Fruit Salad

I made the yummiest fruit salad for Easter supper. We celebrated Easter yesterday so its still very fresh. I layered bananas, mango, strawberries, grapes and lined the side of the bowl with cantaloupe. My mom whisked frozen orange juice concentrate with strawberry jam for the glaze. So delicious! I have a full bowl of leftover salad. I just blended the fruit salad with a small container of strawberry yogurt and its very very yummy. The grape skins get stuck in the straw but its still great.

Planting with purpose

On a recent trip to Lowes to find a peach tree I was elated to find a Rainier Cherry Tree. I ADORE rainier cherries! And they are very very expensive. Last year I drooled over and seriously considered buying some at $8 a pound! My tree cost just $14.99. Two pounds of cherries will pay for the tree. How cool is that? I think we need another tree so they can pollinate but i haven't found anything for sure yet. Right now its sitting on our porch waiting to be planted. I have the perfect spot for it but theres already a prickly most awful plant in the way. We're slowly but surely clearing the area yet.

Homey Home

We purchased our home in July of 2007. I wouldn't call it a fixer upper so much as a plain jane. The outside was painted pink, and the paint was peeling. The yard is overrun with brush and weeds, well the parts that aren't pure dirt are. The inside is all white, with horrible cheap blue carpeting. The living room has wood laminate, the bathroom and kitchen white laminate. Nothing wrong really, just plain and somewhat ugly. Not the way I want to live! of course we're on a budget but there is still ways to improve it.

We've started the outside painting,($300) hopefully we can finish soon (get warmer at night WA!) which will really improve the outside. I've been working on clearing out the brush. (free, if you don't count the electricity) Last weekend I dug a flower bed the length of the house. I planted 12 primroses, and the Narcissus bulbs i bought on clearance last year. I lined the bed with rocks from the property. It looks great and only cost me $3. (I had a $10 rite aid coupon and they had primroses on sale for .99 each) I spent 2 half days painting the kitchen a bright sunny yellow. (cost $4) It looks awesome and really brightens up the space! We have lots more to do, including installing a new window, installing an already purchased chandelier, paint the rest of the inside, install flower boxes, build front porch, make paved nook in property, build garden, and sow grass seed. Phew! I'd better get busy!