See...I promised!
Today, we did get the pond filled in and leveled and seeded. The firepit was turned over and seeded. Two Japanese Maples were planted. Tomorrow, we've got to mulch the area with the maples and clean the windows on that side, then that segment of the yard is done. I'm totally giddy to see flat land where that farking pond used to be...I really hated that pond. It was scummy and nasty and smelled horrible.
So, because it's a real crowd pleaser...some pictures! (Yes, I know they're always at night, deal with it!)
The pond before:
The pond after:
The last remaining firepit:
Front of house with maples!
It time to ressurect this thing...
It's been almost a year now since I've posted here. There were just too many stress factors going on in our lives which totally precluded being able to do any work on the house at all. The only things that got done were necessities (like fixing a toilet, replacing lightbulbs, etc.) We've lost an entire year's worth of work at this point, but we're getting ready to dive in headlong. We're going to be getting the house appraised in about 2 months and we need to have it ship shape (or at least looking like it). No, we're not selling the house, just doing a re-fi now that we're in a much better position to get the loan that we wanted from the beginning instead of the last-minute-holy-crap-we-need-a-loan-now-or-we're-homeless-in-Oregon loan.
On the hit parade for this summer:
- Massive spring cleaning and reorganizing of all storage.
- Upstairs - level the bathroom floor, remount toilet, fix floor in guest room.
- Livingroom - pull down the rest of the paneling, finish up the stove area, drywall patching, paint.
- Laundry room - pull down shingles on the walls, patch nail holes, paint.
- Bathroom - spruce up with some cabinets/shelves or something, fix toilet better.
- Storage Closet - remove exterior walls, remove floor, remove stone planter from bottom step, voila! backdoor again!
- Kitchen - finish puttying/painting cabinet doors and drawer and rehang, rip up old floor, put down new linoleum, touch up painting, new appliances
Outside (already underway)
- Level the pond area, finishing filling in pond, seed.
- Seed old firepit
- Fill in random yard holes with dirt we have.
- Plant the new maples & clover
- Clean windows on outside
- Fix fence (moving gate possible)
- Fix deck
- Repaint deck
- Spot paint the house
Sure... we've got plenty of time if we do nothing but go to work each day and work on the house each night! We'll do it. The pond, the firepit and 2 of the 4 Japanese Maples should be done tomorrow probably pretty early and we might get to something else on the list (more than likely cleaning). We'll need to get a dumpster in to take away the shingles and paneling and such and then it'll really feel like summer. Aaaaaaah the first dumpster of the year... it just makes me giddy!
There will be more soon... this time I promise!
