i have been working on our yard for several weeks and i finally feel like i am making progress. i have somehow managed to get both front and back out of their previously wild states and into manageable existences. now all i have to do is not get lazy about it.

we have two big projects coming up in the near future and it’s a little daunting thinking about the amount of work it will take to finish them. the first is our back patio. next weekend we will be demoing the existing concrete slab and leveling the gravel surrounding it to prepare for a new stone/brick/paver? patio. this will more than double the size of the existing patio and greatly improve the look of our back yard.
our second big project is the kitchen. this project compared to my garden/patio projects seems monumental. the goal is to open the room and make more functional counter space. thanks to the help of my parents, we should have plenty of sage building wisdom at our disposal and barring any major disasters, we should get it done.
with all of these projects happening, i have been thinking non-stop about how lucky we are to have people around who want to make life easy on us. we have had an unbelievable amount of contributions from various family members without which we wouldn’t even have a house to do projects to. so i just wanted to say a grand thank you to all of the people who have helped in big and little ways to make all of this happen. so yeah. thanks. <3