Garden Arch

Sometimes friends leave trinkets for the arch to hang and some glass hummingbird feeders from our friend Peter who blows these amazing feeders, in these great colors.

Thai Herb Marinade for ckn or fish-my favorite

1/3 C. Lime Juice
1/3 C. Fresh mint
1/3 C . Fresh Basil
1/3 C. Fresh Cilantro
3 TB. finely chopped fresh ginger
4 garlic cloves
1 1/2 TB Braggs liquid animo (or soy sauce)
1 1/2 TB fish sauce
1 TB Olive oil
1 1/2 TB Brown sugar
1 jalapeno
Combine all ingredients in blender puree until smooth. marinate chicken over night. grill.
I triple recipe and freeze to use all winter. So Yummy.

July 19th 2008

garden view-fairly happy with what has been growing this year. I seem to always have a hard time with broccoli and spinach though??any tips?

Windows

My Neighbor, Susan (the best neighbor ever) gave me 4 of these stain glass windows. She said they came from an old church in England!

2 of them will be going in the east and west gables.

The other 2 on the North wall, on either side of the door.

I also have a mini stain glass that dad is going put in the dutch door.

I will be adding red, yellow, green and blue glass bottles to the cordwood walls to go with the stain glass windows.

Dad's Drawing

My Dad's drawing of my greenhouse. You are looking at the West wall.

Stacking Cordwood

Got all of my cordwood

(21/2Cords) at a local log home company. All of the wood was super dry, peeled and I would say 1/4 of the wood had already been cut and it just happened to be 13" -the exact measurement I needed!

I split and stacked in one afternoon.

My Dad and Sister arrive the 22nd of August so I am trying to get as much leg work down before they arrive.

My dad wants me to frame in the windows for gables and south wall before he gets here. I will also need to paint the windows and frames.

Foundation

Foundation poured on my birthday last year 2007. Our Friend Chris is a concrete guy and helped do this project -This is on the south edge of my garden.

Next year, hopefully I will be able to replace the fence that is slowly falling apart and enclose this new area with the old.

This spring, we cleared 6 trees to allow more light in-this now gets at least 8hrs of direct light all day long.