I hope everyone had a great weekend! I worked a non cheer event on Sunday in Sacramento and Luke worked the first cheer event of the year on Sunday. He was up at 3 am and home at midnight! LONG DAY! I guess the busy season has officially begun!
Monday was actually one of our days off so today, Tuesday, feels more like Monday to us. Yesterday we ran a bunch of errands. The bank, Costco (still so weird that you can buy hard alcohol in regular stores in CA), Lowe's, and a nursery. Not the baby kind, the plant kind. Here is a sneak peak of what we are working on out in the yard. More detailed post to come later!
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| Plants!! Our Nursery stop was very successful. |
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| The left side of the house...the door is to the right of the window above. Please don't judge 1. the terrible picture quality 2. the dead trees (they will be removed) 3. anything else that isn't aesthetically pleasing about this picture. |
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| The right side of the door/house. More plants to be removed. And we are going to build some shutters. Again, don't judge. |
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| The only picture I have taken of where we are going to lay some grass for Sammie and a possibly place where Luke wants to add a garden. This is a picture taken through the blinds of our bedroom door. It is the left side of our house and you can kind of see that the yard starts to slope down on the right by that weird pole. It is like at least a 30 foot steep slope to a creek/river. Side note: that black cat is so scary! I walked over to the door the other day and it was just... sitting there. staring. a. black. cat. AH! |
Well we will be out working in the yard today. It will take awhile. There is so much property and dead stuff that we could make it our full time job and spend THOUSANDS of dollars to fix up...but since we don't own the place, we will only do a fraction of stuff to just make it look nicer for the time being. Seriously though this property must have been amazing in its prime. There are so many areas around the yard that probably were stunning back in the day. Maybe I will take some property pictures this week and upload them so you can see what all the property had/has to possibly offer in the future.
And of course, I will take better pictures of the planting process and do an update later in the week!
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ReplyDeleteLuke and I were walking around the property last week and going down that path behind the house and I was like man I bet this place looked so amazing when it had people living here and watering all the plants. The play area, the horse shoes, the pool area and the stage. A kids dream for sure! I wish we could put all the money and time into it because I know it would/could be so beautiful again! I will definitely keep posting pictures. I will do some inside ones too eventually. As for the black cat...no idea..Sammie only ever chases them away haha.
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