I finally spotted a little cucumber on the vine last night while we were outside grilling dinner. Hooray! I want to make pickles!!!

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Also over the weekend we had a massive cookout with our neighbors. We all went in together a few weeks ago and purchased a cow (named Bessie) and split up all the delicious, free-range, grass-fed, non-hormonal, organic, etc, etc, etc meat. So on Saturday we threw a bunch of the different steak cuts onto the grill and had a huge feast. Clearly we started off where we all knew what we were doing, because it is pretty tough to mess up a steak on the grill. Up next, we’ll be tackling short ribs, cube steak, brisket, and the rump roast. I’ll probably be doing a little bit of reading here to brush up on my cuts of meat…

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Ok, so the daybed thing is together and in the backyard, and Matt added that awesome little trellis part. Now, I’m working on painting it green. There are a lot of surfaces on that piece, it’s like some sort of weird Escher nightmare trying to make sure I’m not missing any of the sides of the squares. I finished up the first coat between Sunday and today… so tomorrow I will tackle the second coat (fingers crossed that’s all we need)… and also fingers crossed for the weather to cooperate. It keeps calling for rain, then I race to get some done, then I scurry inside, then nothing happens.

Wow, ok, I just looked at that last photo and thought “weird/tacky beach bar” – anyone else getting that vibe? I hope not… I think it’s just the crazy combination of greens between us and the neighbor behind us.

As far as the cushions, thank you all for the advice, input, and the sewing offer! Sooo sweet. We did a lot of searching, and went ahead and ordered an outdoor cushion and Sunbrella cover, it took me forever, but I finally found a pretty reasonable solution for what we need. I’ll post some more pics when it’s all together.

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