Time for Yardwork!
May. 13th, 2016 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprig~~It's Spring! It's time for all the chores~~
We've come to the time of year when I can almost rely on the weather not being frosty overnight - it reached the 70's yesterday! (Low 20s C) - so now is the time for all the yardwork, and planning all of the house stuff.
I've started keeping a notebook, writing down everything that I need/want to do on the house. I think a couple basic things in the bathroom & the foyer are first there - especially the things we already have everything for.
But that's this weekend. I started on the garden way back in March - the peas I planted are coming up; the carrots & beets aren't. But that means it's time for another round of seeds of both of those.
We won't put starts in the ground until Memorial Day, but my Egyptian Walking Onions, Horseradish, mint, chives, and oregano are already up from last year.
And I've been making fire!
We have a Giant Brush Pile I've been working on knocking down, with the help of an electric chipper-shredder (mostly last year) and a small fire pit. Now that's fun - sitting out there feeding wood into the pit, the table ton my lap, writing in between chopping up wood for the fire.
And last year's firewood is mostly cured, so it moves into the garage now - it's stacked along the garage door wall for the first year, to get the sun - to make room for the wood we'll be ordering in a week or two. It's hard, satisfying work with direct, tangible results. I like it.
Of course, today it's raining. Maybe I'll work on a skirt this evening.
We've come to the time of year when I can almost rely on the weather not being frosty overnight - it reached the 70's yesterday! (Low 20s C) - so now is the time for all the yardwork, and planning all of the house stuff.
I've started keeping a notebook, writing down everything that I need/want to do on the house. I think a couple basic things in the bathroom & the foyer are first there - especially the things we already have everything for.
But that's this weekend. I started on the garden way back in March - the peas I planted are coming up; the carrots & beets aren't. But that means it's time for another round of seeds of both of those.
We won't put starts in the ground until Memorial Day, but my Egyptian Walking Onions, Horseradish, mint, chives, and oregano are already up from last year.
And I've been making fire!
We have a Giant Brush Pile I've been working on knocking down, with the help of an electric chipper-shredder (mostly last year) and a small fire pit. Now that's fun - sitting out there feeding wood into the pit, the table ton my lap, writing in between chopping up wood for the fire.
And last year's firewood is mostly cured, so it moves into the garage now - it's stacked along the garage door wall for the first year, to get the sun - to make room for the wood we'll be ordering in a week or two. It's hard, satisfying work with direct, tangible results. I like it.
Of course, today it's raining. Maybe I'll work on a skirt this evening.
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Date: 2016-05-13 02:58 pm (UTC)1. Laundry Room In Basement Finished
Previous owners had started to set up a really nice laundry room, I want to water proof the basement and get it finished up as a nice laundry area and possibly a little workout space for a pole, some free weights and hula-hooping
2. Yard Work!
I'm allergic to grass, so we want to get some large planters boxes and then let the rest of the yard become flowers and pathstones. We'll grow veggies and some grains and such and I can relax in the front porch without sneezing.
3. FRONT PORCH speaking of, it needs torn down and rebuilt to be a bit larger/nicer (so contracting THAT mess out, like srsly)
4. BUILD A DECK IN THE BACK YARD
for less yard and for grilling and sun bathing
5. Fully Fence in back yard
for doggies (also sunbathing)
6. Level out the back yard
previous owners parked their camper back there and it's unlevel and not pretty
7. General landscaping!
weeding, planting, mowing (done by wife)
That's the non-major construction projects we want done. We also want to see about fixing the bad addition on the house (it's not BAD BAD, but it's not pretty like the rest of the house. Basically we own a sort of 1920s craftsman and want to bring it out to it's old looking glory.
XD OH HOME OWNERSHIP!!
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Date: 2016-05-13 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-13 05:05 pm (UTC)