It's been a hardwork weekend here at 1602 W Springfield. We've had beautiful weather - think 80s and sunny - so we decided to put it to good use. The first project for the weekend was to hang up Abby's swing, which turned out to be a bigger project than we had anticipated. Adam wanted to put in new hardware for hanging it because the old stuff was pretty rusty, and it turned out that the chain on her swing didn't fit on the hooks that were there. But since it was so rusty, it was REALLY hard to get out, and then the new hardware wasn't quite the right size so Adam had to chisel out some of the wood to be able to get everything set. But eventually, we had the swing, and Abby's definitely been enjoying having that out in the yard.
The other big project was digging out a space for a garden - woohoo! That was quite the ordeal itself, because first we had to get rid of some "landscaping" (and I use the term loosely) behind the garage. At one time, it had been a rock garden, but by the time we moved in it was completely overgrown and neglected. There were two or three layers of rocks surrounding the area, and then all sorts of rocks, pieces of concrete, broken flowerpots, and one thing that we think may be a speed bump strewn throughout. We also had a nice little maple forest growing in there that had to be dug out.
But after a lot of work, we got it all out, and dug up the whole length of the garage to make a great garden! I'm not sure what all exactly we'll put in there, but we have a couple of weeks before it's time to start planting. Before that we'll need to edge the garden and put up some kind of fence to keep out the bunnies, and the dog.
We gave Abby her first taste of lemon meringue pie this evening. I don't think she likes it quite as much as her daddy does yet!
