Just a quick note about the awesome stuff my Dad and I got done around the house while J cooked and Mom kept The Boy entertained. Dad and I got started with me pruning back the garden of winter-die-off stuff and trimming the permanent bushes. Dad raked the lawn and ripped out the four cedar trees that I hated. In the place of the trees we dug a little veggie’s garden that I’ll plant some time this week before Mom and Dad get back this Friday. We did a run to the dump with the last of the junk in the shed that the previous owners had left, the cedar trees, and the folding deck chairs that we have had for the past three years that have gotten a little too thread-bare. On the way back from the dump we stopped at Home Hardware and dropped $80 on top soil, grass seed, a new steel rake, sandbox toys for when The Boy is popped out of his prison, silicon and aluminum nails for the siding patch we have to put on the house, and patterned/textured sticker that is for the bathroom window. The sticker for the window let’s in daylight without letting the neighbors see us in the shower, and only for $5!
While Dad raked the lawn of satch, my dad’s word for the dead grass left after winter, I got on my hand’s and knee’s for the next hour and a half and ripped dandelions with my brand new weeder tool. OH MY GOD did my back hurt when I was done! The whole thing just made me more mad at the previous owners! The friggin’ weeds had roots the length and thickness of large carrots! They had been there for YEARS!!! On the other hand if they had maintained the place I don’t think we would have gotten it for the price we did…
Anyway, we also filled in the wholes in the lawn around the yard with the top soil, seeded the bare patches, ripped the grass out of the bottom of my fence, and picked rocks out of my garden. I had to take a nap at some point, The Boy had been up every hour the night before, so Dad did the patch on the siding on the side of the house while I zonked.
Mom was AWESOME! She cleaned my house and finished my laundry while I was doing the yard work with Dad!!! It’s so nice to come in from working hard to find the4 bathrooms sparkling!
Must go. J is going to be starting work soon. He needs the computer.
Ciao for now.
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