Fence Painting: Check

Check out our forsythia! It's really pretty exciting to discover all the lovely flowers and things blooming. We find something new every day! Normally, that's a scary thing, but with the garden, it's actually quite nice.

I finished painting the fence today. So in addition to three hours yesterday (doing the outside) I spent another 6 hours today, doing the inside and between all the boards. That's a lot of time to paint a fence. Admittedly, that includes a bike ride to the hardware store today to get a second gallon of paint. The whole job took about a gallon and a half. Here are some shots of the work. Notice the rose bushes blocking some of the fence. My arms are all kinds of torn up from the thorns. Ow!





So now the fence is looking lovely and I have a necessary job crossed off the list (I like crossing things off the list). Next outdoor task: the deck. It needs a new coat of weather-proofing, and before that, it needs a good washing. But that will have to wait until another weekend. These chores just don't stop. SIgh.


Jake was also doing some outdoor work, attempting to finish moving the dirt to the necessary places in the back yard. Unfortunately, our well-wrapped pile of dirt was so well-wrapped (and yet not quite well enough wrapped) that it was in fact a pile of mud. Since the mud was too muddy, Jake took on some demolition instead. There was this weird fenced-in area on the right side (kitchen side) of the house; we believe it was sort of a dog kennel/cage for the previous owner's dog. We have no need for such a thing, and it's really a bit of an eyesore, as you can see here:

And here, the new and improved situation:



These are the beautiful tiny blue flowers that have popped up all over our back yard. I don't know what they are, but I like them.