More progress

This could also be titled "damn, I've bitten off way too much"! :)

This weekend was another good weekend of work for us. It's the first weekend we've been home and it's been nice in some time so there was a lot of work to get finished.

Saturday, my wife mowed a bunch of the lawn (we may be a little early) as I got some plants out and ready to harden up a little bit for transplant. I know I'll need be purchasing some peppers and eggplants, but the tomatoes actually are looking like, well, tomatoes! They haven't wilted in the sun at all so far, so we'll see how this all works out.

We also mapped out our garden areas too, kind of making a plant as to what plants will be going where. We don't have as much garden space this year, but are attempting to garden with less space (a combination of square foot gardening and intensive gardening). I'll have potatoes planted by the end of the week, with onions in all ready. We'll also have at least two raised beds built by the end of this week, more if I have my way, in which we'll have a lot of our greens put into.

Sunday, uggh. I spent four hours up on top of the roof tuck-pointing the chimney. There were many bricks that were loose, both because of weather and because of a colony of bats who'd used the chimney as home base for many many years. I ended up using about 30 lbs of mortar on the chimney, and I think that much of what needed to be done was finished. We'll see how it holds up for my first attempt.

Someday, I'll try to get some pictures posted here too!