We Made It To 100!!

Happy 100^th post everyone.  This means you could have potentially trudged through one hundred different posts filled with my rants and raves and projects and craziness.  Congratulations, it is quite an accomplishment to have stuck with me that long.   

I got Andrew out the door and on his way to training for two weeks.  About the minute he walked out the door, the dogs and I looked at each other and wondered what we were going to do for the next two weeks.  To keep myself busy, I have been in project mode.  Sunday I spent two hours at Menards trying to decide pots I was going to buy for my previously mentioned potting projects.  I got some pots and am in the process of sealing those this week so I can plant them after I go to the greenhouse this weekend.  Since this weekend is Mother’s Day, I think it is finally safe to plant flowers!   I did pick up some herbs for the herb garden I’m going to plant.  This is my first time planting something edible, so I’m pretty excited about this.  I might get the herb tower done one night this week; I don’t like to let plants hang out in the pots once I buy them so I try to get them planted right away.   For Mother’s Day, I think my mom and I are going to venture to the greenhouse; I’m pretty excited about this! 

On Saturday, I did a little shopping at the Brass Armadillo to see what I could find.  I wasn’t on the hunt for anything specific, I just wanted to see what I could see.  I bought a few items, one being an old watering can I am going to plant flowers in outside.  I was pretty excited about that find.  I also bought a cute birdhouse for outside.  

 

I have my eye on a wicker rocking chair for the front porch (this is not an invitation for those in town to go buy it).  Again, with not knowing if we are staying in this house or moving, I think I’m having a hard time deciding what to do.  I almost stopped there tonight, but didn’t.  I thought maybe I would sleep on it one more night before I actually bought it, and if it wasn’t there when I went back, it wasn’t intended for me.  I think it would be really cute on the front porch though.  I have visions of that along with a foot rest and a small table. 

I also got the wild hair that I was going to build a table for outside since we are kind of missing a dining type table outside.  I also wouldn’t mind having some kind of an ottoman or something to put our feet up on when we are on the benches we have on the deck.  Again, I’m planning these things around us staying at this house.  Are we seeing a pattern here?  We do have one final open house this coming weekend.   I guess you could call it one last push to see if we can get someone to bite on the house.  I’m not convinced it is going to get us anywhere, but that is the side of me that says the house has been on the market for a month and half and we haven’t had an offer.  There is a house on another street in our neighborhood that finally has a sale pending sign on it; I’m pretty sure it has been on the market since October of last year.  It will happen if it is supposed to happen, and if we don’t sell now we will take that as a sign that we are supposed to stay in this house. 

I am scheduled to get some things taken care of with the house in the next couple of weeks.  We had someone come out last week and give us an estimate on painting the trim on the house as well as cleaning the deck and re-staining since our staining job now looks like dung.  We are on the schedule for July, yes I said July, to have someone come out and look at our basement and see about getting the small leak we have fixed.  I guess when you are good at what you do; you have a long waiting list as is the case with the basement people.  Since we don’t have a major leaking issue, it isn’t like this is a crisis.  We have gone a year without doing anything about the leak; I don’t think another couple of months are going to hurt anything.  Now, if the whole basement wall caves in, I might be eating my words.  On the bright side, the walls in the basement have been standing for over 100 years; I don’t think they are coming down any time soon.  We still need to contact people about possibly re-doing the garage and checking out upstairs to see what we can do about a little temperature regulation up there. 

Sadly, for the 100^th post I have no fun photos or projects to share with you.  If I can get my herb tower done tomorrow night like I want to, I will share that with you guys!  Until then, here is a view of spring from our yard!