I woke up bright and early yesterday with the intention of being productive.
I had asked The Husband Friday night, if he would fix the paint on the porch floor yesterday. He informed me that the front porch WAS his priority. When I laughed and said, "Yeah, right." He responded with, "I've been married to you long enough to know - you bought furniture for the front porch, which is still sitting in the garage - I know what my priority is tomorrow."
Smart man.
Unfortunately, when I went out to get the paper, I knew immediately that painting the front porch floor was out of the cards - it was too humid. I'm sure he was relieved.
Mainly, because of the heat and humidity, not much was accomplished yesterday. Which meant that the list of all that needed doing kept spinning around in my mind - making me stressed.
Finally, I sat down and did what I should have from the very beginning - I wrote a list. A VERY detailed list that included ALL the projects that need to be done along with ALL the steps needed to complete each project.
When will I remember that I am a person that NEEDS handwritten lists to soothe my nerves?
This morning dawned much less humid and fairly cooler. So, The Husband and I went our separate ways to run our various errands and then met back home for lunch. After eating, he went to clean the front porch but unfortunately it was too late and still a little too humid to actually paint. He plans to do that next weekend, if the weather permits (please Mother Nature cooperate - otherwise I'm afraid we will have to wait for the fall).
While he was dealing with that, I headed out to the backyard to get dirty. Despite my moaning about not being productive, I have been making headway on my backyard project, small bites at a time.
Easter weekend found me digging up daffodils and day lilies to hand over to a co-worker as her son and daughter-in-law just bought a house and were doing their own backyard dreaming. Unfortunately, I had WAY more than they could use. So the majority of the day lilies will have to be disposed of but I did find a taker for the daffodils - particularly since she doesn't need to plant them until the fall.
This afternoon found me digging up and relocating irises. Again, I had WAY more than I needed - but the same beneficiary of the daffodils also wanted irises - again because she doesn't need to plant them until the fall - truly, I shouldn't complain about all I have to do as she has a newborn AND just moved AND has two older children with MANY activities.
All I have left to do to return the yard to the way it should be is relocate the hostas, seed the two areas with grass and have The Husband remove the godawful bird house...
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| Just a reminder as to how ugly it is. |
then I can move on to the fun part....adding some of my favorites to the yard. And prodding The Husband to put in a path from the front to the back. I think once I mark this project Done then I will feel more motivated to move on to the other projects.
- Like painting the Master Bath
- Painting the exterior door to the garage
- Painting the back door
- Re-building and painting the back steps
- Having someone come in and sand the guest bath (apparently, someone removed wallpaper from that room and didn't do it properly which means that the glue keeps bleeding through the paint which is fairly horrifying when you walk in there)
- Painting the front porch floor and eventually placing the furniture out there
- The endless weeding...
- ...and the list goes on and on and on...
I have suggested to The Husband that we should both take a couple of days off to get some these things knocked off the list as weekends are usually filled with weekly errands and duties (laundry!) and he agreed. So hopefully soon, we will give ourselves a long weekend and get some more things done...which will go a long way to easing my mind about everything that needs to be done.
The list is pretty long, all right, and it seems like everything hinges on everything else getting done. I think your backyard is pretty, although there's not much grass, is there? :-)
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