Working on That List

We started to tackle the list on Saturday. Erik got a pallate of grass and went out to the house to start grading the yard on the right side of the house (by the neighbors). I came out to help and he made a 3x1 measuring device to determine where the slope was greater and we needed to regrade. This meant pulling up already planted grass, moving dirt, and putting it back down again. When he told me this, I told him, "You realize I'm going to cry." He suggested that I go home in order to avoid that. I stayed. So we kept moving that thing around and the bigger the area got, the more upset I got, and I fulfilled my prophecy. I got ahold of myself and we started pulling up grass. Not 5 mins later, I decided that I did, in fact, need to go home and did just that.

Regrading just about done:

See, I was ready to plant this grass, not pull up grass that was already planted and then replant it.

Thankfully, the Manns came out to replace me and they did a great job regrading the yard. Erik finished grading the side yard for the most part, too. They also did an amazing job cleaning inside and Evelyn planted the rest of the pansies with my broken spade (which I also had to use to plant pansies - apparently no one is willing to make the drive to Lowes to remedy that problem : )). I'm pretty sure it was sacrificed in the Great Mann-hole Fiasco as the two giant holes were trying to be connected. Anyhoo, it was a huge help and especialy nice since we had some friends coming out to see the house that night.



As it was Valentine's Day, Erik and I had a picnic of Vietnamese noodles by the fire in our house later that night : )

Today, Mom, Dad, and Erik laid the grass on the side yard and Dad started prepping for shelves in the pantry and linen closet. Erik fixed the cut-off thing and Mom and I did a number on the kitchen. I also painted the pantry so we can put the shelves in and finished cutting in on the linen closet.
Just a little bit left. I'm picking up one *hopefully* last pallate of grass after school tomorrow.

That bottle on the counter is the sealer I need to use on the counters after I get all the residual glue and what-not off of them.

I also cleaned up the counters in the bath and found the other mirror on the wall!