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Pool Season Prep Continues

April 29, 2008 on 8:20 pm | In Parenting, HoneyDo, Hot Air |

Got a lot of work done after dinner tonight.  Kari has been helping me cap off the last touches before we get ready to paint and stain the backyard configuration I’ve been building during the past month.  This all is really shaping up to be a wonderful project and I’m getting excited about seeing it to completion.  I know there are several more things I want to do to the pergola and remaining fencing before I will be settled.  I also want to build a couple more planters for the back.

The morning glories and other plants we started in the garage are coming along splendidly.  It’s almost time for planting.

Right now I’m on the back porch with my best of the best dogs, Molly.  It’s 9 p.m. and the water pump on the well is running and filling the backyard with a wonderful sound.  The wind is calm tonight so no chimes.  Molly is so good about sitting/laying here at my side and guarding me.  She stays between me and the gate.  Isn’t that a hoot?  I’d hate to be the poor fool who ever might decide to come through our gate unannounced.

I figure I need about six additional boards for the top of the pergola and about 21 more of the slate boards I’ve been using for the picket fencing.  I also still need to fix the doggie door arches, and add a board there, too.

After we get that done, it’s on to getting the wood work creation painted, and then I need to begin some work inside.  I want to do some accent painting and make some other positive improvements inside.

It looks like my dad will be here in a week or so, so I’m trying to get as much done before he gets here, too.  Not that it will largely impress him, but I will know what I’ve done.  He didn’t say much when I told him Kari and I had built this wonderful patio cover I’m sitting under.  So I’m not expecting much of a reaction to the bench work and pergola.  It’s funny, when he was here in October of 2006, he insisted on hiring someone from Home Depot to put up our $99 storm door at the front of the house.  I’ve since put one on the back door, added a patio cover, fencing, etc….

I just wish my Mom’s dad was still around to be able to see all this.  He would be pleased.   And he would take a seat each morning out on the bench work and watch the sun come up in the east and think of something profound to write on the wood.