Saturday, August 1, 2009

Recent Activities: Pictures

Like I said, it's been a while. We haven't had time to get too much done, but we're making progress, I suppose. 

First, Eric realized a long-time dream of his: to be the proud owner of a grill. He's using this opportunity to eat as many hamburgers, brats, and steaks as his tummy will allow. 


After the deck construction project, the yard around it was pretty much ravaged, so we figured we'd put in some planting areas. Our lovely neighbors Ryan and Laurin had a big pile of great old bricks that they were willing to donate to the cause. These are old school bricks--huge, glazed, with raised printing indicating that they were fired in Brazil, Indiana. Super cool. Our plants are doing okay, particularly the ones with the pink flowers. I'm hoping that next summer is when they really take off. 


The deck, while functioning, is nowhere close to finished, mainly because Eric has decided to make it into an architectural wonder. As you can see, the completed side on the right is great looking. However, we have to extend that all the way around. It may well be next summer before it actually gets done. I am okay with this. 



One area where we have made some progress is the downstairs half bath. Now that I reflect, I'm not sure why I had such a bee in my bonnet about getting it trimmed out, other than Eric had already purchased the wood and it was sitting in the dining room. Anyway, I primed everything this morning, and we'll be ready to paint in a bit. We're using a lovely Sherwin-Williams approved color scheme, and I'm pretty excited about how it's going to turn out.


Overall, this summer has been absolutely wonderful. We haven't turned the AC on since June, it's been so nice and cool. Despite that, our tomato plant is flourishing. We have 5 or 6 tomatoes getting ready to ripen! 



Finally, our puppies continue to entertain us. Eric is realizing slowly that he is not the boss. 




2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lol @ 'architectural wonder.' But wow, what a deck that's going to be when it's done. I love what I can see so far.

Did you guys fare okay during Tuesday's storm? Wasn't that insane? Irvington was hit pretty hard--so sad to lose so many old, grand trees. Hope you had minimal damage in the H-M area.

testing said...

Hi Haley,

Just want to let you know about our Best Home Renovation Contest! There's a chance to win up to $2,700.

Here's the link for more information:
http://www.repair-home.com/project/

You have some great projects that qualify for the contest!

Have a great day,
Isabela