say bye bye

Passover Sunday wasn’t it?

Up early as usual and returned the carpet cleaner and picked up some breakfast stuff for the boys.

When I returned I heard the familiar whir of an electric drill and that nails-on-chalkboard sound that wood makes sometimes coming from the side of the house.

Kevin was up, dressed, outside and wielding power tools! (woopie- I love it when he does that)!

inside story: We’ve coined the name “BB (Butterbutt) and The Ausie” for the homes previous owners. The husband, a portly fellow who would have been super cute if he grew a beard and his wife was from Brisbane Australia. (They moved back to Australia after we bought the house. – thus the killer deal of getting all the appliances, etc. with the house.

BB & The Ausie installed the fence when they bought the house in ’98 and like everything else they did – was stub-standard and half-ass.

Here it is 5 years later and the fence is warping and leaning…

Kevin and Chad tackled the job of taking down the fence and I tackled the laundry and made brunch.

The rest of the evening was spent relaxing and talking, (debating), over what to do with the landscaping.

While the fence “did” look like crap – I liked the privacy if afforded.

The lots are tiered, so we’re thinking about doing a retaining wall along the west-side and back of the property… and from there either doing privacy “plantings” or doing another (correctly installed) fence.

Kev of course thinks we can do this ourselves – but I know what his agenda is… he wants to rent a bobcat and drive it around… he’s not fooling anyone.

Sorta like I’m probably not fooling anyone by saying I’m not blogging.