(My first) Tile job

All that is left is to paint the trim.....

I got a break

It was a good weekend. The weather was decent, not great. Only a couple more weeks... We hung out at the house all weekend. We didn't lounge around though, as it is back to work on the house. We accomplished something that has been bugging me since we first saw the house. It was filthy and we managed to pressure wash the entire house, including the rear deck. To me it was a great accomplishment as every time I drove home I noticed the dirty siding. I had been planing on paying someone to do it but ended up doing it myself. I am glad I had the chance to do it. I felt a lot better this weekend. I was very glad to not be sitting in the house with some part of my mouth hurting..........School is over.......The greenhouse is soon to be in action again.........Spring is coming..........Thats about it. It was a good weekend.

Can I get a break?

This is the last week of school and I am so very glad. I finished my final project for design (picture), have completed my Final homework for Spanish, and I am ready to take the final and get it over with. Come on already. I had plenty of time to catch up on my homework as I had a long weekend because of my teeth. I was forced to go to the dentist, and have a tooth yanked. I am so tired of my teeth hurting! I do believe I have solved the problem, as I found out I was confusing the pain in a molar with the wisdom teeth I had just had removed. After two days of excruciating pain I was forced to go to the dentist and face a decision between a fifteen hundred dollar root canal or a considerably cheaper extraction. I chose the later. It is amazing at how the brain will work after a couple days of pain. I feel a huge amount of empathy for people who live in pain. I just want to have a weekend off. No pain, no complications. I feel I may be asking for a miracle. I would just be happy to have a week off of antibiotics. I feel like an old man talking about my aches and pains. It is that my teeth are all that have been happening in my life, so it seems...........ANYWAYS, Anna had her first soccer game(picture), and her team won....The weather is fantastic here. Seventies and fifties. Fantastic. The time change allowed us to hang out in the yard till almost eight. with short sleeves on. Nobody is complaining about that......Speaking of outside I do believe I have figured out what I want to do with the yard. Nailed down a plan, for this week anyway. Now I need to find someones yard to do so that I can have some money to work on mine. Tis' the season. I might even draw up a design. I want to practice more, as I am proficient in drawing skills but I need a lot more practice to be great at drawing. I don't have any problems picking plants or 'the right plants' but I need to master lettering............Rambling. Thats about it. Oh yeah, the temps are finally nice enough for us to put all those cactus outside. Seed flats too. I hope we dont have to bring them in until November.

Cat's B-day

We had Cathrine's birthday party today. It was a lot of fun, we had everyone over to the house for the first time. As a group that is. Cathrine, Anna, and all the other children had a good time. It was nice to have everyone over, and it is especially nice to have a home to host a party. It was a fantastic day outside, with the temperatures flirting with the seventies. Oh man I can smell spring. It makes me want to do some things around the house(on the outside for a change). I did a bit of landscaping this week, and I am glad that I had the chance. I am not finished with the bed, I plan on adding a crepe myrtle, and a couple other plants. I did accomplish one thing, however that I had been putting off. I managed to put down pine straw around the house, and I made a couple of beds around the shrubs and trees. Its getting there. I am getting the gardening itch, it must be getting close to spring.

Warm spring day

Yeah I know it is not spring if you read the header. It feels like it though. It almost made it to seventy degrees today. Crazy weather, what's new. I am not complaining, as it was a nice day to work outside. I did some more painting, this time on the outside. Ah the fresh air. I am surprised that I got anything done, as I had my wisdom teeth removed Friday morning. It wasn't that fun, but it wasn't that bad either. It has been two days and things are getting back to normal. I ate my first solid food in a couple days tonight for dinner. No more soup! I am still feeling a little groggy. We have been knocking out things around the house. We are close to being "unpacked", and the whole upstairs is painted. It feels like home now. Oh, but there is so much still to do.....I started back to school this week, and good grief four days a week is going to kick my ass. The most I have done previously is two days a week. I am taking design, which will be educational and challenging. Lots of technical drawing. Spanish is my other class. It feels like I am in high school again, as I had three years of Spanish in those days. It will be a breeze, but we are forced to converse and study in groups. It will be frustrating, as most of the people in the class have never spoken any Spanish before. Oh well. Time for some more Ibuprofen. Teeth, or places where my teeth were previously are hurting. Later.

The leaves are STILL falling

I have found my new least favorite thing to do. That would be blowing leaves. Five days a week, eight hours a day. Yeah....It is a rare Sunday, as I have no homework, and we finished early at the greenhouse. We even had time to cook a good dinner. Thanksgiving is coming and I am looking forward to it. We all have four day weekends coming up. We finally planted the beds and cleaned up around the greenhouse. The beds are nothing special, I used only the left over stuff we grew. They will mature nicely, as long as the damn deer don't eat them. The population of deer must be decreasing, as all I hear at the greenhouse is distant rifle fire. Thinning of the heard. They have been a real nuisance this year. I planted about fifty bulbs in the beds and the deer have been digging them up. Pain in the.......We found the house we want. We even put a bid in. We were underbid, and did not get it. That was a bummer. It did however give us more time to get a better loan. Now we have everything ready to go except for a stinking house. There is not much to choose from, and even less to choose from in our price range. This area is growing so fast it is hard to believe. It will be completely different in five years. I am sure will will find a house I just don't know how soon. I just want a house under 150 that is worth buying. It sounds stupid, but we need some more subdivisions. Never thought I would say that. It will be time for the minivan soon. Good grief.......School is good, I am taking Design and Spanish next quarter. Spanish will be no problem, design will be interesting.......The girls are good, the 'Valerie' is good.....