OMG what a weekend. Lets see. Heres all the things I/we (me and Mom or me and Wayne) did and how long it took:
- Cleaned porch room, Me/Mom 3 hours total - now for anyone who hasnt been to my house this is a HUGE ass room with a cement floor, raw wood beam walls/ceiling and huge huge windows. Its where the dogs eat when they eat outside and its a dirt and dust magnet full of spiders and God knows what else. We clean it like twice a year and thats it because honestly u clean it one day and the next its so dusty again u cant see out the windows. The room is spotless...for now.
- Trimmed allllll the briers, poison ivy, tall shit weeds around the yard, Me/Mom 2 1/2 hours total - Keep in mine here I have a very big yard that sits ont he water. The dampness from the pond makes things grow like...well...weeds. Now normally trimming weeds wouldnt take so long but our weed whacker is broken so we had to use these little trimmer things. My Mom wouldnt go neat the poison ivy so I got stuck with that and one chunk of crap I pulled up had a nest of red ants under it. Naturally I didnt realize it until my legs were being bitten and my hands were covered with the damn things. That wasnt fun hey.
- Convinced Josh and Angelina to go through all their toys and get rid of some, Me/Wayne damn near 4 hours - Ok so stay with me here. We decided to take and go through all the kids toys and take some to salvation army. We being me and Wayne. The kids agreed at first. All in all we basically have just as many toys as we started out with so I plan to go through them again next weekend and get rid of more but for now they didnt do too bad. They got rid of about 5 bags total.
- Painted the gate, Me/Mom 1 hour - Ok seriously this should take like 20 mins max but the gate is a couple years old and has NEVER been painted. Its rough cut wood and seriously it was a bitch to paint. One of us used a big brush and the other used a teenie tiny brush to get all the ridges and hard to reach areas which was insane. That gate will never be painted again as long as I live.
- Re-arranged Moms room, Me/Mom 1 1/2 hours - This is nothing new. Even when Mom lived with me she was moving shit around in her room constantly. Since shes moved next door nothing has changed.
- Re-arranged Josh and Angelinas Rooms and moved the big TV to our room, Me/Wayne 1 1/2 hours - Really this was nothing just time consuming. When we got our big flat screen TV we had to put the big TV we already had in Joshs room in a corner. Well his TV ended up in the camper on our last trip and is still there so we decided to give him our medium sized TV and to put the big TV in our room. That required moving a dresser that is really Robyns into Angelinas room (Robyn and Angelina will share a room eventually) and moving some of our dressers to make this huge ass TV fit. It wasnt easy but its done. We also had to move the dollhouse which for those who havent seen it is giant and not quite finished out of Angelina room and into the upstairs hall (very harge hall) so I can start working on it again in the fall.
- Cleaned sand area, Me/Kids 1/2 hour - Basically I took a huge old tupperware and drilled some holes in the bottom for water to drain and turned that into storage for all the kids sand toys. Threw away some old chewed toys.
Thats the basic list. We did other little things like painting the deck railings (Vin), painting the upstairs hall/trim (Wayne), washing windows (Me), making curtains for Moms room (Pat/Mom), Garden work (Everyone) and so on. Basically no one sat down on Sunday other than to eat, pee and damn near have a heat stroke and Saturday once we started we didnt stop till dark. Now today and tomorrow my goal is the inside of the house which Im off to get started on right now! *sigh*
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