We intentionally kept our weekend low-key so that we could get stuff done around the house. We are mostly unpacked, however, we have a lot of stuff stored in the basement. I still have no idea how we managed to fit all of the stuff that we have in our house now in our old condo. It blows my mind! Our shelves in the basement are filled with boxes. And we gave away a bunch of stuff during our move. Well, thank God for basements.
We spent Saturday morning cleaning out the garage. I have been parking in the garage for about 2 weeks now. WS had been parking in the driveway because one side of the garage still had boxes. So, we were able to unpack the last few boxes and clear out the garage. Now we have both been able to park! The garage isn't very big. My car is an econo-sized car and it barely fits on my side. WS parks in the larger side, but he's squeezed in too. I park right up against the lawn mower. WS has the trash on his side. But, at least we're able to use it.
On Saturday afternoon E helped me clear the ivy in the side yard. We cut and pulled and really did a pretty good job of clearing the ivy from the fence and the side of the house. The Landscaper will spray the ivy that was actually growing from the ground. Surprisingly, a lot of it was just coming over the fence from the neighbor's yard. That was pretty easy to cut and pull. We also decided to explore our neighborhood a little bit on Saturday afternoon. Our neighborhood has trails winding through most of the streets that lead to the park. We took a trail on the next street over and walked about 10 minutes to the playground at the park. Willow Creek park is pretty big. The majority of it is used for football and soccer games. The playground is pretty small. E enjoyed the playground though. We came back home up another trail that took us over the creek. We ended up on another neighboring street.
Sunday was devoted mostly to watching the Broncos game (I didn't watch much of it, but WS was glued) and working in the yard. At the very back of the yard was a garden. Actually I can't call it a garden. It was more like a plant explosion. It seems like there were just random overgrown plants in a bed. WS wanted to pull everything out of there because there were some pretty nice rocks that he spotted buried underneath the plants. He's hoping that our landscaper can use them somewhere else in the yard. So, he decided to dig up all of the plants and pull everything. He was pretty successful. There were a few "trees' that wouldn't come out easily, so he's just leaving them for the landscaper.
Every time WS lifted a rock he saw something new. Wolf spiders, huge night crawlers, and strange bugs. He also found a snake. That was kind of neat. We showed it to E and she got a kick out of it. While WS was working at digging up the garden, I decided to prune the plants that were on the edges of the yard. I have no idea how to prune. So, I hope that I didn't mess the plants up. It's all a learning experience.
Our landscape crew has been here for the last 2 days. They've been pulling plants and today they're planting sod. We really are lucky that the weather has been relatively warm still. The ground hasn't had a freeze yet. We're hoping that the sod will take before that happens.
E started a new preschool on Monday. I really don't want to go into too much detail about her last preschool, but I felt that this was a better choice. She's at a Lutheran preschool that's about 1/2 way to my work. That means that I'm taking her in the morning and picking her up. It's worth it to me to have that extra job. So far she seems to be enjoying it. She was at a Lutheran preschool in LA and we really thought that it was wonderful. We're hoping that this is similar.
Enjoy the week!
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