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08/05/2008: "This is what home ownership looks like..."

Yes, it’s messy AND dirty! We spent all day Saturday scraping ceilings. So far we have the guest bath, master bedroom, my design studio, and 1/4 of the guest room done. We had planned to finish the upstairs Sunday, but instead decided to weed out the jungle that lived in our front and back yards. David mowed the lawn while I raked all the sticks, debris, and old wood chips from the back lawn. After David mowed, he got the hedge trimmer and bushwacked the trees and fauna. I had the clippers and cut our branches from the trees to let in more light in the back, and weeded out some of the unessential plants. I feel bad because I think we removed a lot of rose bushes, but these things were massive and messy and were not kept up so they had to go. Maybe they will come back next year and will be more manageable. I also clipped our hydrangea bush (that I love) and the poor thing looks bare, but it had to be done. We have a pile of sticks and branches the size of my car ready to be picked up by sanitation this week. We were exhausted! We still are not finished. David still has to trim the tops of the evergreen/cypress trees near the garage (these poor trees were so overgrown that they looked dead after he trimmed… hope they come back). We also need to lay mulch and designate where to put some additional landscaping with flowers and such. The little brick border also needs to go and I want to find some natural twig borders to outline the gardens. It will all come in time.

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The fall is the time to do a lot of spring planting. I want to schedule a visit to come see you in the Fall when I get a little vacation time under my belt!

Beth said on Sunday, August 10th @ 10 :43 AM CST

Got the spare room scrapped last night. Only took me two hours to finish what we started and a whole lot of sweat! One room at a time...

Erin said on Wednesday, August 6th @ 10 :00 AM CST