The Honey Do List

So about six weeks ago I ended up making a list of projects in the house that needed to get finished. The list ended up being a complete regular notebook page long. It was mostly Scott's "Honey Do List" that we had talked about but that had been being put off for awhile since we were waiting to get our taxes back. So since Scott was only working three days a week he started to work on the list while I was at work. Working opposite schedules is really hard because Scott and I get along really well doing projects together. (I know. I know couples that can't do these kind of projects together because they would end of getting divorced). Scott and I luckily aren't like that. He always likes to bounce things off of me and I sometimes can give a different precpetive. So since he has been working on the list like a mad man we now finally have some things to post on the blog. Scott and I are extremely sore from this last weeks adventures of pullings weeds, putting up rain gutters, putting in the landscaping, and then also laying sod. Even though I've played sports all my life I don't even think D-Day at basketball camp made me this sore. I'm so glad the really hard stuff is done. Now we can enjoy it. I actually put the pictures on the blog in order of when we did them. You might want to start at the beginning of the new posts because they will make more sense if you do. Hopefully we won't have to wait so long to post again. We are going to try and take more pictures and be better bloggers.

Instant Gratification

So this is what we call instant gratification. Isn't green a wonderful looking color. Oh I never thought I would say that although it is Scott's favorite color. Scott and I both just have been looking at it going holy cow we can't believe how much better our back yard looks. It's also a huge relief to finally have it done. Yes it was back breaking work but I will take that over having to watch seed grow any day. Scott and I had actually made it through two and a half pallets out of five before Opie and my friend Janiece showed up. When they showed up we breezed through the the last two pallets in about thirty minutes. I kept telling Scott I had this fear we weren't going to have enough sod. I was right. We ended up having to order another 750 square feet more thinking we would still have some left over. We had about 2 square feet left. So if anyone knows how to figure out squre feet of an area I would love to know how to calculate that. Obviously Scott and my math skills are a little rusty. I had ordered 2200 square feet in the first place and we though we would have extra. No such luck.















































Scott was in charge of the actual laying of the sod.











I got to be in charge of the hauling it from the pallet across the dirt to wherever Scott was at laying the sod.

Dirt, Dirt, & more Dirt

Scott and I always seem to have this problem at remembering to get the camera out before we start a project. So this is about half way through our lawn project. Just imagine all the dirt that you see in our whole back yard filled with every kind of weed you can think of. It took Scott and myself everyday for a week working anywhere between four to five hours a day to get all the weeds cleared so that we could lay our sod on Monday. I about killed myself on Saturday because I wasn't going into the house until it was finished. So all the weeds pulled and the grubs killed. Yes we found out that we had grubs while we were weeding. So used a grub killed and killed them before we laid our brand new sod down. So this is actually the first part of this project finished. Just straight dirt.














This is the side of the house showing just dirt. You can see the sod pallets though. There are five of them there.













See you can tell at what point we remembered the camera. We had actually gotten a couple rows of sod down before we remembered to do before and after shots.

Rain Gutter

Scott and my little brother Paul worked on the rain gutters last week. It ended up being quite the ordeal. I was out back working on pulling the weeds out of the yard so we can lay sod and they did the rain gutter. I kept getting called to the front to pick up a tool or a bracket because they kept having them slip out of their fingers. So only one out of the two rain gutters got put up. We will see though if it works. We really wanted to have the chain though because we thought it looked pretty cool. I think it looks really good.