Garden Updates

We're having such a busy summer! This weekend was busy with us going to the inlaws on Friday to visit my SIL and her boyfriend who were here visiting from Ontario.  DD stayed overnight with her friend in town.  Saturday morning was the Soapbox Derby for DS. After that, everybody came over for BBQ lunch.  Then DD spent the night at a local friend's house and DS had to get packed for camp.  Yesterday we drove DS to camp, stopping at Victoria-by-the-Sea for chocolates on the way! We pick up DS on Friday and then it's the Oyster Festival!  Busy, busy ,busy! :-)

The perennial gardens are doing great! Here are some picture updates:

 The transplanted rose bush is blooming!  It needs to be trimmed though, because it has a lot of dead branches.

 Here it is before:

Here's the pond side garden:

Here it is before when I transplanted the plants in June:

 Left side garden, quite overgrown:

 Before, with the lilacs blooming in June:

 Right side garden:

And before in June:

 Courtyard garden:

Before in June:

 Temporary garden:

Before in June:

 Veggie Garden. I don't know what happened, but none of my plants grew except a few lettuces and bokchoy which have now started to flower. Most of the flowers are some kind of weed. The wildflowers in front of the window did well!

Here it is in June:

Isn't it fun to see how much has grown in about a month? :-)

Friday-Front Room and Outside

I missed posting yesterday. HH was going to Charlottetown so I rode along with him. I went window shopping, of course to Cottage Industry. And I discovered another neat shop, Green Eye Designs.  I also went to a shop I'd been to before on University which I can't find the name of. I tried Googlemaps, but I guess it's a new shop. Anyway, they sell furniture, soap, pottery jewelry, etc.  Oh, I found it.  The owner said she had a shop in Victoria by the Sea so I looked it up there.  It's Emmett & Ellie's & The Soap Drawer. Fun day of looking at all the pretty things. Plus, I got to try out Young Folk and the Kettle Black for lunch and have a nice drive with HH!

We are still not in our bedroom yet. Now I'm  hoping for Sunday night.  DD is going to a sleepover tonight and then tomorrow DS will be gone at Cub Camp so I hope to get lots of work done.  Here's the progress:

Here are the new floor joists and the plywood temporarily sitting on top.

Here is looking thru to where DD's closet will be.  That 2X6 has to be removed.

Here, the closet space is all clear and the plywood fits right up to the new addition. :-)

 Here's a view looking toward DD's room.  The right side covered with plastic and a black sleeping bag goes into the kitchen.

 

 Here's the plywood notched out to fit in the doorway.  No more step down!!

And in case I haven't shared, here's part of our kitchen decor for the last year or so:

Lovely, isn't it!

I also want to show some pictures of the garden.  The lilacs are blooming!

Here's how it looked in April:

Here's the side 

 In April:

The side patio which will eventually be a garden.

 The courtyard, with our cat Lisa (Marie).  (So named because our previous cat was named  Elvis.  He had a sister named Bebe who ran away.  Lisa had a brother named Baba who also ran away. Bebe and Baba were both small darker cats.  Lisa and Elvis were bigger and lighter, very similar in coloring, almost calico.  We love Lisa!)

 Here's the courtyard in April:

Here's the right side of the courtyard

And again in April:

 Here's my temporary garden.  The big pink flowering bush on the left is a bleeding heart. I got it last fall from FIL.  It will look pretty in the side garden.

In April:

I really like the before and after pics of the garden. It shows lots of progress without a lot of work!

Here is the veggie garden I must plant today:

Ok, have a good weekend! :-)

(Update: I planted mung bean sprouts, scarlet runner beans, mesclun mix, pak choi, spinach and swiss chard. I realized we never got kale seeds, but I've run out of room in the little garden.  I moved a hosta in the front courtyard for DD to plant her mixed flowers. :-))