i wish it would stop raining!

it has been raining here (POURING off and on) for like 3 weeks straight now. we have had to plant the gardens in between raindrops and still haven't gotten all of our outside work done. i wish it was not so foggy and rainy and gloomy outside because i want to take and post some pictures of our NEW garden project at my parents' house. it is HUGE compared to what we have now, and with a lot of work and prayers, it will make a huge dent in our food bill and keep us fed through the end of the fall! we have planted so much more already than we usually do because we have a bunch more room, and i am so excited to see how it goes. our next step is to slap up a fence around it because i have already seen (and chased) a bunny sniffing around!
shlee and i tried to have a yard sale yesterday but it misted the entire day so nobody really came out, despite the fact that it was town-wide garage sale day! i think we made like $35 total between the both of us. but i suppose that's better than nothing. it was fun to hang around with everybody all day and ted had a reason to spend all day in the garden (otherwise it would have taken forever to get most of the work done because he'd have done it in snippets).
in other news the realtor came on friday so that we could list the house, but i still don't think that we will just yet. we signed off on the listing as of today, but after having the weekend to think it over and pray on it we have decided to give ourselves a little bit of time. the financial reality of it is that with the housing market like it is, and after all of the money that we put into the house and having to pay realtor commission, we would only break even, and that's only if we got a full-price offer. so we are taking some time and doing some painting and de-cluttering and landscaping and whatnot, and then we will re-group. also, our principal on the mortgage will be paid off a little more and hopefully the housing market will have rebounded slightly by then. on a high note, my house is cleaner than it has been since ru was born and i have a ton of ambition to make it even better! we will make our house the castle (or tiny adorable lake cabin) that i always knew it could be!
i wish i had taken pictures of our dinner from last night. i tried my hand at making some whole wheat amish-style noodles, and despite the fact that they were a little thick, my husband LOVED them. i adore him for cherishing my simplistic culinary missteps! i served them up hot with butter, parsley and caraway seeds and i have to say that i enjoyed them very much (i'll just have to spend a little more time to roll them thinner the next time). we also had peas with pearl onions and some broiled cod fillets. i need more dinners like that!
i hope i can make my next post a picture filled one!