Shameless Plug

A blog post about building the new shed in the backyard is in the works! I promise!

Until then, this is a shameless plug for my graphic recording website...

http://www.tanyagadsby.wordpress.com/

I'm really loving this work!

Secret Garden

I've been meaning to post a few photos of our garden. It's been doing alright this year. But I think the garden likes to fool me... last year our one cucumber plant flourished. So this year I planted five of them, but the cucumbers are thumb-sized and shrivelled :(

Tomatoooooes! I love grape tomatoes.

The self-replenishing lettuce aisle.

I planted eight sunflowers. Only one grew.

The two zucchini plants I bought from the Moss Street Market are HUUUGE.

And the basil is also quite plump this year. Good old Basil.

That dead thing in the corner of the fence? Yeah that was once a big rose bush... until we moved it... and he died a slow death. RIP rose bush.

Breakin' the Silence

Hallo! How y'all doin'? We've been fine, although silent for the past month... or more... eeeeeeee....

But here's a quick visual summary of what we've been up to.

Eating al fresco Italian dinners in our lovely backyard garden. (with vino of course!)

Eating al fresco home-cooked meals on the parents' back deck. (with vino of course!)

Tending the garden. Trying not to kill the roses...

Jersey got a haircut. He thinks they took too much off. But it keeps him cool so I told him to keep his mouth shut.

And of course, we've been mountain biking. I joined the Dirty Girlz Club and I've been lovin' learning new skills and meeting like-minded ladies. I actually haven't been on a road ride in a couple weeks!

Cam's been practicing this wicked jump, pictured above. Here's the scary moving picture of the same jump... mothers, cover your eyes.

Today I decided to see how long it would take me to bike out to Hartland, the local mountain bike park (up by the red X). I'm going to have to do it a few times over the next weeks because the women's rides are right after work!

Cam met me up there with the truck and we went for a good ride on the trails.

This is my custom-made laminated map of Hartland... I colour coded the trails so I don't accidentally wander onto scary double black diamond trails.

Today Cam and I wound our way up the Switchbacks to the top... then descended Snakes & Ladders.

Now I'm ready for bed. Goodnight.