Hiatus

To say we’ve been on a hiatus is an understatement. It’s been a crazy couple months. Here’s the quick synopsis of the past two months in our house - Mardi Gras, great news – a new job, bad and scary news, tough decisions, Shelby’s surgery, my Mother-in-law’s surgery, and now more tough decisions. I know most of that was vague but to be honest it would take way too long to fill you in on all the details. Suffice it to say we’ve been on hiatus from blogging and home improvements. But I’m happy to announce we’re getting back in the swing of things!

Now, because we’ve been neglecting our home improvement duties the last few weekends have been more maintenance projects then an actual improvements. We hadn’t really cleaned up all the leaves that fell in our yard during the fall and winter so we decided it was finally time to rake and bag the leaves. It was all fun and games for about 10 minutes then I started to think about how sore I was going to be the next day. Thanks to our local Ace Hardware, the same Ace Hardware I went to 3 times before 3pm on Saturday, we found these awesome leaf scooper things. I’m sure they have a real name but I can’t remember what it is. We also got a bag holder that keeps your trash bag upright while you’re scooping leaves into the bags. These two little helpers definitely cut hours off our yard work. 17 full trash bags later we were done racking leaves.

Unfortunately it didn’t stop there. Our porch had been neglected for a while too, so much so that there was a visible layer of pollen covering the porch.  The grass needed to be cut as well. After two weekends of manual labor we have a new found respect for gardeners!