Happy Mother's day

For mother's day I got plants and the install of the plants. Then I went out and bought kiwi and raspberries and planted them along the side of the house.

Kiwi-one male and two female plants. Sage thought that was very interesting.
Three kinds of raspberries.

Guest Room

I decided to paint the guest room upstair with a Bohemian/ Bollywood theme. Some how the idea of an elephant on the slanted ceiling stuck in my head and with about 6 tries at getting the teal blue color right, I finally got one there. I am still working on the room, mostly I have a bunch of pillow to still make, but here are a few picture of the room so far.

The flash makes the room color look more orange (it is a darker orange in person)

Spring is here

Sage and I took a walk around the outside of the house tonight and took some picture of the yard.

The key lime tree is starting to come back. We were afraid for awhile that this winter might have killed it off. It has leaves in parts of it.

Key lime making a come back.
More leaves on the key lime tree, but you can see the dead stuff too.
Bleeding heart plant behind Clay's room. I love this plant, it reminds me of Virginia.
Better picture of the bleeding heart.
Fire plant in the same flower bed. I am glad to see something blooming in this bed, I have been trying for 8 years to get something to grow here.
Blooming blueberries
We will have blueberries again this year.
The aloe is in bloom too. This aloe came out of Kevin's yard several years ago.
A tree house for Topaz.
The grapefruit is getting huge, but is still not fruiting.
My poor olive tree, maybe one day it will bare fruit.
I have 2 huge rosemary plants and they both survived the winter. Now what to cook?
Pretty white flowering plant in the front of the house.
Mulberry tree going crazy. Can you see one of our 2 bee boxes?
More mulberries. Yum!!!

Not pumpkins

Well the vine outside the front door is not a pumpkin. It is some sort of gourd. I still think the vine came from a pumpkin seed from last year. I have picked 4 gourds so far and put them in a bowl in the kitchen. John wanted to pull the vine out of the ground, but I cleaned it up and am enjoying the interesting gourds.

future jack-o-lanterns

We have a pumpkin plant that has randomly decide to grow in my front flower bed. I am pretty sure that is wash into the flower bed from last year when we cut our pumpkins for halloween. At the beginning of the summer we notice about an 8 in long vine starting to grow. Well that vine is now about 40 feet long with more vines coming out of it in all directions. When I took these pictures about 10 days ago we had one pumpkin that was about 2 inches and growing, the next morning when I checked on it, it was covered in black fuzz and fell off the vine. Oh well. I did learn there are two different kinds of flowers on the pumpkin vine the female flowers have a beginning of a pumpkin at the bottom of them and the males do not (the male flowers only last one day.)

Male pumpkin plant flower

Female pumpkin plant flower

Sadly this pumpkin did not make it!



This vine is even longer now!!!

Good Eats

Here is a picture of the cucumber, tomatoes, pepper and limes from our yard.

Spring break working on yard

Friday morning we got up and made several trip to home depot to pick up flowers/plants for the yard.  John decided he could fix the broom.  I will post picture of edible plants in later blog.

From nov babies #3

From nov babies #3

From nov babies #3

From nov babies #3

For dinner Friday, my mom asked to go to Joe's crab shack out at the beach:

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From nov babies #3

From nov babies #3

After dinner we went down to the beach for a little while:

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backyard trail

Now that it is winter the kids and John decide to cut a trail through the woods in the backyard to the "stream". I have gone back with them a few times, but today Topaz and I went back with the camera. Also several other neighbors have cut trails too. The neighbor to the one side of us has build a "bridge" like contraption that the kids and John used today to cross over the stream to explore the woods on the other side.

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