2 posts tagged “trees”

Lots of stuff has been going on around here lately.

We both have been busy with work, but with the economy, my work load has slowed a little, but not too much. I have some extra flexibility that allows me to work from home on occasion (yes, I do actually work).

I have been making plans for additional "fixin' up the house" items, such as painting and whatnot. I decided on coordinating color for the main color of the kitchen. it did take me 6 months to pick the main color out. I'd rather be sure than be hasty and carefully pick something out, rather than buy it, paint it up, hate it and then have to redo. I'm just lazy like that. My time is too valuable.

We're finally getting a real patio and patio cover!! Hooray for shade. The patio cover build is currently in process. Granted it is just alumawood (We just don't have 25K for a full on stuccoed, wood frame, tiled patio cover). The support footing holes were dug and inspected last week. The concrete for the slab and footings is being started at about 630 tomorrow morning. Then that has to dry and so forth then the cover build is Thursday and Friday.

We got a big palm tree from Eric's parents for the front yard. They had it in a pot, but now it's pushed out of its pot and they don't have room to plant it. Free plants, I'll take it. It would cost about $400 bucks to buy a comarable sized tree at the nursury. We will then have 3 kinds of trees in the front (desert willow, screwbean mesquite, and the palm). Variety is nice.

After the patio is in, I am going to go to the nursury and get more plants to replace the 90% of my plants that died i the last year due to a lack of shade in the scorching hot summer. Even my all of my cacti died. How sad is that? The poor things had always had shade at theh townhouse, then they were just abused in our empty ass sun-baked backyard.

We planted two eucalyptus trees back there in October, and they are doing nicely. Once the patio cover is in, Eric is going to run the irrigation line from the stub at the side of the house so we can start making the backyard a nice place. at least the one end of it. The south side of the yard will have to wait, as that is were the pool/hot tub is gonna go...eventually. That will probably be next year if all goes well. Sooner if some rich relative we don't know about dies and leaves us lots of money (as if).

In my personal life, my lifestyle/body over haul is going well. I am down 20.6 pounds since Mid February. The bridesmaid dress has been purchased. Doesnt look too bad on even now. I'm hoping they will have to take a lot of it in come September when we go in for our alterations.

I stopped into Ace Hardware to pick up a few things for work on Sunday, than again on Wednesday for the stuff that I forgot. They had Christmas displays up. Pre-lit trees, ornaments, lawn "decorations". I didn't even see any Thanksgiving or fall decorations.

Stopped into CostCo Sunday to buy the previously mentioned shiny new television. Christmas decorations.

At least when I went to Target to buy toilet paper and whatnot, I did not see any Christmas crap decorations out on display.

A friend of mine noted that Wal*Mart had Christmas decorations on display by the end of August.

No offense to anyone, but What the fuck!?!? Halloween is just yesterday, The turkey for Thanksgiving hasn't been bought yet, but I am being bombarded with Christmas already.

[sigh]

And as I speak, the pumpkin "patch" lots are being converted to tree lots. It's still 75 freakin' degrees people. Yeah, lets buy a dead tree and put it in out house a month and a half before the actual holiday, let it get nice and dry and then string it with electric lights. And then wonder why your house burnt down two days before Christmas.

I really hate the fact that the Christmas stuff get put out earlier and earlier every year. Why does Christmas have to butt into the other holidays!?! Next thing you know we will have permanent Christmas sections in stores.