Thank yous...

We've had some help from friends this week. One friend printed our invitations for us. We did the layout, which seemed to take FOR-EV-ER and he was kind enough to get them printed and returned to us quickly. We did such a great job at procrastinating that I was worried we got them to our friend too late but he was great and we got them back with plenty of time to spare.

Another friend is a scrapbooking genious! We told her what we were hoping to do and she told us exactly what we would need to do it. We bought the supplies and she came over when we had eveything ready to go. She was awesome. She knew the best way to run the assembly line and we had the stickers created and invitations attached in no time!

So I say Thank You! To our friends that we cherish and appreciate. Thank you.

See how our garden grows!

So we are continuing to be excited about our garden. We have little jalapenos that are about an inch long. We have flowers on the zucchini, tomatillos, roma tomatoes and the eggplant - which I am hoping will mean they might produce soon! We compared the before and after pictures to see how much they have grown and I am impressed. We have had to water them pretty regularly though as we are not having any luck with rain.

We had a squirrel that used to hang out in our yard all the time last fall and apparently he has wreaked havoc for me! We have a purple emporer planted and it seems there are hundreds of little offshoots from this plant. That darn squirrel must have broken apart one of the root balls and moved them around! They are everywhere. I spent some time last weekend "weeding" to get it under control but I think I need to continue doing more this weekend too. I don't think I knew how much I would invest emotionally in this garden, but I have. I know M has too. My mother must be proud!

Time to make some breffis before getting some good going done for the day!

Our garage sale!

Our garage sale!, originally uploaded by somegoodgoing.

Our condo association was having a garage sale. We decided to take the opportunity to clean out our basement. The weather was perfect, it was mid 70s and sunny.

At the point of this picture, we had made $66.50! We were both pretty impressed since neither one of us has ever been part of a garage sale before. So we ended up at $68.50, which is better than if we hadn't done it, and we had fewer things to haul back down into the basement! Yeah! The president of the condo association said we might do this again in the fall. We have learned a valuable lesson, if someone shows an interest in something, you tell them a price, if they put it down, lower the price! We also decided that garage sales might only be a good idea if it is a community wide thing, you will get more foot traffic than doing this on your own.

Good going in the garden

DSC00122, originally uploaded by somegoodgoing.

Team Good Going (henceforth TGG) did some good going Monday night. We completely re-arranged and replanted our little yard into an herb, fruit, and veggie garden!

We have basil, parsley, cilantro, sage, tarragon, oregano, chives, and thyme for herbs and we planted eggplant, zucchini, jalapeños, and bell peppers for vegetables. And to round it out with fruits we have roma tomatoes and a tomatillo!

We're hoping that at least the herbs stay alive. Those little $3 packets at the grocery store are getting old :-)

the clematis is blooming

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Inugural Post

So we - okay, mostly I - gave a lot of thought to the name of this blog and are very excited with the name that chose us. M and I try to be very thoughtful of each other and encourage each other when appropriate. When we have done something good or difficult, something we didn't want to do or needed to be done, we are rewarded with "That was some good going!". We strongly believe in the power of positive reinforcement. Having said that...

We have been doing so much good going that we haven't had a change to blog about it! Here is some of the good going we have been doing recently:
We went to Rochester to meet with our wedding photographer - he took some great shots for our "engagement" session! Frank DiMeo
We ordered our wedding cake, ordered the paper & envelopes for our invitations, met with pastor Charlie to discuss the ceremony, bought an elliptical machine to collect dust, spackled & started painting our linen closet, and are working on rearranging our garden.

Having said all that, we will keep you posted when we do some "good going".

K & M