Feeling Accomplished

Wow I got a lot done this weekend. Alas there are no pretty pictures this time.

It is all a blur really, I can't remember everything exactly how it happened but the weekend felt long and although I got a lot done I also felt like I had plenty of time to relax and goof off, which I did as well.

Firstly, Honey and I were able to get some regular maintenance things done. The whole house was swept or vacuumed, the dishes were done and some laundry was taken care of. I even washed the dog blanket and the dogs! They got their nails clipped too. Milo doesn't like it but he holds still for me but Mina hates it. The poor thing is terrified so we wrapped her in a towel and Honey held her while I clipped as quickly as possible.

She also killed another squirrel and brought it into the house while we were out grocery shopping. She was barking at it wildly and it hit me funny that she was in the house, barking her head off at a dead squirrel. We also picked up a stray dog and brought him home. It was a little Scottie dog who turned out to be named Bogie. My Aunt and Uncle (they live next door) found his owner while we were off shopping.

I was able to finally get my winter clothes washed and put away for the summer. You may think it is a little too late for that, and although they could have easily gone into storage several months ago, they'll be in there several months still before it cools off again. The laundry process isn't finished. I need to de-wrinkle all the clean warm weather clothes and put them away properly. I think laundry is the bane of my existence.

On Saturday I mowed the front and back yards and Honey edged the driveway. He had gone to get his haircut and jumped in on the lawn maintenance action when he returned.

Yesterday I finished my plans for cleaning up the backyard. Due to the hot summer weather we've had some leaves falling and the yard actually needed to be raked! I was happy the temperature was cool because raking in mid August is just ridiculous. After that I got the hoe and rearranged the dirt around all the holes the dogs have dug. By rearrange I mean I turned the mounds around the holes back into the holes to fill them and level out the ground as best as I could. It isn't perfect, but it is better. I think we'd have to bring in a tiller to level the whole yard now. I'm sure they'll dig more, but the old holes are now filled instead of hidden by tall grass. It's dangerous out there!

After that I went into the shed to get the spreader to spread some grass seed in the bare places but was sidetracked by the messy shed. So I also cleaned and organized the shed as it had gotten cluttered and out of control. Just as I was finishing it started to sprinkle so I grabbed the spreader and got the grass seed down quickly. Perfect timing!

Before all of the hole filling but after the raking I also paved a 72"x24" area with bricks and pavers for our garbage, recycle and yard trash bins. The 3 pavers that were there were used as part of the expanding porch project but we didn't want those bins to sit on the bare ground, plus we had a surplus of free bricks to use so I made a new spot for the bins to sit.

Somewhere in all of this I managed to watch about 6 hours of TV and play World of Warcraft for a few hours as well.

It feels really good to get so much done.