Outside

One of my goals for 2013 was to spend more time outside.  It's early in the year, but we've done a few things in our yard that will hopefully help motivate me.

First, we're gardening again this year!  And we're much more focused on it than in past year.  Usually we needed the help of our neighbors and their equipment.  They moved away last year, and I was expecting so we didn't garden at all last year.

This year, Keith bought himself a tiller from Craig's List and he's committed!  He's got a co-worker who is menotring him along the way.  So far, the soil looks better, which I suppose is a great first time.

Second, we're composting!  I've been wanting to compost for a few years now, but Keith has been very against it.  His co-worker/gardening mentor is a big composter and got him on board!  Keith built us this awesome composter and we're using it!  We have a 5 gallon bucket with a lid in our kitchen next to our trash can we collect it in.  We are putting fruit and vegetable leftovers and scraps along with other food scraps, but no meat!  After I run the sweeper I empty my canister into the bin too, that helps keep the smell down and is completly fine to go in the composter!  Once the bucket is full we are taking it out to the bin, dumping it in and covering it with a layer of peet moss. 

Our third and final thing, is this awesome fire pit Keith built for us!



Sometime last summer we moved several plants to help the look of our flower beds.  We removed some of the flower beds and planted grass seed and the plants from those we filled in holes in the flower beds we still have.  Hopefully that helps things look a little better around the house and keeps things easier to maintain. 

All three of the kids love to be outside, we like food off the grill and have a great picnic table in the backyard, so I hope to see a lot of the outside this summer!  We are so blessed to have a wonderful place to live our lives!