairs. The mudder has at least one job ahead of ours on the list.

We have decided to get started on the kitchen ceiling this weekend.  I am really hopeful that it will go smoothly.  It involves taking down drywall, increasing the supporting beams for the second floor and reinstalling drywall.  Which means drywall dust.  A large part of me would just like to leave it as is but I know the extra support is important and we are moving the light fixtures so it is much easier to take down and reinstall than to patch as much as we would have to.  The other part of this is having a nonfunctioning kitchen.  I am not thinking about that yet.  Ordering pizza is not really an option.

Pat was up early one morning and caught this fellow having breakfast.  A male American Goldfinch.

We were out for a short bike ride one gorgeous evening and took this picture of a flax field.  I am including it because next time I will post one of it in bloom!