Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

greta garden kisses

I strolled through Adria's garden this afternoon to see what's happening.
I sat on the gravel, inches from the new veggie bed she created recently for chard and peas, with the intention of taking a few pictures of the plants. 

Greta came over and laid this one on me.

I like dogs, but I don't like dogs licking me. 
Greta's figured that out, I think, because she usually just does a fly-by with her big schnoz, and never really tries to make contact with her tongue. 

But she fooled me this time. Dang her!


Sunday, August 23, 2009

the week in pictures

We have a new addition to the quiver - a Trek 520 for Adria. Here she is at Spokesman watching as they put the finishing touches on it before we went for a shakedown ride. 

A shot from our shakedown ride - a 30 miler into the Aptos hills. I think when this shot was taken we had stopped to either look at the map or look for wild blackberries, when Adria looked down and commented "Look! Our bikes like each other!"

Took a spin in "Big Al" at work - it's a show truck that one of our transportation vendors uses for promotions. 
Greta guarding the quiver, with the newest (until Saturday) getting rebuilt on the workbench.


The progress I've made on the Schwinn re-build. This is the '73 I bought a few weeks ago, with plans on converting it to an around-town-fixie.

An up-close shot of the clunky parts they used back in '73 on bikes. 

Every evening I write down something that I'm grateful for. Lately, I've felt so much gratitude for Adria's efforts in the garden. The tomatoes are coming in!

There's a story behind this one, that you will soon hear about in person, or read about here.

What we're having for dinner tonight. 




Saturday, August 15, 2009

Greta in the garden

Adria's garden is going off - it is exciting!
I was watering early this morning, before the heat kicked in, and took some pictures.

Adria is making more and more space for veggies in the backyard garden. She built up this bed last week and put these starts in. Peas and chard I know for sure. And I think there's celery in there somewhere. 

Greta, posing. 


Great, posing, more.