Sorry for the delay lately. We have done a lot of projects but the memory card the pictures is on is having some issues and I need to recover them.

Updates to come:

-Interior painting
-granite countertops

Thanks

So Shea has taken to the frisbee, heres a couple great shots

Not to be outdone, here is Peanut just relaxin and being Cute..

Uh oh, she spotted me!

phew, now were tired!

Those are some of my favorites…to see more pictures from that day, look at our Picasa album

Peanut and Shea 5-7-201

So, here it is in late April, its time for a gardening update at Rosey Disposition!

So far this year, we have done a lot, from the sod, to pavers (post still to come), and many things indoors.  Amongst all of this has been more gardening.  You may remember our last gardening updates, here and lastly here .  You may remember in the first update we did, our Avocado plant hadn’t made it, we have an update on that!

Lets start with our updated Veggie garden.  This year, we went with three versions of tomato plants, five cucumber plants (yes…5), basil and cilantro again, as well as two different bell pepper varieties, and we recently planted a greek oregano plant.  One thing you will notice, is that the rosemary has made it through the Florida “winter” and is huge! Feel free to flip to the old posts to compare this year to last year, but it seems to be doing better, mainly because we planted before the dead heat of summer and rainy season.

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It has taken a while to get this post up.  We initially resodded in the last weekend in February.

We received a few quotes to have our sod professionally done, but they both seemed like too much to pay for what we could do it ourselves for.

After much researching, the venture started on a Friday night, by renting a U-Haul pickup truck and immediately heading over to Home Depot.  At the store, we bought compost, a “bagster” (shown later), a wheel barrow and other miscellaneous things.  The big thing we did was rent a sod cutter, the type seen below, $90 for a 1 day rental.

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This will be the first of at least three posts about some gardening/landscaping which we’ve done in February and March, its been tough!

We had made plans for some landscaping and pavers to be done, but first, we had some LARGE ugly plants, which had to be moved.  We got quotes from some landscapers to remove them, and they wanted between $150 and $200.  I was trying to be stingy, so I figured I’d try myself…little did I know it would take hours and I would break a shovel along the way.

On the same weekend, we decided to move the fence on one side of our property up towards the street about 15 feet.  This would then give us 15 more usable feet in the backyard and our Air Conditioner would no longer be visible from the street.

Not to get too much into detail on a cut and dry project, here are some pictures of the plants to start.

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Since the day we first looked at our house, we knew that doing something with our floor was a must.  The funny thing is, we never took specific shots of the floor, but most of the 1st floor was a laminate (we soon found out by finding an old virtual tour of our house that tile was beneath it) and half was old disgusting carpet.  In looking to replace it, we didn’t mind the laminate that was on top of the tile, and before we knew it sat on top of tile, we even looked for a laminate to match it and extend to the carpet, but with no luck.  We then turned to normal flooring options, tile and hard wood.

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so its our first Christmas in our new home.  We went out, got an 8-9′ Frasier Fir, and all new decorations for it.  Here is a peek!

Wasn't in the house 10 minutes, the dogs wanted to eat it!

Oh Christmas Tree....

We actually had a lot of ornaments already, First Christmas we couldn’t use last year, some sports icons, initials, its a pretty full tree after buying some of the just colored ones.

LED lights and a blow up dog!

We again got LED lights for most of the outside. The lights outlining the house are BIG LEDS kinda like the old big bulb lights but are much more energy efficient (supposedly) and are much more durable.  I can attest to the durability since getting them up on the house was no small feat. The blow up dog was given to us and we love it, being we have the two dogs.

Another angle of the front

And finally, Peanut in her Holiday sweater.  With the short hair, she hasn’t enjoyed the cold weather this week, its actually going to be into the 30′s tonight!  So when we take the dogs for a morning walk, Peanut wears it to stay warm.

Happy Holidays and hopefully we will post more going forward!

Sorry we haven’t posted much lately.  With the holidays coming up, we have not had the time to blog about our doings.  We will try to get back to this shortly.

Thanks!

Here are a few pics of us carving a pumpkin for our house!

The design

Starting to cut it open

pumpkin guts!

stabbing in the eye!

finished pumpkin

oooh scary!

Back again, with more money savings projects.  It seems that is most of what we do, and I am 100% fine with that, it leads us to be able to do more fun projects later with more money!

Anyway, our AC was 15 years old when we moved in, but worked.  We actually had a home warranty company send a repair man out back in April to check on it and although he had to add freon to it, he told us it showed no signs of dying.

It also showed no signs of not eating our wallets on a daily basis!

Don’t understand the title?  Read on, you will understand by the end…

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