Busy, busy, busy!

Wow. What a busy couple of days it has been. I apologize about not posting yesterday. This will encompas the past 2 days. And a little before that. Let's take a trip back a couple of days. We're going back to Saturday night. We have this pile of yard trash that needed to be "disposed" of. So, we had a fire. Sounds pretty easy right? Not if what you're trying to burn is a) full of dirt and b) full of moisture. The picture is when we started to burn our Christmas trees. I know, its April and we still haven't disposed of them. But that is no longer the case. I will say that Christmas trees that have been baking in the sun for 4 months burn really fast. We put a big dent in the pile, but it was taking to long. Whats left is going to be tossed into the woods out back.

Moving on to Tuesday. Not a lot done outside, but there was plenty to do inside. We're hosting a party this Sunday (after church of course) and we're working on getting the house ready for guests. Part of that is going to be painting the hallway (well, I'm not sure we needed to do this for the party, but it is something we've been meaning to do). But in order to do that, we wanted to remove the wall paper first. The picture is the wallpaper. Imagine that covering an entire hallway. **shudders**  I found a rental company in town and was able to rent a wallpaper steamer for a day. So, when Cait went to her bible study, I put Savannah to bed and got to work.  After about 3 1/2 hours, I had only removed 4 panels. I must say that removing wallpaper is not all that fun. That was the big project of Tuesday.

On to Wednesday. I managed to get the kitchen tidied up before heading off to work. When I got home for lunch, Cait had managed to remove one panel with much pain on her part. The problem with the wallpaper steamer is that all of the components get really hot. Which can result in some pain. We decided to just paint over the rest of the wallpaper. We went to Lowes that evening and picked out our paint and took a look at the garden section. We finally found something to plant in the empty spot in our garden. A magnolia bush. I'll provide the details in another post. We got it into the ground and covered and put our last bag of mulch over the large plot of dirt...only to discover that we needed more mulch. Once again...off to Lowes. You know you've been there to many times when the employees ask what you're back for. But we got some more mulch and got it spread out. It looks really good. I'm going home for lunch now. I'll post the info about the magnolia after I get back.

- Brent