A long day but a sweet reward
I'm exhausted! We spent the day working HARD. So, it's the good, satisfying, I-accomplished-something kind of exhausted.
We worked on Ruby-proofing the backyard. There are still two areas that need attention but we worked on the most important ones. I cleaned out the dog run, powerwashed everything, and we put a 1/2 yard of gravel in it -- nice and clean . . . see:
She'll only be in there when we are gone for a long enough time that we can't leave her in the house (like if Greg's out of town and I'm at work all day) The dog house is WAY too huge for her but we'll make do for awhile. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to go get a nice bale of pine shavings to fill the bottom of the dog house with to make it cozy for her if she has to be out there when its raining.
Greg fixed one gate that was broken and cut wood for the bottom of our deck (the one over the creek!) because the gap was fine for labs but Ruby could go right under it. I stained the wood and he'll put it up tomorrow morning.
Gosh, when I put it in a list, it doesn't seem like much but it was and it took all day -- well, just shoveling the gravel is a ton of work! (almost literally!).
The kids had sleepovers with friends tonight so Greg and I went out and got Chinese food from our local, awesome Chinese restaurant. It's soooooo good! I order it online and we run down 20 minutes later and it's waiting for us and still hot when we get home. We watched National Treasure tonight (We love Netflix) and after we were done eating, we had drinks and popcorn. I figure after the amazing labor my body did today a martini is only fair!
And now to bed. Tomorrow is a big day and Greg and I are gonna be SORE!
4 comments:
You said it sounds like a little work on your list but I know for sure that was a major undertaking. Anything having to do with gravel is tough! Does Ruby come on Sunday?
Thanks for the hummingbird shot. I've almost forgotten about them. I'll have my feeder ready by mid-March.
Glad you had a nice evening. You deserved a martini :)
It's very cool to see the Rufous hummingbirds there, that means they're on their way up here. Last year they arrived at the end of March. Came right to our slider and looked in, as if to say, where's the food?
Great job getting the place ready for Ruby. It looks like a lot of work, but she's going to appreciate that consideration.
Thanks! The hummer was clearly one HUNGRY bird! I'm surprised he wasn't sitting on the feeder again when I got up this morning although in years past, I've seen them more often at dusk so it must just be a refuel to survive the night kind of deal.
Greg isn't sore but I sure I am -- I did more shoveling though so I'm not surprised! A little bit more work today and then we're off to get our girl!
Hummingbirds. You have hummingbirds.
Humph.
I can't start looking for them until the third week of April.
Take a Percocet and go to bed, dear. You earned it.
Ruby is one lucky dog!
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