Sunday, September 11, 2011

What's New

I have yet to take a picture of our new floors with the baseboards in, and the toe-kick in the kitchen. In the meantime, here's something else we've done. Remember the window we closed some 1.5 years ago? Well, it's finally serving its purpose now!



Yes, it took a while to find shelf brackets that are small enough to fit a 4.5" deep shelves. We finally got them online. Now they can hold all of our ceramic creations, and a few other things.

And then there's the squacumber:


It was growing on the cucumber plants, that were right next to some acorn squash plants.

When we opened it, it looked more like a melon:


It tasted like a cucumber, but has much crispier bite.
I made a salad with some basil, also from our garden:


It was good :)

Almost forgot: the great gnome and plant invasion:


They situated themselves near our front door, next to our new brick path. Here's a close-up: