We Stained our New Cedar Fence

So we have decided to go ahead and stain our new fence. We waited about a month for the wood to dry out, as it will shrink as it does. We have two estimates for a company to do it for us, but ultimately we did it ourselves and SAVED tons of money! We then did research on the different stains that are available and keeping costs in mind. We ultimately went with the stain where we also purchased our fence supplies from. It had good review and was also made locally.

BEFORE

Applying the Stain...

FINISHED!

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We Built a Cedar Privacy Fence!

So after many years of hating our old chain link fence, we are going to build us a Western Red Wood Cedar Privacy Fence! Check out the journey in the video or scroll through our photos of the massive undertaking; huge project! And we SAVED a ton of money by doing it ourselves too!!!

The backyard after we bought the house; notice you cannot see the chain link fence with all the brush around it. We slowly cleaned it out over the years, but unable to get all of it with the chain link fence there.

The OLD fence is GONE!!

 

The SUPPLIES have arrived!

Time to set 45 post in CEMENT!

 

CEMENT! Time to mix by hand!

  

After digging the holes, mixing the cement, and setting the posts; they are all FINALLY in!

 

700+ Cedar Pickets!

 

3,000+ Duo-Fast Nails!

The pickets are slowly going up....

 

 Time for the top layer of pickets (board on board)

WE ARE DONE!! ...and the dogs can run free again!

FYI: Much more work than the pictures can portray!

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Build a Garden Potting Work Table for FREE out of Old Wood Pallets!

We built a FREE Gardening Work Table out of old wood pallets. Meredith found this idea on Pinterest. Looked easy enough. So we went on a scavenger hunt for wood pallets around the city and found a few place that were giving them away on Craigslist. PERFECT Free will work! Check out the video below to see more details of the project.

Free old wood pallets & crates!

  We now time to break the pallets apart...no easy feat. Ended up cutting out the nails, as they would not come out at all!

Slowly put it together piece by piece.

Then found some stain that only cost us $3.....

Finally finished!

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Christmas at the Clary House!

This Christmas we went to my Mom's Bed and Breakfast, The Clary House, to celebrate with my immediate and extended families. What a great few days we had down in Aggieland.  We went early Christmas Eve to help prepare food for our Christmas Dinner with family.  Christmas Eve night we went to A&M United Methodist with my brothers, parents, niece, and nephew.  A great Christmas Eve service to help us all remember the true meaning of Christmas.  Christmas morning was filled with presents, toy playing, and apple pancakes.  Christmas night my extended family came over for dinner and our annual Christmas gift exchange.  What a great Christmas we had celebrating with my family.

Santa Came!

 

Cherry Pie made by Chef Brandon

Everyone gathering to exchange gifts in the Grand Clary House.

We missed you Ketrons!  Brian and Genevieve we missed you too!

Good to have Grandpa back for Christmas from the land down under.

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Planning & Starting of our Spring Vegetable Garden

So it is the end of December and time to start planning next spring's vegetable garden. Before you know it it will be time to plant our onions in January & Potatoes in February. If you don't want to watch the detailed videos below...We have ordered our seed from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds that we will be growing. Not buying transplants at the nursery this year which lets us grow a greater diversity of vegetables that you cannot find in garden centers.  And we have ordered out seed starting supplies from Greenhouse Megastore to get our seeds off to a great start! FYI--12 different tomato varieties! YUM!!! Next up --time to get the garden ready and amend the soil for optimum organic growing results!Check our our video of the Compost being delivered!

Here is what we growing the Spring 2013.... 

·         Reisetomate Tomato
·         Tomato Yellow Brandywine 
·         Tomato Pink Brandywine
·         Tomato Black Cherry
·         Tomato Cherokee Purple
·         Red Grape Tomato
·         Rutgers Tomato
·         Tomato Costoluto Genovese
·         Chocolate Stripes Tomato
·         Tomato Hssiao His Hung Shih
·         Dr. Wyche’s Yellow Tomato
·         Ferris Wheel  Tomato
·         Tomatillo Grande Rio Verde
·         Litchi Tomato or Morelle De Balbis
·         Pepper – Quadrato D’Asti Rosso
·         Pepper Italian Pepperoncini
·         Pepper Black Hungarian
·         Pepper Hot Bhut Jolokia
·         Pepper Hot Lightning Mix
·         Cucumber Boston Pickling
·         Cucumber Lemon
·         Lettuce Little Gem
·         Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson - GreenLeaf
·         Lettuce Tom Thumb – Butterhead
·         Bean Blue Lake Bush 274
·         Beans Calima Bush
·         Herb – Lemongrass
·         Herb – Cilantro
·         Herb – Slo-Bolt Cilantro
·         Herb – Parsley – Giant of Italy
·         Herb- Genovese Basil
·         Herb – Emily Basil
·         Squash – Butternut Rogosa Violina Gioia
·         Squash – Straightneck Early Prolific
·         Squash – Early Golden Summer Crookneck
·         Squash – Fordhook Zucchini
·         Squash Golden Zucchini
·         Watermelon  - Ali Baba
·         Broccoli – Calabrese Green Sprouting
·         Cabbage- Henderson’s Charleston Wakefield
·         Eggplant Aswad
·         Carrot – Amarillo
·         Carrot – Atomic Red
·         Carrot – Danvers 126 Half Long 










Find this seeds starting equipment below here....

• Hydrofarm Seedling Heat Mat 48"x20"
• Hydromfarm Digital Thermostat for Heat Mat
• Agrosun Florescent Fixture
• Agrosun 48-inch 40-watt Florescent tube

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