Pending project

As the days get nicer and nicer I find myself looking toward the back yard. The place that socializing happens, the place where summer foods are cooked, the place where the pup digs up all flowering botanicals. Yes, summer is on its way.

Sis and I were scrutinizing the yard yesterday and discussing the best use of space. As it turns out we put the patio in the wrong place. Yes, 2 years ago we laid out a patio, tilled the ground, leveled it out (kind of) and poured the cement into cobblestones to form a beautiful patio off the back of the house. Now, in our use of said patio over the last 2 summers we have come to realize that it is in direct blazing hot sunlight ALL of the time. This is not a bad thing on cool days when the sunshine feels good, but on days when the thermometer is registering 95 in the shade, the patio becomes a blazing inferno where even food and beverage in the cooler find themselves in a boiling tub of what used to be ice.

A decision has been made. We must move the patio to the shade of the garage. Cobble by cobble this will be done over the next week or two. We will get our hands on a tiller again, level the ground, and transfer the patio to its new location. I am truly hoping that this will be easier than pouring the cement.

We will use the area against the house for planting. We have made a household decision that we would like to grow food. We are thinking asparagus, all of our typical herbs, tomatoes, raspberries, onion and garlic. I wouldn’t mind some carrots or brussel sprouts, snap peas and green beans. We will see how it goes. So far our collective green thumb has been a bit brown. Basil seems to be the only thing we can keep alive. It is a good thing because we make the most incredible pesto.

Wish me luck on our pending project.