Update on Hillbilly Lane
Last night my friend Meghan came over to the house and ate dinner with us. I've been dying to get the back patio cleaned off for quite some time. Okay, first a little background.....
When I had my first daughter I decided I would be the only person in the world that could feed her, if you get my drift.... so in the beginning, she would wake up and since I wasn't allowed to bring her into the bed with me, I would walk to the living room, sit on the couch and nurse her, then walk her back to her room 30 minutes later and by the time I would get back into bed, I couldn't go to sleep until about 10 minutes before it was time for her to eat again. Well, when my father-in-law came to visit to see his granddaughter for the first time, he asked my husband if we needed anything. Jason told him a chair for the babies room would be good, but it couldn't be a rocker because he didn't want her becoming accustomed to being rocked to sleep. Anyway, he bought this beautiful blue recliner, which had to be oversized because my butt was huge. I became terribly depressed when I would sit down in one and the sides of my butt would rub.... back to the point of the story, I'm rambling.......
Last night the 9 1/2 year old chair, which has seen it's better days, was tossed into the trash. After living through breastfeeding 2 children and being the dog bed for a labrador/I don't know mix, it was definitely time for it to go. It was quite nice to have a recliner on the back patio until the dog discovered how comfortable it was. Tonight, I'm bleaching the back patio. This weekend I am replacing the trim on the back of my house, around the windows and rebuilding the "pump house". But for the most part, I feel pretty dang good about my accomplishments. It took me until today to figure out how to "rebuild the pump house". Pretty proud of that too. It's actually a pretty simple idea. Remove old siding (T111), hopefully in one piece. Place old piece on top of new piece. Trace with a pencil. Cut out. Put in place and nail. Duh!!!! It took a while to figure it out, I may be slow in the processing field, but at least i get it done.
When I had my first daughter I decided I would be the only person in the world that could feed her, if you get my drift.... so in the beginning, she would wake up and since I wasn't allowed to bring her into the bed with me, I would walk to the living room, sit on the couch and nurse her, then walk her back to her room 30 minutes later and by the time I would get back into bed, I couldn't go to sleep until about 10 minutes before it was time for her to eat again. Well, when my father-in-law came to visit to see his granddaughter for the first time, he asked my husband if we needed anything. Jason told him a chair for the babies room would be good, but it couldn't be a rocker because he didn't want her becoming accustomed to being rocked to sleep. Anyway, he bought this beautiful blue recliner, which had to be oversized because my butt was huge. I became terribly depressed when I would sit down in one and the sides of my butt would rub.... back to the point of the story, I'm rambling.......
Last night the 9 1/2 year old chair, which has seen it's better days, was tossed into the trash. After living through breastfeeding 2 children and being the dog bed for a labrador/I don't know mix, it was definitely time for it to go. It was quite nice to have a recliner on the back patio until the dog discovered how comfortable it was. Tonight, I'm bleaching the back patio. This weekend I am replacing the trim on the back of my house, around the windows and rebuilding the "pump house". But for the most part, I feel pretty dang good about my accomplishments. It took me until today to figure out how to "rebuild the pump house". Pretty proud of that too. It's actually a pretty simple idea. Remove old siding (T111), hopefully in one piece. Place old piece on top of new piece. Trace with a pencil. Cut out. Put in place and nail. Duh!!!! It took a while to figure it out, I may be slow in the processing field, but at least i get it done.
posted by AmyLee at 1:03 PM
2 Comments:
Wow, Aim, that is too cool. I've been dying to know more about HP Pavilion Notebooks.
And when in blazes did you get a "pump house?" And dummy me--all this time I've been calling it your "well house."
You and me, well it's a wonder we survived.
P.S. Get one of those cool silver pencils to trace the old piece. You know, for old times sake.
Afterward, for fun, we could install a master cylinder in your car and then bleed the brake lines.
Then we could catch tree frogs and crawdeads, and go dewberry picking.
Wouldn't that be a blast?
response to Angie....are we gonna drown the tree frogs in an ice chest without a lid on it?
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