Handy(wo)man challenge, 2008

This is the “before” and “after”. The before is the fence boards on the far left… I had to tear ‘em apart and then remove the nails and well, I ended up with a pile of old, cracked wood. I didn’t want to burn the wood or toss it so I thought maybe we could [...]

Grass is a growin’!

Progress on the homefront as we got some news to update!

Our grass is growing on the yard area we worked on about 10 days ago or so! Rock on! I think it was a bit too cool for the grass to grow as we went through a bit of a cool spell so the last [...]

Landscaping an ugly corner

Ya know, we’re suckers for punishment. My dad brought up a bunch of soil last year and we ended up spreading it over this area which had really poor grass coverage and was just an unused portion of our yard which you can see from the road and was butt-ugly.
Well, we bought some stones for [...]

Our updates…

Well, Martin and I are doing fine lately… gearing up for spring to come (if it ever decides to!) so we can start work on our yard… and I’ve been fortunate enough to have (tentatively) my contract extended until the end of June which will help pay for the schooling in July and August. I [...]

Keep your eyes on the fries!

My old french teacher used to say during tests, “Keep your eyes on the fries!” which always made me kinda giggle. I’m super-duper tired right now and my body  is just shuttin’ down and blaaaaaaaah. That’s okay. I started thinking today that really, there are only 9 more weeks of classes because they only go [...]