Around the house

Andy and I have been pretty busy over the past few days.  Mowing the lawn, working on the landscaping, organizing/cleaning up the house, cleaning out the garage, fixing up the spare bedroom, and the list goes on.  We don't have much time left before our lives become super busy with our jobs.  It will be nice this year that Andy doesn't have a fall sport and specifically won't have cross country meets on Saturdays - yay!  I will definitely miss going to the meets, but it will be nice to have two days for the weekend instead of one.

Andy cleaned out the garage so that eventually my car will be able to park in it.  He moved all of our boxes that will stay in permanent storage (Christmas décor, keepsakes, etc.) into our extra bedroom until we can lay plywood down in the attic or rent a small storage building for it.  We then fixed up our guest room.  It's still not ready for pictures yet, but hopefully those will come soon.  Andy also made his kayak rack for the wall in our garage.  Andy's kayak is about 14 feet long which can take up a lot of space especially in a garage.  Andy is always great a researching new DIY projects for the house or the kayak, and of course he found one to hang the kayak on the wall.  It actually turned out quite awesome.

 

 

Today we worked on the landscaping in the front of the house.  We dug up the old plants that we didn't want, took out all of the old mulch that had been there for who knows how long, placed new edging around the flower bed and tree, put new mulch in, changed out the rocks next to the garage and dug up another plant.  My back is currently screaming at me.  I am thinking some Advil before is going to be necessary if I want to be able to move in the morning.  Overall, we are quite pleased with the work we got done.  There is still a lot more to do, but the front of the house looks much cleaner now.

Before

After

I am hoping we don't get in trouble for changing the landscaping.  Apparently, we are supposed to submit a form to the Architectural Review Committee to approve any landscaping changes we make.  Oops, we totally missed that one.  I really don't think they'll make us dig it all up.  It definitely looks much better than it did before!