digging out these stumps ... well, it sucks
if anyone has any hint of ambition to help dig out these stumps, please let me
know. applications are now being accepted for any and all shifts. i managed to dig up around about 2 1/2 of the remaining stumps, but it was painful. i have to believe it's just about the most frustrating digging known to mankind. here is a typical digging sequence. (1) insert shovel (2) hit rock (3) insert shovel (4) hit roots (5) repeat steps 1 through 4 approximately 10 times (6) insert shovel (7) dig out dirt (8) go to step 1. occasionally you have the joy of chopping out some roots just to mix things up. Chrissy was a bit confused why i was so frustrated with it ... so i let her dig for a few minutes. it took one shovel for her to understand. i'm gonna try to get the next 2 dug out partially over the next few days then let Tony yank the suckers out. a note to all who ever do landscaping at their house. please, dig out your stumps after you cut down shrubs to save the next homeowners the surprise task of doing it.ok, so we did some other stuff also. we got the stairway walls primed! finally. this is one we've put off too long. we decided to go ahead and paint the whole upstairs landing area the same color (top color from the living room). we talked about finding a place to transition to something slightly different, but decided it'd be easier to just use the same color everywhere. we have enough leftover anyway and the color will look great up there. painting the stairwell is an interesting task with the height involved, but the amazing Swiss Army ladder made it very do-able. i only almost fell once. Hazel only got primer on her once also, still not sure how. hopefully some evening this week we'll finish the final coat on the areas we've primed. sorry, no pictures of this work yet ... i'll get one when it's done. painting here is frustrating also (thankfully for me, Chrissy did the rest of the house when i was doing the floors), as we find more of the endless poor previous painting and patching work. we just can't understand the thought process that lets someone leave enormous runs in a paint job ... or hideous patching. i know i'm pretty much a perfectionist, but seriously folks. i complain about their work a lot don't i? hmm.
let's see ... we also did some yard clean-up (it seems to be some sort of trash magnet) and pruned the rose of sharon bush in the backyard -- the only piece of landscaping
we really have at the moment. we've also been working on planning what we'll do with the rest of the landscaping ... and probably sometime this week our expert will show up to give us some ideas (a friend from college who does landscaping). i've been playing with the house in CAD to help planning. i spent most of the time getting the house looking right (what i could reach is to scale), but threw in a couple quick plants to see what things would look like with some greenery.looks like just about anything up front will help. hopefully in the next week or two we'll have a plan in place and can get started planting.oh, remember Project #4 "Green me up, Scottie"? well, let's see what weed-n-feed does to a
yard with more weeds than grass. pretty nice eh? i thought i should take this picture soon because the seeding i did a few weeks ago i starting to grow ... so hopefully these bare spots will start to disappear. the plan is still to tear out the whole thing this fall and start over (and do some needed grading along the house at the same time). we'll see what the ambition level is come August/Sept.we toured 2 other houses this weekend ... one older, one newer than ours. we chatted with Tony and Allison from across the street for a while on Sunday and they showed us around their old house (and we gave them the updated tour of ours). they've got a great place there. Saturday we went over to Brad and Rachel's (Chrissy's friend from college) for dinner. they are now in their nice new house. it's so weird to be in a new house where things aren't crooked, cracked, creaky, etc. ... someday.
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 11:33 PM
5 Comments:
Can't you rent like a little baby backhoe or something from your local good ol' boys?
this years what yee need...
pulaski
theoretically, could rent something. but that costs money and stuff. plus it would tear up our pretty lawn :-)
pulaski, that's pretty neat. but i don't think lowe's carries those.
Let me know when, and I'll come help with planting! Not sure about the stump digging. (I've got one myself that needs to come out) I plan to bring some mint tea(plants)when I come!
mam
I like cheese!!
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