day of rest

Today we are taking the day off. Yesterday was “Work On The House Day.” Also known as “Spend An Astounding Amount Of Money At Home Depot Day.”

Husband and the Father-In-Law spent the morning finishing up the cementing in the crawl space, meaning in the next week or two we can finally begin moving stuff into there. Which mean we will be moving stuff out of the 4th bedroom. Which means we can get started on the guest bedroom. Which means I get to pick out paint! Which I love!!

Then all afternoon, we got the foundation prepared for the new shed. And by “we” I mean the guys did 99.5% of the work. I did, however, pick out the spot. So now our backyard looks like this:
Now we get to have two tons of stones delivered to fill in the bottom for the shed to rest on. Does that seem like a lot to you? Like the average weight of a small elephant worth of rocks? To fill up that space? I’m staying out of it, so that I am not responsible when we have 1.5 tons of rocks left over. And we’re also getting loads of dirt delivered, to try and fill in the trench that has formed in our backyard that likes to turn into a swampy river whenever it rains. And we’re getting mulch while we at it, since we’re going to be throwing our backs out anyways.

So today, we are resting. And making a list for our next trip to Home Depot for our housework next Saturday. And taking bets as to whether we’ll break our Home Depot Spending Record. Which is not hard to do, unfortunately.