Week ending 9/10/10

On Saturday, we spent a few hot, laborious hours working on the patio. We dug up the top level of dirt in a small area to see how hard it would be to excavate the whole thing enough to lay down pavers or something else. After a few hours, it was clear that it wasn't worth it for us to do this job and we decided to just let our gardener put in a paver patio. I'm not thrilled with the solution we came up with, but it's the best available so onward and upward.

Here's Danny helping out. I'm sure he's confused about why the people get to dig and he doesn't.


Here I am using a pick to break up the top level of soil.





I still haven't figured out the kitchen paint yet. On Tuesday, I got a quart of the existing color in semi-gloss to see how we like it. The current paint is eggshell, which gets too trashed from the dogs. Unfortunately, they don't sell samples in semi-gloss so I had to get a quart.

Here's another piece of junk we found in the yard. Red glass this time. I really think the people who had this house before us just threw their trash in the yard.