The Summer Lull

With summer finally here, I am finding myself short on completed projects, with less time, more yard work, and other random distractions, and lots of sailing.

For indoor projects this summer I am planning three.  June will be a shoe rack, this one is started and I am very excited to get the next piece of the entry way squared away.  Then I have a shelf to make for the half bath and one for the full bathroom.

the half bath shelf will go behind the toilet.

Outside I also have work to be done, I want to put in a patio, and a permanent composting .... site, it will be a patio floor with two u shaped beds for year to year rotation.  

This is the future site of a patio

Oh then there has been the composting conundrum, the barrel on is no good, it is less than half full and it has collapsed the legs making it difficult/unable to rotate. So for now the compost is going in a pile between the two pallets. The new site is to the right where there is dirt.

I have more planting to do and although it is a bit late I have some plants I want to grow from seed to go in the front yard and between the grape vines.

This past Monday, Dad and I traveled to White Water to look at apartments for Rachel.  It is an interesting experience to go look at a place and then have your sister and brother-in-law have to decide if they are going to rent it.  They plan on renting for a year before buying a house so that they have time to get a lay of the land, and figure out where Nik job is going to be.  Can you imagine sending someone else to look at an apartment, see a few pictures and then decide to move in?

I mentioned this to a senior engineer that I work with and he said that he had done this with his brother, but they were buying a house together.  It was before digital photos so he had to get the picture printed, presumably at a one-hour photo, and then mail them to his brother.

The garden is growing, so far I have only harvested greens and herbs.  I read an article that talked about keeping track of how much produce you harvest out of the garden and compare that to the cost in the grocery store.  I like this idea and am considering building something into the side bar, but I don't know how and I'm not sure if anyone else would think that impressive, or even interesting.