Dave and Cynthia Carlsen

Notice the first food from the garden - radishes. Trista was at the house while I picked them and she reminded me that Sean used to ask us to bring home radishes from the grocery store for him. I really don't remember that - but I called Sean and asked him if he'd like some radishes from my garden and he was very enthusiastic about it, so it must be so!

Now onto the tree. As you may recall, the tree in front of the house was very close to the driveway and the front steps. It was small when we moved in but has grown quite rapidly and it was reaching over into the driveway. Eventually there would be no choice but to remove it and so we decided to do it now while it was still possible to do it ourselves, rather than pay a tree removal company. It was hard to do though - we trimmed it was up to where it wouldn't be in the way of getting out of the car, etc. but we walked out into the street and looked objectively and it looked pretty pathetic so down it came. Now I have this lame bare spot out front to try to do something with. Not that the whole front yard isn't lame. It needs a total overhaul, but this year we're "into" "prioritizing" and the back yard, garage and food storage organization is winning prioritized placement