Spring is here...gardening...more home renovation...

Spring has come to Connecticut and I am so excited!! Spring means shorts, flip flops, ice cream, and gardening. This year I am going to try my hand at my first real garden. From what I hear it is not hard to get things to grow in New England. I am going to put that to the test and see if it's actually true.  I planted my seeds a month ago and they are getting so big. In the next couple weeks I am going to put them outside. I am already having cravings for fresh juicy watermelon. Fingers crossed!!!

The tree in our front yard is starting to bloom with beautiful purple flowers.

Clint said I went a little overboard for my first garden. He literally had to pick me up and carry me away from the seed turnstyle at Homedepot.

All planted and ready to germinate.

Sunflower starting to pop up out of the soil.

So far so good...

The sunflowers got so big so fast. I am sooo excited.

The plants got big really fast so I had to transplant them into their own cups.

My garden window. It makes me so happy!

After taking a break for a month or so after our dinning room renovation, Clint and I decided we were ready to dig into another project. This time we are working on the living room. Clint and I don't like the popcorn ceilings so we decided to remove it in the living room. It was very messy and challenging, but we feel it was totally worth it.

Finally got the baseboard heaters painting in the dinning room. They look so much better.

Clint starting on the long process of scrapping off the popcorn ceiling.

Clint was such a trooper. He got the whole ceiling done in a day and a half.

Gotta have the mask. Taking the popcorn off was soooo dusty.

Oreo got pretty bored with the whole process.

Oreo wanted a mask too. NOT!

What a mess!

Oreo likes being right in the middle of everything. Can you tell?

I don't think we will ever get rid of all the dust.

Look like anything to you?

Hmmmm....

The culprit.... ;)