Garden Phase Two

This week Andy picked up some dirt for the garden beds that we built. The dirt is actually made from our yard waste that the city picks up, kinda cool to think that we pay the city to pick up our yard waste and then we buy it back as dirt.

The beds worked perfectly and we got a lot of seedlings planted, as well as added some seed to start growing.

I can't wait to see the new seeds come up after we get back from Ireland in a week and a half.

Swimming Nationals

Two weekends ago - May 6-10 Andy raced at the USA Master's National Swimming championships.

It was in Clovis CA, basically Fresno. It was held at Clovis high school that had two 50 meter pools. So one pool was for swimmers to warm up and the other was holding two heats at a time. It was pretty cool to watch.

Here is Andy in his super speedy suit. Everyone was wearing these suits. Not just for the Olympic swimmers. Swimmers were saying that the suits were helping them improve their times - big time!

the carpeted garage with my bike and our washer/dryers and refrig in storage...

more of the backyard..

Our backyard with 3 or 4 banana trees..

Our backyard. A cool sundeck and the pine box is the starting of our vegetable garden that we are about to start planting in. The bigger plants are white ginger that are not blossoming for some reason..

It looks messy to you, but it's organized for us right now. Definitely time to get rid of some stuff. Yes, it's carpeted..

Andy's office/room...still pretty much a mess.. This will be our guest room once we get a few more things..

Nicole's room/office..

Nicole at the door of our bedroom, down our short hall..

the master bedroom with no wall adornment yet..but great morning light..

the pictures make this look really small, but in reality it's not..

The kitchen..

This is our front room with the east facing front door in the upper right, the fireplace on the right and the wonderful wood floors.

Pictures of 364 Rancho Dr

Nicole and I moved in to a new (to us) house together in April and we're estatic with this place. While relatively small, it's typical for most of mid-town Ventura...Hardwood floors throughout, a good size fireplace, 3 bedrooms, a full-size clean (and carpeted) garage and good neighbors. We're really happy here and hope we get to stay here for a long time..