Sunday, June 25, 2006

what do i love????

the grass under the mulberry tree in our front yard was beautiful on our wedding day.....

but after the day it never came back as well....... gio and i decieded - with the idea bursting in my head - to build a sunken patio where the grass once stood.

this sounded beautilul.
i could see it in my head....
i just didn't see where to put all the earth that we were taking out!

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it actually only took a few hours over a couple of day.
gio and sam traded helping with me and then we had the last push of all three of us and we were done!

i love sam. i love gio more.

sam has been gone for a few weeks now. i feel lonely on sunday with out him. i aslo feel at a loss for my scarry movie buddy.
i want to go see the omen (please no comments from the peanut gallery) but rebecca v. has been in italy and sam's been at feral fruits........oh where oh where ............

as for what i have been up to!

our first anniversary was june 9th!
gio and i went back to our honeymoon spot in the san luis valley that we love!

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we rented a cabin that had a kichenette.
we lounged together, had a beautiful full moon
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okay not that one!
this is one of gio's many pondpatrol injuries - he sat on a catus.....

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and the last day we spent sometime in the morning going for a walk and shooting pondpatrol episode 40.

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we had such a relaxing romatic time together, as you can tell by the lack of pants!
i love valley view!

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the garden is coming along. i planted some holly and witches broom infront of the fence under the mulberry. i still desire ferns there as well..... someone i know has a bunch and said they' d donate some to my cause.... very lovelllllyy!!!

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the pond has changed shaped, i love it more now as well!

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not that you can see it but my dad's bench now sits to the north of the pond and has the best view in the house!

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mr.seven
as cute as ever! love him too.

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look at my lavenders!!!!!!!!!! love love love!
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last year mr.balistreri sold me a merlot and cabernet grape plants. they are getting bigger every day! i am tranning them to go around the post for the sun shade. hopefully in the next few years they'll grow over to the dinning area and shade us during lunch!

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i first planned this area to be the herb box but more flowers from last year have popped out. to my surprise the irish bells(the green flowers) are prolific....i am spreading them around the yard in hopes of them semi taking over. i remember they stick around till fall very well!

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and here are my first tomatoes of the seaon coming out. and once again the russian heirloom tomates produce the best.
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