Back to work

This weekend was a whirlwind of house projects and picnics and fun.

It was also the beginning of Emily's summer break from preschool. I honestly cannot believe that she is done. Already.

We went to a birthday party for Mike's cousin on Friday night and didn't get the girls back home until 10:30. They were tired. They actually fell asleep in the car on the way home. Which almost NEVER happens. They played hard and then crashed. It was great.

Saturday, Mike spent nearly the whole day outside, after he installed a new deadbolt on the garage door to the house. He cleaned out the barn, swept up the grass clippings from our back yard and spread them on the garden. He moved his dad's boat out of our barn. And did about 100 other things, that I can't remember any more. I spent the morning installing a new light switch and 3 new outlets in our bedroom. Our house is 30 years old and some of the outlets are starting to loose their gripping power on the plugs. It's annoying and so I am replacing them as I discover them. Replacing them is easy and it makes me feel all handy.

Sunday we did the church thing and then went to Mike's parent's house in the afternoon for a picnic. We all ate a ton and then watched in awe as the girls ran around and around and around and around the yard. We got them home and put them to bed about 9:30. They passed out almost immediately and didn't wake up until 9 am. When Mike went in and woke them up. It was amazing.

Yesterday was another busy day. Mike mowed and string-trimmed the yard again and took down a tree that has been bugging him. In the course of taking the tree down, he nearly dumped his tractor in the creek. He explained how this all came to happen, but basically, it involves a hill and well, gravity.

While Mike was trying to take his tractor for a swim, I was installing new screen on our front door and garage doors. This is a project that's been bugging me for a while. The screen door to the garage was all holey and nasty when we bought the house. I nagged Mike for a while and he finally put new screen in. And then, not 3 weeks later, poked a hole in the new screen with a box. And that was how it stayed for nearly 2 years? Maybe 3. Until I got sick of looking like the Clampett's hard luck neighbors and bought new screen. And installed the stuff myself. Like the outlets, it's not hard and it makes me feel all handy. Apparently I like feeling handy since I've been doing more and more of that stuff lately.

After dinner last night, my parents and Mike and I were talking about what we would do if we didn't have to go back to work today. And the consensus was ... we didn't know. Continue working around the house somehow, but we weren't sure how or where. We knocked several things off the Honey Do List on the fridge, leaving only two things on it. They are fixing the passage door into the garage (it has a wonky latch that tends not to shut in the cold months) and fixing the garage door sensors. The sensors are really hosed up and we're not sure how to fix them. Our garage faces west and so the setting sun messes them up, preventing the garage door from closing. On top of that, they get knocked out of alignment frequently and again, the garage door won't close. And sometimes? Sometimes both things happen at once. That's all kinds awesome.