Yes, I know, it's been a while

We decided that once the floor was done, we were going to take a week off. It was a nice week filled with nothing taxing. This weekend marked the end of that. I dug up a bunch of plants in the garden that were marked for death and I still have a ton more to go. Mike planted and replanted a bunch of things into the bed we are going to use for the winter.

I finally got all the wood that was all over the driveway neatly stacked against the shed and took the stupid freestanding clothesline down. I wasn't able to get the pole out because it's in concrete and I was done digging for the day so I just spray painted the pole orange so we wouldn't run into it. Now the driveway is like 50 gajillion times bigger and when we park it's pretty much a straight shot to the side porch instead of walking all the way around the house.

Final thing we did was completely impromptu. The hose was stuck on the water spigot and was leaking water everywhere so Mike decided he was going to take it off and do some rigging with plumbers putty. Unfortunately, it was on so tight that instead of the hose coming off, the spigot snapped in half and water was pouring everywhere. He quickly ran and turned off the water at the main, then it was off to Home Depot for repairs because the other half of the spigot would not come off the pipe that went under the house, instead the entire pipe came out. Fantastic. Good thing was that when he came back it was a simple 1-2-3 job with him under the house and me outside putting everything together. Now, we have a brand new spigot. Attached the hose and still water leaking everywhere. Apparently the issue was with the hose all along...fun. So we went and got a new hose and life is grand.

Ah, the joys of living in an old house.

If you want to see pictures of the floor and me working on it and the hole in the floor and such, go check it out at the picture gallery.

posted by Unknown @ Tuesday, August 01, 2006