It is now Monday the 27th of October!
I have had a busy time since I last blogged.
Got Home from Lil Sis's last Tuesday and Sissy got Home late Tuesday night.
I was so glad to be back in my own home, and it needed me.
On Wednesday I did a boat load of laundry and washed kitchen and bathroom rugs to dry outside.
Husb and I worked on put and take with yard tools and did more organizing in the garage.
Lil Sis came over and had brought me my favorite hazelnut chocolate bars from Aldi in St Louis! I was thrilled.
On Thursday I spent four hours playing with pavers on the side yard and could just not make anything work to my liking. It is a strange space and very shady, so I started to feel very discouraged.
I just went down into a depression which is rare for me? We have worked so hard in this darn yard, and I just felt like it was not enough! Not enough done and the weather is really changing. I have hauled those damn pavers into twenty different locations, and nothing was working in my brain. Sissy came over and looked at the pattern I had had designed and agreed with me. Well sort of as I am a perfectionist and so is Husb. This is why he kept putting the project off. I now understood.
So, I moved the 54 pavers back onto the patio and sulked.
Here are the 111 (yes that many) that I have hauled all over the place for the last 5 months. Here they will stay for the winter until the driveway is completed and I can build paths to the garage door and to the deck so we do not walk too much on the lawn.
I also want to build a pad where my gas grill will go.
What we don't use will go on Facebook Market place!
So, no more moving this stuff for a season.
The side path with I think the dead hostas (we shall see next spring). This area was completely overgrown and Sissy and Dan worked on it for several weekends.
Our plan was to put down a paver path and then mulch around them and then were told (after I bought 20 bags of mulch (most stored in the garage except for what you see at the end of the picture) that we should not put mulch up against the foundation. Lewiston is very buggy, and these critters can enter the home. The first thing I did when we bought this house was to get a monthly contract with a pest company as I had learned this the hard way at sissy's various homes, she has lived in. I would clean the garage of all the spiders and webs, and it would be beautiful and turn around the little bastards were standing at the door of the garage with their suitcases ready to move back in!
Now look at the trees overhanging the fence form the abandoned house property. This is part of the problem as this area is very shady. The concrete pad the A/C unit sits on is part of the problem laying a path as it is crooked to the rear gate. Just not what we want, we are striving for balance. Or we are just too particular. I was just so damn down on Thursday!
Now onto Friday...Husb and I got up and donned our ragged work clothes and headed to the other side of the house and finished putting in the pavers there and it turned out nice, or as nice as we could get it.
I also cut back all the rose bushed and the large hydrangea out front. WE spent five hours outside and were spent.
I felt a little better about things. We decided to go to alate lunch/early dinner and went to Ace hardware and bought a very expensive tree saw. Our plan is to go onto the abandoned house property and trim everything back before the snow flies. I will have to fill the yard containers at least four to six times to get all the crap out of there, but this will give the area lighter, and I hope help with the damn bugs that were eating the hostas.
Our new plan is to use driveway gravel that we will have to haul in in fifty-pound bags and place pavers willy nilly to create a steppingstone path. This will happen next spring. We can easily blow the leaves that do get into this area with our blower out to street in front. Why we did not see this sooner is beyond me, but when we started this past spring, it was so cold, and nothing had blossomed yet.
Live and learn.
Saturday Sissy and I spent three hours shopping together and stocked up on flour and sugar for Christmas baking. We had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs just tooling around Costco looking at everything.
Sunday, I pulled everything from my upper freezer and reorganized and set my menu for the week.
There is so much food in this house, and I must stop buying and start using. Last night we finished the last of the spaghetti sauce and I will not make more until I finish other things.
It is now Monday morning and tonight, I will take beef stew up to Sissy's and have dinner there and will make almond flour popovers. Almond flour has a very low glycemic index which we be good for Husb. Never tried this before and I will keep you posted.
I also swapped my summer and winter wardrobe as it is time and culled another bag of donations for Salvation Army.
I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon and this morning I plan on getting all of my ironing done. Oh joy!
Saga to be continued...
God is good!
Kay
