Spring Cleaning

I LOVE LOVE LOVE when our yard is all cleaned up and we've raked and bagged up the fall leaves (months late, I know don't get me started!), sometimes we even plant flowers! WHOO HOOO!!! A couple of weeks ago, I paid a kid to rake and bag the leaves on the front lawn. He did ok. He missed a big ole spot on the other side of the driveway, but I had paid him and sent him on his way before I noticed it. Oh well. I've been dreaming of petunias and gerber daisies and a water fixture and some cool stepping stone type thingies..... and maybe even a cool park bench.

If you live in the part of the country that we do, you know the problems that the ground (and lack of rain) can cause on a house's foundation. C and I were recently lamenting the perils of homeownership to some friends of ours when the guy says 'my dad owns his own foundation repair company. do you want an estimate?' Um YES! C has been having nightmare about how much this was going to cost, so he saw this as an opportunity to get an idea w/out being pressured into signing away our um 2nd born! Well, shout hallelujah! the estimate is something we can slightly manage, so we called and said get started. We figured another arid summer was only going to make things worse. With all that being said, that image I described above w/ leafless grass, and flowers and cool water fixtures and whatnot.... yeah, my yard doesn't look like that. AT. ALL. right now. Instead, this is what greets me when I pull in my driveway or walk out my front door.











So NOT the spring look that I was going for. :(

I did find this though...



think it'll live?


~til next time!