Baked & delivered. They came out soo good!

I have a real need right now!

Did some cherry picking yesterday at one of Dan's coworker's houses. They climbed the tree for me and I stood at the bottom picking up the all the cherries that dropped on my head! O.o

A wee friend come to visit while I'm pitting cherries

Cherry Brandy ... or is it Brandied Cherries...?

Then to end the day I experimented! Espresso honey shortbread! The batter was fanominal and the baked cookies just as good. These are so going to market drizzled in chocolate! My non coffee friend even liked them! They aren't as delicate as traditional shortbread and are super soft!

Espresso shortbread

I felt like crap today so I left work early & came home to nap in the shade. Surprisingly hard to do considering I have huge trees in my back yard! Seems to have helped. I'm no longer nauseous!

Looking good!

The boy wants this new toy! S2k!

 Cleaning up the yard some more after work. Clearly I like to work a 10hr shift then come home & sweat!

I had to rake the rocks back so I could pull up this plastic just to dig in the "clay"! OMG! I ended up mixing top soil with it for the Cannis Lillies I got.

Lilly bed

 Then finished taking down that ugly trellis that kept no critters out! What to do with all of it though.

Good buy ugly trellis!

Got rained on when we were running errands for the coffe shop!

2nd plantern all planted

Started a soap stamp

This wood sucks. I totally sliced my thumb! It's going into time out!

Relaxing ride with the guys!

We just want a wireless sound system! Is that so much to ask for? 

Apparently yes.

Our fishing wire wasn't short enough it seems ... so it broke on us...so we had to redrill the holes

Clean up! We still need to paint but at least it sounds & looks good!

Greetings this fine morning!

Time for an update on my homesteading-ness ... well urban style I guess. The farm shall come later! I apologize up front, this is going to be an image heavy post.

So it started with me actually sleeping in! O.o Unheard of to those who know me. For some reason I've become an early bird (probably working at the coffee shop). Then once I woke up I got right to work.

I wonder what the neighbors would think if I hung these up outside?! Makeshift Clothes line!

I'm a Panther!

Did some tree climbing. The cities trees at the edge of my front yard were getting those branches that grow straight up and then die because they can't get sunshine ... I decided to go up and take care of them. The first tree was grateful .... the second not so much ... & boy did it have a lot of dead branches up there!

It bit me!

  I had a nice conversation with my chipmunks! The buggers are into everything. I scared the one so bad that when he spun around to run from me he clunked his wee head on the neighbors fence... poor dear!

Volunteers!

 This should never have been an issue....who is mean enough to shop us on our busiest day of the year?! I mean Saturday was the 1st day of Summer Reading Club (SRC) there were bairns EVERYWHERE! Running a muck!

I needed a stick drink after work! Half a glass of Russian Fire Water with a splash of cranberry juice!

 Finally started working on removing the grass from our soon to be wood pile and garden!

East side...

West side

 Our butcher block came in. Some light sanding and wiping down then we started painting. We're leaving the top wood and treating it in oil!

Butcher block

Painting

More to come ....