For those of you who saw me surfing websites all winter trying to decide which seeds to buy and who then heard about me starting the garden before Easter to get the seeds going, I’m happy to report my little garden is flourishing!

Behind the fence we built two small boxes for my gardens.  Starting from the left I’ve got Painted Lady Runner Beans, mesculin and lettuce mix, carrots, lemon cucumbers growing up the wall, three types of peppers (the seedlings got all mixed up), yellow wax bush beans, black pear tomatoes, beets, and gai lan.  I pulled up some of the beets last weekend and had a taste – it was a mixed bag of beet seeds – and the two I tried were delicious.  Some of my yellow beans are about ready and we’ve been eating lettuce non-stop for months.  It got a bit overgrown so I reseeded this weekend but grew half as much as we don’t eat that much lettuce.

The purple flowers are borage I palanted around the trees out front.  They look really pretty in the sun!

Tanya and I went to Southern California last week (June 29-July 4) – here are some pics from our Wine/Food/Beach vacation!

Itinerary:
June 29 – Flew Air Canada YOW-YYZ-SNA (Upgraded to executive class – woohoo!), picked up our cherry red rustang convertible, stayed at the Hilton Costa Mesa in Anaheim
June 30 – Drove to Temecula, did some outlet shopping in Lake Elsinore, some wine tasting, and stayed at the South Coast Winery Resort and Spa. Ate some spectacular food
July 1 – More wine tasting, toured old town Temecula, ate more spectacular food and drove to Ranchos Costa Verdes, stayed at the Terranea Resort and Spa
July 2 – Went hiking along the cliffs and beaches around Ranchos Costa Verdes, visited the glass chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, ate more spectacular food, stayed again at the Terranea Resort and Spa
July 3 – Visited the Abalone Coastal Reserve to see the tide pools, went to the beach at the resort, stayed the night at the Terranea Resort and Spa, drank too much.
July 4 – SNA-YYZ-YOW (upgraded again)!

An early spring in Ottawa, March saw no snow, April only a day of snow and now we are into May.  Over the Easter weekend Ryan and I took a great trip to York Harbour Maine and Boston.  A few weeks later I attended the great celebration of my grandparent’s 50th Wedding Anniversary in the BC Kootneys.  It was a great event and I believe people are still enjoying the video (see menu on right).  Please – anyone who wants a DVD version of the video, don’t hesitate to contact me!

A few dead links here or there, but the gallery is back, the posts have been restored and things are looking up!

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Well, I ran out of space with my hosting provider so I renewed the domain with someone else and moved all of my stuff over to Kyle’s server, which has unlimited bandwidth and space .. great right? Well, I didn’t back up Peatt.net properly and now I can’t re-import the old site, which means we may have to start fresh. Bear with us as we update!!

We spent the weekend in Montreal moving Evan, Ryan’s brother, into his new dorm at McGill.  I came home to a bunch more ripe tomatoes and we are having a heirloom pizza for supper.   I think I am still full from all the fabulous food we had in Montreal – Au Pied de Cochon last night and Schwartz’s this afternoon for lunch.   On the drive home we even stopped at St. Albert’s for a few cheese curds.

First signs of tomato growth

Happy Canada Day!  Ryan and I headed down to Parliament Hill this morning for the noon hour show.  It was a spectacular event and we have the sun burns to prove it. 

We have also been in the house for about a month now.  The yard is still a mud pile but I have tomatoes growing in pots and we are as unpacked as we can be at this point.  We are really happy with the house and all the choices we made, but there is still lots to do.  Next up: installing blinds.  I feel a bit guilty about not having any better pictures to show you but I have put a few in Chez Nous for you to see.  Check out the Foodies tab to see how I’ve been enjoying the new kitchen and fresh summer ingredents when making lasagna!

Hi everyone,

We have moved into our new house – more to come on that soon.

We have a new address and phone number! Our new home phone number is 613 – 822 – one five three zero (spelled to avoid telephone number marketing spiders).

If you’d like our new address please send me an email by clicking “Email Ryan!” at the top of the screen to let me know.

Ryan