Work, Work, Work

Well I must say I was glad to see Monday come this week. We have so much going on the next few weeks we used this weekend to do home repair projects. Steve and I have been trying to hold off on turning on the AC this year, not for any particular reason just to see how well we can do without it. TO help with this we drug the old screens for the windows out of the attic and washed them off. It had been many a moons since these had been used. We had siding put on the house 5 years ago and the windows were not sized corectly to fit with the trim and siding. SO steve began the project by trimming the screens down using his new circular saw, talk about excited, a man with a new tool! Once that was done I scraped and painted all of the screens before we could hang them on the house. Lucky for us it was 87 degrees on Sunday so the paint dried very quickly. Once the screens were dry steve attached new hooks and hung all of the screens on the windows.

In between all of this we bought a new wooden 5 foot swing for the back yard. We had a friend leave a metal swing frame at our house last year but we have never done anything with it. Well Sunday Steve put the swing together while I spray painted the metal frame and once the swing was together I stained the swing a beautiful Pecan gloss. For anyone who has never stained let me warn you of a valuable lesson I learned! That stain is STICKY and is horribly hard to get off of your hands so wear gloves or be much more careful than I was!

Three years ago I purchased an umbrella for the yard but since we never had a patio we never took it out of the box. Well Sunday Steve decided to break it out and put it togther. I was extrmemly impressed and happy with how nice the umbrella was. It had been a 100 plus dollar umbrella that I got on clearence for 25 dollars at Bed Bath and Beyond, after seeing this thing I think I got the deal of the century! Steve also built a ramp for our storage building he and my dad put up in the fall. He plans on building flower beds around it this month so that no little critters can live under it.

Needless to say after all of this activity we were hot, tired and sunburnt! We did both sleep like babies that night and are very happy with all of the work we got done. I am happy to report it was 87 here again yesterday and we had all the windows open and I loved it! Today is much cooler at 80 degrees and we have a very nice cool breeze blowing through.

We are going floating this weekend so I will start getting ready for that this evening. We love going to the river with my family and our friends, its peaceful and relaxing. Of course with steve it is always entertaining! I am sure I will have lots of stories to post and pictures to share when we get back!