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Phase I of Backyard Oasis is Complete
I finished excavating the land that will soon hold my stone patio. I’ll be heading to Lowe’s within the next week to collect the necessary pavers and stuff. I’m so proud and relieved. It was some authentic hard labor that took me through a wide range of emotions. There were good times, like when I found a wheelbarrow for 20 bucks, and when my daughter told me how happy she was making mud brownies. Then there were the bad times when my hand was so sore from gripping that shovel it hurt to use my mouse, hold my cell phone or use them at all really. I had to put…
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Operation Backyard Oasis is a go
When we were house hunting, I insisted we buy a house with a yard, preferably a deck. What I got was a huge yard with a privacy fence around it, no extras. I like to entertain and I think it’s just cool to eat, sit, drink and BE outside. However, when there is nothing but grass outside, the BEING becomes less appealing. As a result, we’ve been living in a house with a massive yard for 4 years now and I’m almost ashamed to say, we just don’t make any use of it. Our yard gets the most attention from our lawn guy/landscaper/handiman who cuts it every other week or…
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Facing it
I’ve gone and done it. I joined Facebook. Around the time my daughter was born in 2005, I became mildly aware of these internet networking sites: MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc, but I was too tired or too busy to care. I figured there wouldn’t be anyone out there looking for me and I’m not looking for anybody in particular, so I just let the phenom pass me by. My only exposure came from my teenage sisters or some random and atrocious media coverage, like the mom who drove her daughter’s enemy to suicide by posting a bogus and malicious MySpace in the victim’s name or the shoot out that resulted…
