Small Improvements make me Happy

I can now hang my stems upside  down. A $29 investment, 10 minutes installation time, and et voila. (I love The Container Store.)

On another note, Honey Boo Boo admitted "when I practice, it pays off." If you haven't seen Honey Boo Boo, she's an American girl competing in pageants, who's speech requires subtitles...for her and for the whole family (think  "Toddlers and Tiaras" meets  "moonshiners").

Roof

Although my home inspector said the roof had a few years left, the possibility of a wet winter scared me. So...I love this roof, and also the contractor that I used.

I realize that's a funny picture. The yellow/grey square is the top half of the kitchen window. I put a curtain there.

But you can see the grey and textured roof, and the fascia that I painted grey. I'm painting all the wood around the house grey. Except the front door, that's going to be yellow to match the yellow screen door.

Backyard Update

When we were in Ireland, I woke up one morning with the strongest feeling that my relatives had finished the backyard demo while I was gone. The feeling was so strong, that when we turned from Waring to Galewood at 11:3opm on the night of return, I would have sworn the shed was missing.

I was wrong.

But this weekend, I arranged to get another construction dumpster on site, and Tim and Matt spent hours working, taking the patio wall and the shed down.

Tomorrow, Sunday, they'll return with jackhammers to finish the job.

It's going to be fun landscaping that back yard. Can't wait.