Weekend Projects

This weekend, we were a House o' Projects. It's kind of sick, but Andrew & I both really enjoy doing projects around the house. It feels so darn good when a project is done; it totally makes me enjoy that little part of the house or yard just a little bit more!

Andrew replaced the weather-stripping on the door between the house and the garage. The old weather-stripping had entirely ripped off except for about 3 inches, so you stepped on it everytime you used the door, plus it didn't do a whole lot towards insulating the house from the garage. The new weather-stripping is kind of thick, and it doesn't adjust up any higher, so you kind of have to put some umph in the door, but I tell you, there's no unauthorized air exchange going on under that sucker now!

On Friday, I saw a spot on the news about a product, Guard-n-Edge, that goes on top of the metal edging that's all over our yard. I refer to it as the "guillotine" edging because I know of so many people and pets that have injured themselves on that stuff. I've wanted to do something about the edging since moving in, and voila, here was a great solution! So we bought ourselves some Guard-n-Edge and we spent several hours Saturday installing it. I feel much better about the kids and dog running around the yard with the metal edges covered. Ooooh, edging....And the other project was this mound in the backyard. It was previously covered entirely with wood-chips, and as is wont to happen on a hill, the wood-chips just kept sliding down the hill into the grass and our neighbor's yard. So I raked the wood-chips up the hill and hauled rocks from other parts of the yard to cover the slopey parts, creating a little mulch-island around the trees and plants. And whoever landscaped the yard totally upsold the homeowners on rocks, they're about 8 inches thick in some places, so I easily found enough rocks in the other beds around the yard to do the project withouth leaving bare spots. The boys had a lot of fun helping with this project - not a lot of things they like better than hauling rocks in their dump-trucks and little John Deere wheelbarrow.