Breakfast with the Stenferts: Here's the Pictures

In my last post I mentioned that I would take some pictures and post them. So here they are. I can't keep up to all that is happening some of these pictures are already out of date!! But enjoy!!

The first one here is the awesome table that I got at a garage sale. I love the color of the orange tiles!! It was a plain wood table when I got it, so I painted it white and voila! I would love to say that the hydrangeas in this picture are mine, but they are not. They are from my good friend Kate, her hydrangea bush is absolutely gorgeous,, you will see mine a little lower, not so gorgeous yet.

The previous owners of our house had left us this rain barrel. It was never hooked up properly, nor was there a spout to get water out of it, so it just wasn't functional, but it works really well on the deck for pure decoration!

This is the walkway from the back of our garage. It's all flat stones that Art and Sylvia have pulled for us from various places along their travels. And you can also see the cedar rail fence here. Not only does it keep Marley in the backyard, but it look great too. There will be beautiful and full gardens all in the wood chips some day,, this gardening thing takes some time apparently.

Another angle of the fence and the gate into our backyard.

Oh man, my mother in law told me the name of this, here's how I think that it's spelt, phlox. Hopefully I got that right. These pink ones bloomed first and now we are starting to get some white ones as well.

And these are my hydrangeas....

Here's a hosta. This one did really well. It was even transplanted in the middle of the summer, but it stayed super green, and full, and actually bloomed quite beautifully.

This is the base of the cabin that Ben's parents are building for Ben. He wanted a bit of a man cave, so this is what we are doing. It's being made all out of recycled wood either leftovers from the addition, or other wood that Ben's parents have collected and no longer need. The cabin will be Ben's space, but it's also going to cover in the hole where the dead cedars are, so that our yard will be completely private again. The front of the cabin will have a small porch and huge windows. I went to my parents place last week and picked out some windows and doors. They had tons of them in their old barn that they didn't need, so I went and choose some out! That was really fun too. There were all shapes and sizes and colors. I am really excited about the door. It's this old red door that is solid wood, and has a ton of character. It even has the old glass window to go with it. It's going to look great!