The Nest

Backyard Project #2 - Complete!

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:13 AM

I'm so sore this morning I can hardly move, but the good news is that our hot tub is now officially up and running (after only a year and a half LoL)! In the past few days we've also been able to get the second flower bed, this one is around our large pear tree, completed and half of our privacy bushes (what a PITA - Did I mention that we have a really long backyard and that we've already had to cut these things once a month?) are now trimmed. Mike has also dug the big-ugly-weedy-bush-looking-thing out of the ground where our patio extension will be going in this weekend. Now, we've just got to:

1.) Finish spray painting the fence (we've only got about 1/4 of this done)

2.) Finish painting half of the garage

3.) Trim the other half of the privacy bushes

4.) Put in patio

It seems like we've come so far but there is always more to do. It's also crunch time for me as I start my fall term classes next Monday - yep, right on Labor Day. I was really bummed that our patio set delivery is now going to be delayed. It was originally supposed to be delivered today but I got a call on Friday from the freight service that there was damage done to the table top in transit and that they are going to reorder a table for us. In the meantime, they're holding onto the rest of the set so that they can deliver everything at the same time I know I'm being a baby about it since we don't even have a big enough patio to set it up on yet and I'd certainly rather have them deal with reordering the table moreso than myself, but patience has unfortunately never been a virtue of mine.