The Soapy Knitter

Hi, everyone.

Spring is coming soon and we have 3000 sq ft of backyard (and a few feet in front, too) to clean and fix up.  We have NO IDEA what we are doing.  So I hope you all don’t mind if we pick your brains.  I promise to share progress pictures! 

This is the backyard now.  The little wooden shed is not ours.  That’s the neighbors.  Their dead stuff is growing over into our yard so I’m sure we have to ask permission to cut off what’s hanging over onto our side, right?

The yard is full of these little “sticks.”

First thing’s first, how do we clean it up?

What machine can we use that can cut off/pull up all of those sticks?

We want to clean it all up and start with a fresh slate.  Later, we would like part of the yard to be concrete (to park the car and draw hopscotch on, of course!) and the rest will be grass.  We would love to plant bushes and flowers along the perimeter.

We are keeping the huge tree in back but need to cut down that dead thing covered in ivy in front.  How do we cut that tree down?  LOL

As you guys can see, we need ALOT of help!!!

March 11th, 2010 | Category: Gardening |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Comments (2)

What’s wrong with this picture?

Let me help you out a bit.

See that?  Chloe mistook my NOOK for a chew toy.  Yep.  She sure did.

Luckily she did most of the damage to the case.

That was Saturday.

Then on Sunday, she broke my absolutely most FAVORITE Knit Witch yarn bowl.

There is no after picture because it was, well, in pieces, to say the least.

But, it was an accident, right sweetheart??  You were only trying to pull out Mami’s yarn from INSIDE the bowl, right?  It’s really Mami’s fault for putting the bowl on her nightstand instead of right on the floor.  If it would’ve been on the floor, it would’ve never broken, right, precious?

As you might imagine, she was immediately forgiven.  I mean, really.  Who could resist this face?

March 8th, 2010 | Category: Doggie! |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Comments (7)