The front yard is almost where I want it...

[miladycarol]

I’ve spent my morning manicuring the lawn. I’ve uncovered yet more of the sidewalk and curb in the front. My lawn had overgrown it’s boundaries and was starting to set roots on top of the concrete. Alas, my front yard fu is weak. I guess I really just don’t care about curb appeal. I’m not planning on selling my house and, since we live on such a busy street, I have opened all my front lawn for parking to my friends. Plus, if the house looks trashy to the passer-by, who am I to want to change their opinion?

I also fed and watered the plants and performed maintenance on my push-mower. Now I think I’ll hit the shower and go to the local nursery. They are having an anniversary sale and I’m anxious to buy a few new pots and some more soil. Sadly, this will require the car. I have managed up to 50# of soil on the back of my bike before, but I’d like to buy the pots as well, so I don’t think that I can practically transport all those items simultaneously any other way than the car. Gah.

Tomorrow morning… I tackle the house cleaning! Stay tuned!

EDIT: It looks like the trip to the nursery is postponed until tomorrow morning. The dishes have made it abundantly clear to me that they have no intention of cleaning themselves and, since in the meantime, I have decided to invite company over for crêpes tonight after dinner, I need to make said crêpes and marinate the peaches. Not to mention tidying the table and deck for guests. So, I'm off to tidy.

Comments

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I hate tearing up your front yard like that.

[miladycarol.livejournal.com]

I don't consider it tearing up the front yard because it's not really a yard. It needs to be utile for the lack of street parking anywhere near the house. I really wish more people would park on the grass first to leave room for later visitors in the driveway.

As I said, curb appeal isn't my goal. I'm making an effort to trim the lawn off the sidewalk because the grass is starting to tear up the concrete. I don't want the town to come down on me to replace the sidewalk, otherwise, I wouldn't care.

[pjack.livejournal.com]

The dishes have made it abundantly clear to me that they have no intention of cleaning themselves...

You don't take no guff from those dishes! You march right back into the kitchen and lay down the law! Stupid lazy dishes, I tell ya...

Pjack

[miladycarol.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, I washed them all, then I was about to clean the counter but I needed to use the bathroom first. By the time I returned to the kitchen a mere moment later, there were more dirty dishes in the sink. How does this happen?!? My theory is that imps live in my dish cupboards and they just periodically add more spent dishes to the pile for me. *rolls eyes*