Starting Two Projects Today!

Two last projects to start in October 2011 before going indoors. Lori thinks we need stairs going down from the Kitchen deck to have better access to the lower deck. I guess that makes sense so we won't have to take food and stuff out through the front door and around the house to the back or take it through the livingroom to the stairs, go downstairs and wind through the boxes and then out the basement door. As long as we had to pour a cement pad at the bottom of the stairs and because having the stairs might make it more difficult to mow around my wife suggests, (isn't she a sly manipulater) "We might as well put a nice patio right here under the deck and out the basement door!" Sounded good at the time, and she did help me to cement in the poles and frame the landing for the stairs. Here I am shoveling more dirt, hauling more rocks and pounding out a level base for the stone patio! Where's my wife, you might ask? She works every other saturday at the bank!

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Making Extra Garden Space

In May 2011 after the weather started warming up I figure it's time to start planting the garden. The garden area last year just wasn't big enough for all I want to plant so this year I am enlarging it and using the railroad ties to frame it since that has always worked well for me. There are peas planted under the tarp and I am experimenting with garbage can potatoes.

I want to try some blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and strawberries but didn't know where to plant them. Then Lori came up with this good idea to terrace the hill down in front of the deck so here is my newest project for the summer of 2011.

Crown molding in the Master Bedroom

Now that the closet is done we want to paint the bedroom and bathroom too. Lori bought a new bed ensemble and now thinks she has to have crown molding, window trim and paint to make everything look nicer.... Easier said than done, but 'll give it a try. The bedroom can't take long. We started in April 2010 just after the basement project was finished. I actually got all the moulding up in one day and finished caulking in three days. Doesn't look half bad, just half good! Now Lori's turn to start painting.