This and That

Long time, no blog. Again.
It doesn't look like things will slow down anytime soon so I might as well get some stuff down here while I have the chance.
Let's see...
I mentioned a while ago that I was going to try to grow a square foot garden inside of a dog run to keep the deer out. Unfortunately, that plan never got beyond this...

Turns out that the best place to have a garden in our yard won't pass the HOA's approval unless we install a vinyl fence around our yard. Which is A) not something we want to do. And B) would make the dog run unnecessary anyway. So we sold the dog run for just what we spent on it and decided to join the local community garden instead. We just got things planted today. So delayed because of this late Spring we're caught up in. We also planted just a small box in the backyard mostly for salad greens, snacking tomatoes and fun stuff for Jaxon to experiment with. Hopefully these solutions will work out.

The newest grand sons are well under way.

Can't wait to meet them this fall.

Last weekend we participated in the Great Strides National Walk Event for Cystic Fibrosis.
It was a perfectly gorgeous day sandwiched right in the middle of days and days of rain. Great timing!

The walk took place in downtown Salt Lake City which is becoming a place that I really enjoy exploring after all these years. Go figure. We were walking at a pretty brisk pace that day so I didn't get a chance to snap many pictures (With my new Mother's Day camera! Did ya notice the improvement in pics lately?) but here's just a taste of the beautiful weather we were treated to.

 At the end of the 5K walk there were some guys handing beautiful red roses to all the ladies.

There was a card attached that explained that children with CF sometimes call their condition "Sixty Five Roses" because it's easier for them to say. So sweet. We were happy to help support the event.

Roger and I had a date night last week. We saw The Hasty Heart at Hale Centre Theater. Great show! I seem to be getting mushy in my old age because this one had me crying at the end too. I think this is the second one in a row to reduce me to tears. Oy!
Before the play we had dinner at a favorite restaurant downtown. The Blue Iguana. Yum!
Right outside the restaurant, beside Capitol Theater, there is a new art installation. I'm not sure I really "get it" but it's interesting anyway. Roger said he had read about it in the paper recently and I was able to track down the article online. The piece is titled "Sway'd".

Huh. You never know what you'll see downtown. LOL
Speaking of that...a few days later we were downtown again and I noticed this building as we were walking a different route back to the car.

Hmmm...I wonder what they manufacture there? Donkeys?

We've had a couple of small projects going around the house.
When I had my very first house built 17 years ago, I had this idea to make a curtain rod for the master bedroom out of a tree branch. I'm not sure why it never happened. But Crystal recently moved into her own place and she was looking for curtain rod ideas. While looking for some ideas for her I was reminded of the tree branch idea and I decided to go for it. So we found some branches at Crystal's new place and brought them home. After some trimming and planning we had them just right. Roger helped me get them up on the wall and I sewed some crushed voile panels to hang with lengths of ribbon.

I love how they turned out. I think there's a fun contrast between the rustic branch and the silky, breezy curtains. Softened up our bedroom windows really well.

We've been in the new house for almost one year so naturally it was time to tear something up. :)
This thing had to go!

I've never had a pedestal sink before and I never will again. What a pain! No place to put a bottle of hand soap. And it was originally installed just a fraction of an inch too high so it was constantly pulling loose from the wall no matter how many times we had the builder come and fix it. ugh! So we had it ripped out and replaced with a vanity and granite counter top to match the rest of the house. So.much.better!  I didn't think to take an "after" pic though. Trust me. It's better.

Emily is off track so we've been trying to find some fun things to do. This week we made paper flowers. I can't believe we've never done this before. So easy, cheap and fun.

We'll hang these in Emily's room for a fun bit of color. But we might use them to decorate for Kenzie's graduation party first.
We had a couple of failed attempts too. Emily wanted to make one without trimming the edges. Just the straight edge of the paper. Even crumpling it up didn't help.

And I thought this polka dot paper would make a fun flower.

Not so much. It was thicker and stiffer than the solid colors. And it's only printed on one side. duh!
Oh well. As my Dad used to say, you win some, you lose some.
This orange one is my favorite.

Well, that's a bit of what we've been up to. Yesterday we went to the zoo and out for dinner but I'll save all those awesome pics for another post.
Bet ya can't wait! ;)