Catching up- Thursday through Saturday
This weekend was a blur!
I'll have more pictures to post tomorrow, but for now you'll just have to make do with the commentary.
The cavalRY arrived Thursday evening! Ry got in just in time to meet the boys and I for dinner at Subway. What a sweetheart! OMG... He's just as nice, honest, humble, thoughtful, and compassionate in person as he is in comments. BPPV is kicking my ass when it comes to working on my new house, so when Ry offered to come down to help, I took him up on it. I've been trying to be so independent, but there are some things I just can't do right now without feeling like I'm going to pass out or without the room spinning around me. Looking up is a HUGE problem, so painting is difficult. Try standing two feet in front of a wall and painting it while looking straight ahead or down slightly, but never up. It's impossible. Ry to the rescue!
He took my white kitchen and turned it into a red kitchen in one weekend. The color is a little more intense than I thought it would be, but I really, really like it. I'v always wanted a red kitchen, and now I have one! While he painted, I worked in the yard putting mulch down and mowing. It's a BIG yard. About 1/2 acre. I also started rebuilding the flowerbed retaining walls (they're on a slope and falling down- they just weren't put in correctly when they were first built). Only one snake. Heh.
*me* AAAAIIIIIIIIIHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!! SNAKE! (jumps back 3 feet, VERY quickly)
*Mom* (jumps 2 feet in air and does pee-pee dance about 20 feet away from me) AAAAIIIIIIIHHHHHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! WHERE! OH MY GOD! YOU'RE NOT GOING BACK OVER THERE ARE YOU? HERE- TAKE THIS RAKE! OH MY GOD! WHERE IS IT? WHERE DID IT GO? WHAT KIND WAS IT?
*Kevin* COOL! A snake! Where is it? What kind? How big was it, Mommy?
*me* I DON'T KNOW! IT'S GONE... OH MAN... It's just a garter snake, but it SCARED ME! It's about 14 inches long, and as big around as my finger. YUCK!!! I HATE SNAKES!
*Kevin* THOMAS! MOMMY FOUND A SNAKE! THEN SHE LOST IT! LET'S FIND IT FOR HER!
*me* NO! NO! That's ok... I really don't want it found again, honey. (cautiously looks around for killer garter snake lurking in the grass, ready to leap out and attack me at a moment's notice)
So... I went back to rebuilding the wall, without the help of the snake. OI! I knew it wouldn't hurt me or anything, but it surprised me in a not-very-good way. Of course, looking back on it I'm pretty sure it was a pit viper or something. 8 feet long, flared neck, and spitting venom. I swear. Honest. And just wait until I tell you about the fish I caught yesterday... whoooo boy!
I'll have more pictures to post tomorrow, but for now you'll just have to make do with the commentary.
The cavalRY arrived Thursday evening! Ry got in just in time to meet the boys and I for dinner at Subway. What a sweetheart! OMG... He's just as nice, honest, humble, thoughtful, and compassionate in person as he is in comments. BPPV is kicking my ass when it comes to working on my new house, so when Ry offered to come down to help, I took him up on it. I've been trying to be so independent, but there are some things I just can't do right now without feeling like I'm going to pass out or without the room spinning around me. Looking up is a HUGE problem, so painting is difficult. Try standing two feet in front of a wall and painting it while looking straight ahead or down slightly, but never up. It's impossible. Ry to the rescue!
He took my white kitchen and turned it into a red kitchen in one weekend. The color is a little more intense than I thought it would be, but I really, really like it. I'v always wanted a red kitchen, and now I have one! While he painted, I worked in the yard putting mulch down and mowing. It's a BIG yard. About 1/2 acre. I also started rebuilding the flowerbed retaining walls (they're on a slope and falling down- they just weren't put in correctly when they were first built). Only one snake. Heh.
*me* AAAAIIIIIIIIIHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!! SNAKE! (jumps back 3 feet, VERY quickly)
*Mom* (jumps 2 feet in air and does pee-pee dance about 20 feet away from me) AAAAIIIIIIIHHHHHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! WHERE! OH MY GOD! YOU'RE NOT GOING BACK OVER THERE ARE YOU? HERE- TAKE THIS RAKE! OH MY GOD! WHERE IS IT? WHERE DID IT GO? WHAT KIND WAS IT?
*Kevin* COOL! A snake! Where is it? What kind? How big was it, Mommy?
*me* I DON'T KNOW! IT'S GONE... OH MAN... It's just a garter snake, but it SCARED ME! It's about 14 inches long, and as big around as my finger. YUCK!!! I HATE SNAKES!
*Kevin* THOMAS! MOMMY FOUND A SNAKE! THEN SHE LOST IT! LET'S FIND IT FOR HER!
*me* NO! NO! That's ok... I really don't want it found again, honey. (cautiously looks around for killer garter snake lurking in the grass, ready to leap out and attack me at a moment's notice)
So... I went back to rebuilding the wall, without the help of the snake. OI! I knew it wouldn't hurt me or anything, but it surprised me in a not-very-good way. Of course, looking back on it I'm pretty sure it was a pit viper or something. 8 feet long, flared neck, and spitting venom. I swear. Honest. And just wait until I tell you about the fish I caught yesterday... whoooo boy!
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