Getting Some Things Done

After KR got back from Utah, we were determined to get some things done on our TO DO lists. Do you have those? Those lists that no matter how many things you get done, they seem to grow longer. The key is to focus and take things off faster than you add them. We are going to do that this summer. We FINALLY found some deck furniture we liked and you can see the cute model showing the end result. Now we can enjoy those wonderful Spring and Fall evenings outside. We did wonder why the sales clerk laughed under his breath though when he told us there was some assembly required - that was a lot of small screws and mighty small allen wrenches for these stubby fingers

I finished the redo of the watering system in the garden box. It now has a better hard-wired timer in the garage (thanks Monte for the help) and permanent tubing that moves to smaller hoses to water each plant. And the pressure is great. No more worrying about the vegetables drying out. I also spent a lot of time on my hands and knees checking and fixing all of the irrigation hoses in the front two beds and cutting back the trees. They were getting very shaggy. Notice the two new pots for annuals. Finally, I spent two days on the rock fall area under the back kitchen window installing permanent sprinklers (there was no water there before for plants) and planting 15 new perennials to add some color to that area. It looks so much better.

Last but not least, the safe I have always wanted, and found at the home show, was delivered this week. We had to figure out where to put it, finally settling on the downstairs office. Now if we only had some valuables to put in it!