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Too Cute...

Found this little gem while "busy" at work....

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Our Little Corner of the World

4 years ago, Nick and I bought and moved into our first home. Now with Sunny and Jerimiah buying their first house, it has brought up a lot of fond and painful memories. Painful by means of the amount of work and headaches, and fond because it was a very liberating and educational experience. I was not working at the time we moved in and with Nick gone 10 hours a day at work meant that my days were filled with packing and unpacking and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. It was exhausting, and at the time I had my little VW convertible. I moved 90% of the house with that little car. I had rocking chairs and lamps hanging out of the roof and plants and dishes packed into the back seat.

But I was in love....and still am, with my house. It is perfect for us. I knew from the moment we walked in that we would live there. It was a feeling that it just fit. I had visions of the backyard being filled with people and barbeque's, sprinklers and tiki torches, azalea's and lawn chairs...

Never would I have known the amount of work that lay ahead of me. I was concentrating on the inside of the house for the first few months but by the time we were done unloading and settling in, it was time for YARDWORK. Oh the dreaded word. I love potting and gardening but those words have nothing to do with anything when you are landscaping a blank canvas. Never mind the fact that my yard is relatively huge for a tract home. And the backyard was just a nice big pile of dirt and when it rained....MUD. Images of me standing on top of a shovel while digging sprinkler trenches because we have clay soil and nothing penetrates it. The Scholar Tree falling on Nick when he was planting that, the broken wheelbarrow, that still has a flat tire till this day. The metric tons of bark and potting soil....but regardless, we were in love with our house. And still are.

Nowadays, the walls are painted and the lawn is green and though we still have more to do, it is still our little corner of the world, and soon enough Sunny will experience that same feeling. Above is the BEFORE picture of our front yard when everything was small and young, and below is the AFTER of our backyard after all our labor.




Still to come: An awning for the main part of the patio, and possibly a vegetable garden, more work to the side yard and a clothes line because I hate using the dryer in the summer.