Here is our lovely yard. Seoul has become courageous and attempts to walk on the grass now - yay! The far end is destined to yield delicious corn, cucumbers, strawberries, blueberries, and all other goodness we decide to plant. We have no idea what we're doing but we're having fun doing it!
Starting the garden! Kelley is trying his hand at rototilling (is this a word?). That's my big, strong man! I appreciate that he's willing to don work clothes and work out in the yard after a long, hard day at work.
My brother hooked us up with a deal on a lawn mower and my awesome nephew Trevin tried it out for us :)
One day we were out working in the yard. (As a side note, we realize we will never have a free weekend again - HA!!) We are getting rid of the red lava rocks slowly. Is there any purpose for those? Not in our world so rocks, be gone! We had just decided to get rid of the 3 bushes in the front of the house. So Kelley pulls out his handy dandy pruning shears, albeit small ones, and starts trimming branches so we can slowly get rid of the unwanted branches in the yard debris bin. My brother rolls up and asks what we're doing. Without hesitation he volunteers his quicker method: 1, 2, 3, DONE.
Step 1: borrow a chain from our neighbors
Yes, we don't own a chain. What are our trusty little Honda Civics ever going to pull??
Step 2: wrap it around the base of the bush
Step 3: drive away and it's outta there
Yep, no hesitation and no time for second thoughts. Kelley is just glad he didn't have to do it all by hand! We love it... totally opens up the front area. Now we just have to be creative and replace the area with something we do want. Hm - maybe we should apply to be on that show on HGTV, Curb Appeal (or whatever it's called)...
I checked to make sure my lovely flowers were still intact. (I know, they weren't flowers I planted personally but I worried for them in this perilous adventure.)
Most recently Kelley started working on the overgrown hedges. We so do not want to be the homeowners that people hate the site of our property because it's unkempt! Kelley did a fabulous job. Somehow he eye-balled it to get it straight across the top... better him than me because if I did it we'd have wavy hedges... and short ones cuz I can't reach too high! Thanks to my dad for the cool hedge trimmer - works perfectly!
Last Saturday we tackled the garage. Beautiful morning. We pull everything out in somewhat organized piles. We start putting things back in an organized fashion. Then... it rains. Hard. We are hustling to get everything back inside. Now it's worse than when we started. Our stuff is wet. We are wet. Seoul is crying wanting attention and I think a bit nervous because we're running around frantically. We're frustrated. So we take a break...
This is the result the next day. Beautiful. So we think we can park the car in the garage. Remember I have a Honda Civic Hybrid. Compact car. Kelley pulls it in slowly... and then realize we can't open the side door to get Seoul out. So Kelley backs it out slowly...
The stuff on the left is garage sale piles so that will be gone soon. The bins on the right hopefully we can put in the rafters once we get some sturdy boards. Then we'll try again.... unless we acquire more stuff that will replace that soon-to-be-empty space...
This is how Seoul helped... she found a sleeve of Ritz crackers on our food shelf and attempted to eat them through the wrapper because I didn't open them the instant she wanted.
Last but not least, what home doesn't have a BBQ? We are now the proud owners of a home AND a BBQ (that also smokes and rotisseries. Intense, I know!). Kelley had been pricing them for weeks now and finally devised a plan to get it home. He happened to "run into" my brother, who has a Suburban, at Home Depot. Haha... just kidding! First, we planned to get one with our tax refund. Second, he called before he purchased it to make sure it was OK. See? We communicate :) I say yes, then they roll up with this bad boy. Oh, the quick, delicious meals one can make with a BBQ.
We are having fun and keeping busy. We are blessed.
Last Saturday we tackled the garage. Beautiful morning. We pull everything out in somewhat organized piles. We start putting things back in an organized fashion. Then... it rains. Hard. We are hustling to get everything back inside. Now it's worse than when we started. Our stuff is wet. We are wet. Seoul is crying wanting attention and I think a bit nervous because we're running around frantically. We're frustrated. So we take a break...
This is the result the next day. Beautiful. So we think we can park the car in the garage. Remember I have a Honda Civic Hybrid. Compact car. Kelley pulls it in slowly... and then realize we can't open the side door to get Seoul out. So Kelley backs it out slowly...
The stuff on the left is garage sale piles so that will be gone soon. The bins on the right hopefully we can put in the rafters once we get some sturdy boards. Then we'll try again.... unless we acquire more stuff that will replace that soon-to-be-empty space...
This is how Seoul helped... she found a sleeve of Ritz crackers on our food shelf and attempted to eat them through the wrapper because I didn't open them the instant she wanted.
Last but not least, what home doesn't have a BBQ? We are now the proud owners of a home AND a BBQ (that also smokes and rotisseries. Intense, I know!). Kelley had been pricing them for weeks now and finally devised a plan to get it home. He happened to "run into" my brother, who has a Suburban, at Home Depot. Haha... just kidding! First, we planned to get one with our tax refund. Second, he called before he purchased it to make sure it was OK. See? We communicate :) I say yes, then they roll up with this bad boy. Oh, the quick, delicious meals one can make with a BBQ.
We are having fun and keeping busy. We are blessed.
