Work In Progress Wednesday

Well, we're getting back into the swing of things and Mark has been busy busy busy! After realizing that our landscaping is pretty much just weeds, clovers and dandelions, we decided we need to put that higher on our priority list... I admit, I'm quite a bit embarrassed by our yard and kind of convinced Mark to put it at the top of our list. I'm afraid we might have to just re-do our whole yard, it's soooooo bad.

The other thing we're working on is tearing our our deck... it was built by the previous owner and did a terrible job and it's in sad shape and also causing damage to the house so we decided to take out the deck and build a patio. We'll hire someone to make steps but we're going to lay the patio ourselves. Mark bought a palette of cement tiles that were on sale and was quite the story hauling it all home... even the biggest rental truck it was too heavy for. We had no clue it was going to be such a huge deal. After many times of the alarm going off on the truck and moving it around, they were finally able to get it to where the alarm didn't go off.... which begs to question... why sell something that nobody can haul home, lol. Well, Mark got it home finally w/o the alarm going off and quickly unloaded the 3,000+ lbs of tiles into our backyard and got the truck back within the 75 minute rental time. WOOT! Now to find some limestone to lay down below so that we can get started.

Next will be renting a rototiller and start digging out all giant weeds and trying to fix the landscaping and plant some more grass.



ETA:
OK, Mark just linked me up to THIS and now I want to do that to our patio, how cool is that!