THE CABIN HOUSE

old horse-shoe found in our yard

2009 accomplished list:
- master bedroom carpet picked and installed
- interior molding and baseboards installed
- dangerous front yard devil acacia cut down and turned to wonderful mulch
- backyard leveling and landscaping, part 1
- front yard landscaping, part 1
- new vegetable boxes, again (this time with drip irrigation and critter protection)
- tried out some an exterior trim color....most likely changing it this year
- repainted the retaining wall
- new potting bench from reclaimed wood and scraps!
- puppyhund elli!
- *ahem*
- stairs and aussichtspunkt (look out platform)
- foundation and water collection tank
- new front porch, gutters (!) and painted the front of the house

And that brings us to January 2010. We have a long list of projects for the coming months and at this point we're still working on collecting materials and scheming. It's going to be another tight-budget year but we've become pretty good deal-sleuths and material-recyclers. Necessity breeds innovation, after all.

As anxious as I am to get back outside, I'd like to spend some time pulling together the inside. We still haven't recovered our couch, or figured out how to deal with our books, though we did finally hang a few pictures on the walls. We continue to downsize to make sure that our small home doesn't burst at the seams from too much stuff.

Looking forward for 2010 and our home, I've made myself the following promises: I will make more time to enjoy gardening (not just killing our plants), take a few classes to achieve the previous promise, continue to explore new recipes and make sure to invite our friends over more often to enjoy the fruits of the aforementioned goals. Oh, and the couch will get recovered!

I'm rooting for 2010. It has some mighty big expectations to live up to but I think it can rally...