As you may remember, for the last several months, we've been helping Ryan's dad and step-mom do some work on their house so it could be put on the market. Lots of painting for me and lots of all kinds of projects for Ryan.
And since there are only so many hours in a day, we got just a teensy bit behind here at our house while we worked over there. This past weekend, we declared a work day at our own habitat.
Why is that sometimes the hardest decision to make and feel good about? Why is it that we feel crazy guilty for turning down invitations to do something if we are "just" working at home? Our own homes matter, too!
But I digress.
Ryan is such a morning person, so he was up with the sun, getting breakfast and getting everything ready for our work day.
Meanwhile...
I woke up eventually.
We started by taking out a fence around our patio. It seemed like a simple project at the start. Just pull apart the slats, right?
It's all fun and games until you get to the posts buried in cement.
We didn't want to be those neighbors, doing hammer-and-saw projects before 10 a.m. so we abandoned the fence posts and started painting the deck instead.
It took us about two and a half hours to paint and trim out the floor boards, and then we took a break for lunch. It was really hot in the first part of the afternoon, so we took an indoor-work break. Ryan put up a new fan in our room, and I...well, I scrapbooked. That's work too!
Ryan did work really really hard to take out the fenceposts, but it took forever to even knock out one. They were so firmly planted!
So we painted a little more...worked on the fence railing part.
And then Ryan's step-dad came over with the big tools to help knock out the rest of the posts. It was terrifying to watch, but they've been working together for many years, so they knew what they were doing and did everything without injury! (Except to the yard.)
We worked a little bit more on the fence after that, but it got too buggy to continue, so that project remains for another day.
But we made a lot of progress on our project and both of us really enjoyed the chance to be home and work on our own habitat!
2 comments:
What a busy day! How nice to open to the patio to your yard!
It feels like a whole new place now. So strange that something so little (though it didn't feel little ripping it out!) can make such a huge change!
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