Lucy

This is Lucy (affectionately known as Lucifer). She is our neighbor's cat, but seems to like our house better. In fact, she was sitting on our porch the first time we came here and still spends most of her time there. The neighbor told us we could have her, but we're still not convinced that we want her.

Here she is looking very regal and sweet, which she is most of the time.

For awhile she got quite comfy with us and was even sleeping on our bed. We finally let her stay in over night, only to wake up at 6am to the wonderful noise of barfing cat. She's an outside cat now.


She does love attention and will let you hold her for as long as you want. She loves to be held on her back while getting her belly rubbed. Weird cat...

She's also very playful and loves the bamboo in our yard, which I obviously do not since here she is sitting underneath the pile of 5 bamboo trees I just cut down. Don't get me wrong, bamboo is beautiful and the trunks make great garden stakes, but did you know that it looses it's leaves ALL YEAR ROUND?? What a mess! We would basically have to rake our yard once a week to keep it under control, but instead I just chop it down and wait for it to grow back... which only takes about a week anyways.

So, we're trying to like Lucy because it looks like we might be stuck with her, but she makes it very difficult sometimes!

Our Little Tiny House & Garden

Ok, here we go. I'm new to this blog thing, so please bear with me. My goal with blogging is just to share pictures with friends and family so we can all stay connected. Since so many of you live so far away from us, we want to share our lives with you the best we can. I hope you enjoy!

OUR PORCH

Matthew looking so so happy sitting on our front porch :) I swear he really loves this porch! It has been wonderful eating meals together out here during these few nice days in Portland.

THE GARDEN

Here's my little garden. After my bachelorette party weekend, I came to the house to find that Matt had built me this sweet little planter box for my veggie garden! Best surprise!

Two tomato plants and a row of scraggly lettuce (it's been way too hot for it) Oh and please ignore the piles of bamboo leaves, I'll complain more about that later.

Our snap peas are going crazy along with Thai chili peppers and Cowhorn peppers. I also planted two jalapeño plants from seed, but they're only about an inch tall and nowhere near producing any peppers. There was lots of cilantro too, but I just picked it all so there's nothing to see there.

And a few pots of herbs... parsley, basil, lavender and mint. Matt thinks basil is the only thing worth growing out of these, but I disagree!

THE TABLE

Finally, I have to show off the beautiful mosaic table that my grandpa made and gave to us for our wedding. He had the wrought iron frame custom built and we found a great deal on some stools that match perfectly. Now we eat dinner on it every night and will be sad when it gets too cold and rainy to be outside, which I know with be much too soon!