- squeezing meyer lemons straight from the tree.
- fresh flowers from our camelia bush
Feb 21, 2008
we teamed up with our neighbors, who have just as much overgrowth as our little cabinhouse, and rented a wood shredder last weekend. figured we'd end up with enough to use as some nice mulch for the backyard. we spent saturday cutting and pruning in preparation for the big day on sunday...
got some new blades for our reciprocating saw. they're actually called "the ugly". awesome.
this is one hunk of wood that i saved. thought it would make some nice mini-cutting boards. in germany they have little individual sized boards for breakfast. thought it would be really neat to have some made from our own trees.
after cutting away all of the insane overgrowth and dead branches we found the nicest tree in our front yard. kind of like something from the jungle book with big swinging branches...
we took out the crazy bush at the side of the house and we're thinking about putting in some blackberry bushes...ohhh...pies and jams, oh my!
We had the driveway, sidewalk and backyard completely covered in branches. It was kind of amazing how fast the shredder ate everything up. 
and now the arrival of the shredder:
did i mention my wonderful brother came for a weekend visit to help us out? thanks ev!
empty tarp:
tarp with some shredded wood.
filling up:
really full tarp
exhausted brother:
exhausted jay:
curt climbed some more trees while we took at the trees that had fallen over our backyard fence:
exhausted boys:
tasty dinner:
oh, and two last things after all of that. curt found a little snake in our backyard. we googled it...it's a red belly garter snake. we put him up by the redwood trees.
okay, last thing. we had a lovely little birdhouse in our tree and noticed that the squirrels had taken up residence, so on martha's advice (yes, that martha...) we moved it to a pole away from the trees. 
funny thing though, we'd wake up in the morning to find the roof knocked off and unusual amounts of birdseed missing. looky what we found!
got some new blades for our reciprocating saw. they're actually called "the ugly". awesome.
this is one hunk of wood that i saved. thought it would make some nice mini-cutting boards. in germany they have little individual sized boards for breakfast. thought it would be really neat to have some made from our own trees.
after cutting away all of the insane overgrowth and dead branches we found the nicest tree in our front yard. kind of like something from the jungle book with big swinging branches...
we took out the crazy bush at the side of the house and we're thinking about putting in some blackberry bushes...ohhh...pies and jams, oh my!
We had the driveway, sidewalk and backyard completely covered in branches. It was kind of amazing how fast the shredder ate everything up. 
and now the arrival of the shredder:
did i mention my wonderful brother came for a weekend visit to help us out? thanks ev!empty tarp:
tarp with some shredded wood.
filling up:
really full tarp
exhausted brother:
exhausted jay:
curt climbed some more trees while we took at the trees that had fallen over our backyard fence:
exhausted boys:
tasty dinner:
oh, and two last things after all of that. curt found a little snake in our backyard. we googled it...it's a red belly garter snake. we put him up by the redwood trees.
okay, last thing. we had a lovely little birdhouse in our tree and noticed that the squirrels had taken up residence, so on martha's advice (yes, that martha...) we moved it to a pole away from the trees. 
funny thing though, we'd wake up in the morning to find the roof knocked off and unusual amounts of birdseed missing. looky what we found!
Feb 17, 2008
so the posting schedule has slowed a bit. funny how that happens, eh? lots of stuff going on with life in addition to our little project here. work schedules get busy and other events get in the way of blogging....i'm actually real behind in updates.
remember our gas project a few weekends ago? after the whole pilot light fiasco and pg&e coming out, our oven decided to take a break from our kitchen life. it actually was kind of a jerk and just flat out gave up on life. lucky for us, we bought that dang home owners insurance plan and it covered our pissed off oven. the guy came out and spiffied it up quite a bit then taught curt how to take everything apart to clean it. and who can resist dismantling a vintage wedgewood?
he got it all shiny and gussied up. even the griddle works now....
what else? we finished up the moulding in the hallway...yes, that's a "tennis elbow" band that curt has around his elbow. poor guy's been all beat up. first the numb hand, now the elbow.
we hung out in the sunshine and painted, painted and painted more moulding and baseboard. we did laundry, hung out in the sun and our neighbors' dog came over for a visit.
we're done save for our bedroom. we still haven't figured out what we're gonna do with the bedroom floors so we're waiting with the moulding. we were thinking cork tiles but it's not as cheap as we thought and we're not so pleased with the whole fading-factor thing it has going on. we kinda got turned on to linoleum...thinking about it....
next weekend, we started in on a new project.
a massive endeavor...it started with our small meyer lemon tree and spread across the entire yard. 
we inherited 3 meyer lemon trees but one of them was dead, one was a nasty black bush of a tree and one was just overgrown beyond belief. 
we took out the dead one, trimmed down the nasty black bush to let some sun in and pruned the overgrown one.
we're hoping the lemons like the attention and fatten up a bit. the tree is damn prolific and they're tasty but almost too tiny to even deal with....
remember our gas project a few weekends ago? after the whole pilot light fiasco and pg&e coming out, our oven decided to take a break from our kitchen life. it actually was kind of a jerk and just flat out gave up on life. lucky for us, we bought that dang home owners insurance plan and it covered our pissed off oven. the guy came out and spiffied it up quite a bit then taught curt how to take everything apart to clean it. and who can resist dismantling a vintage wedgewood?
he got it all shiny and gussied up. even the griddle works now....
what else? we finished up the moulding in the hallway...yes, that's a "tennis elbow" band that curt has around his elbow. poor guy's been all beat up. first the numb hand, now the elbow.
we hung out in the sunshine and painted, painted and painted more moulding and baseboard. we did laundry, hung out in the sun and our neighbors' dog came over for a visit.
we're done save for our bedroom. we still haven't figured out what we're gonna do with the bedroom floors so we're waiting with the moulding. we were thinking cork tiles but it's not as cheap as we thought and we're not so pleased with the whole fading-factor thing it has going on. we kinda got turned on to linoleum...thinking about it....next weekend, we started in on a new project.
a massive endeavor...it started with our small meyer lemon tree and spread across the entire yard. 
we inherited 3 meyer lemon trees but one of them was dead, one was a nasty black bush of a tree and one was just overgrown beyond belief. 
we took out the dead one, trimmed down the nasty black bush to let some sun in and pruned the overgrown one.
we're hoping the lemons like the attention and fatten up a bit. the tree is damn prolific and they're tasty but almost too tiny to even deal with....
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