Eh, the trying-to-rent continues. =/ We thought we had a family ready to go, we'd done the background/credit checks, made up the rental agreement, and had an appointment to swap the security despoit and keys, but they backed out on us. We've got the ad up again, and have had a couple people come look. Some of the situations are definite no's (Six adults packing into the house, and you can't get us social security numbers for half of them? Ummmm... I don't think this is gonna work.), but we'll see.
In cheerier news, we got a long, low bookshelf thing to put behind the couch and by the doorway, so that we can have a better place to set stuff when we come in, and more storage shelf space is always a good/needed thing.
We also put up curtains in the bedroom! They're just some plain sheer Ikea ones, but we did have to cut and hem them to the right size. This may sound like no big thing to you, but I've always had this really... shall we say, strained relationship with textiles. My talents lie more in the realm of paper, pencils, and Wacom tablets, and fabric is just capricious and uncooperative in my eyes. But armed with scissors, a tape measure, and this totally sweet iron-on hem thing that the curtains came with, we now have functioning fabric window covers!
And also, and also, Nate found these really neato steel "things" to hold wine bottles, all metallic curvy, and he got them mounted to the kitchen wall tonight. Pictures of all this is possible later.
AKC
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Trees and Yardstuffs
Last week, during vacation, Nate and I sat down at a coffeehouse and drafted up the Master Plan for the Backyard. I don't have it on me, but maybe we can scan it later.
The reason for this was that we vaguely wanted to go to Home Depot and buy something vaguely tree-like, but once we got the new baby peach and plum trees home, we had no idea where to put them. I was thinking sort of in the back? He was thinking sort of in the front? Both of us were totally open to the sides as well. You can see the problem here.
So we went the whole nine yards, getting a to-scale diagram of the yard ready to draw on. In true planning fashion, we listed out values, goals, and constraints... and then utterly ignored that list and drew trees, pergolas and koi ponds wherever we deemed fit on the page. There's a lot that isn't nailed down yet, but we did figure out that we'll have our row of fruit trees along the side, stretching back to the garden, and we were able to plant those first two yesterday.
It's been a verrry long time since I planted a tree (blah blah you make planet earth cry etc etc...), and I was rather taken aback by the pruning you're supposed to do. Apparently we coerce trees into growing through death threats. We'll see how these guys do... Planting trees is slightly frustrating since you know it's going to be years before you really get the payoff, but it's good stuff nonetheless.
AKC
The reason for this was that we vaguely wanted to go to Home Depot and buy something vaguely tree-like, but once we got the new baby peach and plum trees home, we had no idea where to put them. I was thinking sort of in the back? He was thinking sort of in the front? Both of us were totally open to the sides as well. You can see the problem here.
So we went the whole nine yards, getting a to-scale diagram of the yard ready to draw on. In true planning fashion, we listed out values, goals, and constraints... and then utterly ignored that list and drew trees, pergolas and koi ponds wherever we deemed fit on the page. There's a lot that isn't nailed down yet, but we did figure out that we'll have our row of fruit trees along the side, stretching back to the garden, and we were able to plant those first two yesterday.
It's been a verrry long time since I planted a tree (blah blah you make planet earth cry etc etc...), and I was rather taken aback by the pruning you're supposed to do. Apparently we coerce trees into growing through death threats. We'll see how these guys do... Planting trees is slightly frustrating since you know it's going to be years before you really get the payoff, but it's good stuff nonetheless.
AKC
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