I Love It When a Plan Comes Together

The famous words of the A-team. I love plans...loooove plans. Problem is they hardly ever work out the way I planned them.

Well, I'm very happy to say that I made plans for this weekend and guess what? It actually worked out! I should mark these days on the calendar so I can celebrate them annually.

Jim had off Friday, today and tomorrow. Three day weekend! Plus Friday night the kids went to their Nan and Paps. After we dropped them off we came home and got to work. I had planned to get the outside looking good. The leaves from last fall were still up against the back of the trailer from the woods behind us. They were about three feet deep, but we got them all cleaned up. We worked outside til dark. Then Jim went this morning to the McElhattan dump and got four yards of mulch. Four yards doesn't sound like much but let me tell you...it is. This entire heaping mass filled the entire bed of Jim's truck. When they filled it they even packed it down with the bucket of the loader. So it was a packed heaping mass.

We worked until about noon and then had to go get the kids. We took a break when we got home and Evie took a well needed nap. We went back to work with the kids helping at 4:30pm and worked again until about 8pm. We finished spreading the mulch all the way around the trailer, re-did the bricks in the front, dug up and transplanted plants, and then Jim mowed. Last but not least because the grass was so long the kids and I worked on raking up the clippings. Phew...job well done.

I can't wait until we can get flowers to spruce things up with. I ordered small hedge fences with solar lights, black iron tree rings with solar lights, and some other stuff for the outside from LTD. I order it through Jim's step mom so it might take a little while to get it since she's waiting for others to place their orders. I'm sure I'll post the pics when I get them.

Before

After

Before

After with the plants I transplanted.

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After

Added a plant to the corner.

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After

Jim thinks these holes were from a central air system that somebody had at one time. Our outdoor cat lives under the trailer and I notice that he always goes in the one and out the other. So I figured I'd paint signs for him. :-)

All the stones I found on the hill behind us.

I found some big ones and thought they'd make good steps.

This is the front where we re-did the bricks.

Evie picking up grass.

Deb picking it up too and getting tired of it.

Logan doing some raking.

Evie getting a ride to the brush pile.

Lots O mulch

I didn't get any pics of Jer. He was inside with a sprained ankle. Poor kid couldn't walk on it.

Good Day

I love the feeling at the end of a day full of hard work. I can't say I enjoy doing the work but at least there's that feeling of satisfaction when it's done. I painted Evie's, and soon to be Deb's as well, room today. Took me a good part of the day but it's done. When I have everything hung on the wall and put together I'll post a pic. I want to try to find a set of bunk beds for them cause the room is rather small. If anybody knows of a set send it my way :)

I've put in place a goal of getting things organized and done that I've been putting off, after all it is the title of my blog. I'm like the queen of procrastination. If the house is messy and a wreck, I'm a royal witch. I'll keep you posted on my progress, and I'm sure my many episodes of witchiness.

I ended the day with giving everyone a haircut. First Logan, then Deb, Jer whined til I cut his cause he wanted to go first, and then evened up Evie's. I planned on cutting Jim's but it got to late. Tomorrow is another day I guess. Too bad I can't cut my own hair - that would be convenient. Guess I'll have to wait until next week when Jim has off again.

Jim went shooting today with his cousin and a friend. They were gone 4-5 hours. Can't say I was completely thrilled to be left at the house with the kids on his day off but I'm glad they all had a good time. Boys and their toys. 

The day went pretty good other then the fact that I did a load of laundry that went wrong. Apparently in a pair of Evie's pants was a pull-up I didn't notice and it got washed with the clothes. When I went to put them in the dryer I discovered they were covered with this clear jellied substance. Nice.....sigh.

We'll see what kind of trouble I can get myself into tomorrow.

Shawn G. shooting a 454