What would you rather be doing?
The plan for today was to go to Mr. H's parent's house to watch the Daytona 500. The solitary reader may not realize (being a Californian and all) but NASCAR season has begun. I was personally trying to think of a way out of spending the entire day watching cars go in circles.
We woke up after about 2 hours of solid sleep (sick babies DO NOT SLEEP) and Mr. H announced that before heading out he wanted to get going on the project we discussed yesterday of moving some shrubs in the front yard and making a space for a patio set. It seemed like a great idea. Since I anticipated spending an hour or two on the shrub project before heading off to watch the race, I dressed the baby in her NASCAR bib featuring Carl Edwards. It wasn't good luck for Carl, he crashed.
So during the morning nap we pulled out our shovels and went to town digging out and transplanting shrubs and chainsawing the ones that were too big to move. That left us with a giant stump which required a few hours of pick ax and chainsaw action to remove. Then Mr. H, who as already explained does not half ass his work, cleaned the entire area and put the tools away and finally left for his parent's house with about 30 laps left in a 200 lap race. (It's 500 miles and apparently that translates to 200 laps).
Now we have a nicely cleared area for a patio. All we have left is moving a few more shrubs, laying a patio and perhaps, a picket fence.
Add this to the list of projects in progress...
We woke up after about 2 hours of solid sleep (sick babies DO NOT SLEEP) and Mr. H announced that before heading out he wanted to get going on the project we discussed yesterday of moving some shrubs in the front yard and making a space for a patio set. It seemed like a great idea. Since I anticipated spending an hour or two on the shrub project before heading off to watch the race, I dressed the baby in her NASCAR bib featuring Carl Edwards. It wasn't good luck for Carl, he crashed.
So during the morning nap we pulled out our shovels and went to town digging out and transplanting shrubs and chainsawing the ones that were too big to move. That left us with a giant stump which required a few hours of pick ax and chainsaw action to remove. Then Mr. H, who as already explained does not half ass his work, cleaned the entire area and put the tools away and finally left for his parent's house with about 30 laps left in a 200 lap race. (It's 500 miles and apparently that translates to 200 laps).
Now we have a nicely cleared area for a patio. All we have left is moving a few more shrubs, laying a patio and perhaps, a picket fence.
Add this to the list of projects in progress...
posted by Melissa Haworth at
4:13 PM
1 Comments:
Oy, NASCAR. I'm not sure if I should be more sorry that a) you didn't get much sleep, b) you had to work really hard out in the yard with sharp tools without much sleep, or c) that you had to watch NASCAR. With or without sleep. Period.
Look forward to seeing the awesome patio area-to-be!
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sactownkid, at Sunday, February 19, 2006
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