So this weekend, we took it upon ourselves to turn our backyard into a gardeny delicious hideaway. We initially were just looking for a place to get our veg on, but sitting in the quiet of the setting sun, surrounded by foilage and mosquitoes, Laur and I agreed the green added a little something that was missing before.

I posted a great instructables on the whole episode, you can find it here. We used the methods of Batholomew’s Squarefoot Gardening which lending itself, in a slightly tweaked form, perfectly to our small 200 sq. ft. backyard jungle.

We took the plants up a notch to make more space.

And made a citronella oil candle to keep the mosquitoes away. Thanks to Sappho’s Instructable for the know-how.

And got this great pic of D being a Screw-rus (related to teh lolrus) and Iz having lunch.

We also worked on a greenhouse/garbage hider, but more on that when it’s a bit more polished.

Meanwhile, Sol was in Orlando at Universal with Mimi and Paupky not appreciating her DoDo blanket and Puptea being stolen by Thing 1 and thing 2. Now she knows how it feels :).

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