Garden still producing mid September!!!

Our cherry sun-sugar tomatoes and yellow tear drop still producing like crazy !!! we had a couple heirloom brandy-wine and heirloom pineapple tomatoes.

Los mini tomatitos de la variedad Azucar del Sol y los de la variedad Lagrima Amarilla siguen produciendo a lo loco!!! Pudimos cosechar un par de los Brandy-Wine y Heirloom Anana 

This little fella is going to end up on my plate latter that night.

Y este tomatito termino en my plato a la noche...

I got this cherry tomatoes as a "trial" or test. My wife  +sheryl frank  was skeptical about the flavor profile of these tomatoes, but once we harvest a handful, she was surprised for good!!

Consegui este tipo de tomates para probar que tal eran, y my esposa no estaba convencida que el sabor no fuera bueno, pero una vez que la planta produjo un puñado, se sorprendio de lo bueno que eran!!

A very beautiful morning I must say.

Tengo que decir que esta es una muy linda mañana.

YUM!!!

Que rico!!

These tear drop with the morning dew... 

Estos Lagrimas Amarillas con el rocio matinal...

I have to admit, +sheryl frank is getting good at taking picts...

Tengo que admitir que mi esposa saca muy buenas fotos...

Look at these bell peppers!! Not ready to be picked yet, still need to change color to orange or yellow.

Mira estos pimientos morrones!!, Todavia no estan listos para ser cosechados y tienen que cambiar el color a amarillo o naranja.

2 out of the 6 bell pepper plants have 12 fruits each... the rest are between 7 and 9 peppers. Looking at this picture, you can see a new flower is there and where it is the flower, the pepper will grow!!!

 2 de las 6 plantas de pimientos morrones tienen unos 12 morrones cada una. El resto de las plantas tienen entre 7 y 9 morrones cada una. Mirando esta foto, se puede ver que hay una flor, y en donde esta la flor, mas tarde aparecera un morron !!

One of our lettuce plant.

Una de las plantas de lechuga.

And here is the other lettuce.

Y aqui esta el otro tipo de lechuga.

Kitchen Storage bench update !!!

And here we go... it all started with a hand drawing design... nothing fancy...

 You can see the cut list for the frame... 

 The frame wood pieces all lined-up!!

Pocket hole.... do I hear angels singing!!!!, what an invention!!!

 the base of the frame is taking form

 Frame is all done!!

 time to start placing the plywood on the sides...

 and here it is.... already placed on the kitchen.

 and my wife +sheryl frank already started using it !!!

for my wife, she wanted to use it right away instead of wait until stained!!!

Garden Update

The garden still thriving even on Sept 1st!!!

 These Sun Sugar cherry tomatoes are still growing.

 +sheryl frank  got this picture and you can see a drop from the morning dew

 The sweet basil is growing!!!

 One of the variety of lettuce

 Here is the other lettuce 

 as you can see on this picture, +sheryl frank is working hard pruning and harvesting. Still amazes me how big the tomatoes plants grow without any fertilizer, miracle grow or anything.... Just plain used coffee grinds and egg shells. 

 The banana peppers still growing!!!!

 and these plants are awesome producing!!!

 the orange bell peppers starting to turn colors!!!

 this one is almost ready for harvest!!!!

 Okra flower

 Okra are also growing!!!

My sweet and gorgeous wife +sheryl frank is working hard!!!!

Before and After - Our own house

Hello Y'all !!   (sorry, but I had to type the southern accent, ;-) )

Here are a couple pictures of how the rooms on the house looked before and after. You must remember that we purchased the house back in April 2013 (actually, God provided for...)

We painted the whole house, and kudos to my gorgeous wife +sheryl frank for the outstanding job she did (mostly all of it while I was at work). Her vision and choice of colors resulted in an awesome combination.

Please be aware that by any means we are knowledgeable on any of the things we did. Specially me, I am a hardware computer guy and Sheryl is a Chef. So doing all this hard work was extenuating and the same time very rewarding, knowing 

This is how the front deck looked like...

I had to remove the old boards and replaced with new ones.

The old boards were so rotted that I couldn't used them even if I flipped over.

Living room with a look into the kitchen

and this is how it looks now.

here is closer look to the baker's rack and if you pay closer look to where the pots are hanging, I've ended up McGyvering something with a grill grate

a picture of the one of the kitchen's corner.

This is how it looks now... we reaaaaaallllyyyy love the color the kitchen has now, this picture doesn't make justice at all.

Kids bedroom.

On one of the corners, Cailtyn's bed with her pink wall

and on the opposite it is Noah's bed with the light blue, the name color on the middle is something funky that I can't pronounce ...

Living room with our fireplace.

How it looks now.

A closer look at the fireplace. Looking forward to use it this winter ... 

Let us know what do you think, suggestions, etc

Our Garden was growing like craaazzzzyy!!!

Our Garden this year is a test  and so far we passed with flying colors on the banana peppers.

and the tomato plants were growing like crazy without any fertilizer at all, not even miracle grow... just plant top soil and compost...

The yellow teardrop tomatoes plants were growing amazingly big.

The sweet banana peppers are doing great... so far we were able to harvest enough to can 36 mason jars pint size!!! 

But then we had 3 weeks with rain every single day and no sunshine, so, our tomatoes, zucchini and squash plants pretty much suffered big time to the point of some drowning and loosing a lot of the fruits. The little sun sugar cherries tomatoes are still going, since there are "indeterminate" type of plant. but all the Heirloom are not doing good... 

I'll be posting more picts.