I cannot believe we are nearing the end of May. I cannot remember the weather ever staying so bad for so long here! It’s Nevada, for heaven’s sake. You know, desert? (Ok, we’re in the high desert, but still…) It’s been raining for the last couple of days, and not very warm, and last week it SNOWED. In May.
Which all makes me wonder if I just wasted six hundred dollars buying my kids a new swingset. They have an old metal one but it’s… well…. old. They were out playing on it earlier til they got TOO COLD. To play outside. In May. I think it’s going to rain, too.
THIS IS FOR MEEEEEE?!?!??!!
She was very excited to receive her metal swingset though! I love the look of almost frantic joy on her face as she was about to go on her first trip down that slide. It is possible that she will faint when she sees the new one.
They just don’t make stuff like they used to. I remember the swingset I had when I was growing up. That thing lasted for years! This one we have right now- we’ve only had it for a couple of years and some pieces are already falling apart, and some of the plastic pieces are cracking. It just makes me mad. It’s as if they made a swingset that is not meant to be in the sun. Ever. PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME. Where the heck else is it supposed to go?!
Wow. Weird rant over a swingset….
Anyway. We bought one of those ginorm wood ones with the rock climbing wall and the little hideout at the top and all that good stuff. It’s probably going to take a week to put the thing together, so maybe by the time we receive it and get it set up, the weather will change for the better.
Seriously, if it snows in June, I am moving away.
Before
After
We laid 2600 sq ft of sod yesterday. I am pleased! It was a lot of work (understatement) but well worth it. That dirt area will be a patio with a pergola one day soon. Tomorrow, we tackle the garden area! Yay!
That entire area from the back of the shed (you can just barely see a bit of the shed poking into the left side of the picture around the middle), to the fence by the neighbors house- that is my garden. Those metal stakes might or might not stay, but that’s going to be the border of the garden. There will be a chain link fence there to keep the kids out, as the rest of the back yard is going to be grass, and there will be blueberry bushes all along that fence.
It is a big garden, and I can’t wait to get started on it! I wish it would warm up already! It is only 36 out today, and BRRRR could I feel it when I was out there taking this picture.
I plan on having tons of tomatoes, peppers, herbs, carrots, potatoes, squash, peas, cucumbers, watermelons, lettuces… all kinds of good stuff. And I am planning on canning and freezing lots of fresh produce this year, so there will be lots of posts about canning when the summer progresses.
I can’t wait! This is our first year really having a big garden. We had one going last year and then closed on our new house right around the time everything was ready to harvest. It broke my heart to leave behind all those fabulous veggies!
This summer is just going to be awesome. We’re putting in a huge yard, we’re going to make a big kids play area with a wood swing set and possibly a sand box, and we’re going to have a pergola with a table and a big BBQ area back there. Ahhh, I can’t wait. Bring on summer!
