Month: June 2007

I went to Lowes to buy a new handrail for the garage stairs and ended up buying some annual and perennial flowers also. I almost never leave a store without buying one or two things that I was not intending to buy, which drives BYUFan crazy. After I got home I sent the kids inside… Continue reading Planting Flowers

On Saturday afternoon Nancy and I went shopping for patio furniture after we had cleaned out the waterfall. We had previously gone window shopping for patio furniture in order to get an idea of what we liked and what the prices were. Unfortunately, Nancy hadn’t yet seen anything she liked at the several stores we… Continue reading Patio Furniture

Just two days after getting our plants in, a major windstorm decided to show itself. The plants weathered the storm without problem. The waterfall didn’t fare so well. Unfortunately, the shredded bark mulch that we liked so much because it wasn’t “barky” is fairly lightweight and the wind simply blew it everywhere – into the… Continue reading Landscape Diary

Well, the dress-rehearsal sushi party went off fairly well. The guests seemed to enjoy themselves and the sushi was decent (not great). It also gave us a chance to use our dining room for the first time and to use Grandma Connie’s china and crystal for the first time so that was fun. The one… Continue reading Party Postmortum

Today I made a trip to the Oriental market on about 700 E and 600 S in Salt Lake City. My job was to get all the ingredients necessary for a sushi party we are hosting for people from BYUFan’s work. I bought sushi rice, nori, smoked eel, flying fish roe, wasabi, sushi mats, a… Continue reading Sushi Party

We spent a good portion of Saturday planting and got most of it done. We still have a couple of bushes and a rose bush to plant out back that we haven’t got to yet. Unfortunately, we ran out of time on Saturday to install the drip irrigation lines to the plants. Sunday was hot,… Continue reading Landscape Diary

Our neighborhood pool opened up on Memorial Day weekend and the kids have been bugging us to take them ever since. Today we needed a break from planting and the weather was plenty warm so I decided to round everyone up and go to the pool. The pool was crowded but not terribly so. Diana… Continue reading Swimming Fun

The landscapers put in new sod a couple of days ago and are finally finished. Unfortunately, the weather is getting hotter and hotter (it was mid 80s today) so even though I’m watering the sod three times a day it is starting to dry up. Oh well, in our old house we planted the sod… Continue reading Landscape Diary