someone suggested that maybe i should post something that wasn't boring. thanks, ma. this one's for you. posting has been hampered severely by the sudden and synchronized freak-outs by both home and work computers. they seem to be less hostile these days, so let's give it a try.
we've been busy working in the garden, building steps and then covering them up with piles of dirt. the dirt piling was more a circumstance of succumbing to overwhelming lack of desire to move said dirt from the staircase to the empty area up the next level. it kinda sucks. big-time.but after a while it's kinda nice to actually see the 12 stairs that you built, so we loaded up the wheelbarrow, set up a ramp and with curt pushing and me pulling with a rope from above, we dragged every last bit of dirt up. it took all day saturday and i don't even know how many trips we made.
ta da!
view from above:how it connects to other set of steps and plateau. we're so close to finishing the nature-trail near the house. eventually we'll extend it behind the studio up the hill and make a path going up the hill. but not now...
sunday we were supposed to rest but got too antsy, went and picked up some trailing rosemary for a ground cover and as lauren says, "a meyer lemon tree followed us home". but here's the nature-trail fruit picking rundown (as soon as the trees start to bear fruit...): start up the trail, pick some figs, then a lemon and a pear, continue to walk to the cherry tree, then snatch up some plums and on the way down grab a nectarine, an apricot, and maybe a persimmon if you feel like it. finish it all off with a juicy orange....not bad, eh?

yesterday was the one year anniversary of moving to the cabinhouse. we weren't actually living inside yet, but we had the tent...

new projects, new growth and new problems with the computer...will upload more photos when the computer loves me again.

thanks momma!

what's been going on round the cabinhouse? we spent another weekend with the shredder. this time, thankfully, it mostly worked. it died in the last 1/2 hour and we ended up with a small pile of leftovers, but nothing too overwhelming.

we took down one side of the rusty fence that was blocking access to the canyon. i'll take some photos, haven't had any reason to show off that part of the yard, thus far.

we spent this last weekend in the insane heat, working towards finishing the nature trail and building a puzzle table. it's built, but my lazy behind hasn't finished painting it. more on that later.

and i got a tummyache from bob-doggin' all of the carrots i pulled from our happy little veggie garden...
i promise more interesting photos next round. we have 2 very exciting visitors coming up for the weekend and i'm sure there will be much to document...

oh, i almost forgot. highlight of last weekend (well, one of many...) dave franklin trying to catch the baby possum (with curt's goading) in our backyard. boys aren't always the brightest, but they're definitely lovable...

this was supposed to be the weekend of tree shredding, round 2. ha. the wood chipper ended up busting after about 1/2 hour. it happened last time, too. but last time we got a good 8 hours of work. bummer.
so curt got busy with the telescoping chainsaw and cut down some threatening looking acacia trees. they grow at speeds incomprehensible to the average brain and look like dinosaur necks. unbelievable. they're pretty, but too wobbly for us to sleep soundly at night.

friend jay peter coyote (dressed as jacques cousteau) came over and finished up the work he didn't complete in his 4-day trek to the death lodge by taking it out on the trees.