Learning With a House

So Cassie and I have been in the house for 15 whopping days now. Amazing stuff. We're completely unpacked - it turns out that if you move from a 1 bedroom apartment, it doesn't take that long to unpack. Plus, Cassie did it all while I was at work. She gets a lot of stuff done at 7 months pregnant. That really impresses me.

Now we're trying to settle in to having a house. So far we've painted the nursery, we'll have to add a picture of that later. We're also going to put up some pictures of the rest of the house soon, but not yet. We may paint another room or two first. We're planning to paint our TV room - which currently has no TV - and the office. I'm not very happy about the painting jobs done in these rooms previously, but those gripes will come later.

The learning part is mostly happening outside the home. Right outside the home. Neither Cassie nor I have much experience managing a garden. I mowed the lawn for the first time yesterday - that I know how to do - and we were pulling some weeds from the garden. The previous owners had a thriving garden: we inherit healthy strawberry, raspberry, and rose bushes, lavender, lemon thyme, rosemary, green onions, carrots, mint, and some other things I don't know the name of. Now Cassie and I have to try to learn to maintain these things.

I tried my first hand at pruning the rose bush. This is what I know about pruning so far: don't let the thing grow too big. That's as precise as my knowledge gets on the matter. Hopefully I don't kill anything.

In the back, where the carrots and green onions are growing, we've got plenty of space to grow more vegetables/things. I love the way tomato plants smell, so that's a definite. However, there's enough space that it'd be a bit ridiculous to do all tomato plants. Does anyone have any suggestions for things to grow in there? Of course, all of this assumes that we can grow anything at all and don't kill everything. Wish us luck.