Everything beautiful in its time
Usually yard work is the bane of my existence, but, boy, did we get a lot done today! Besides moving 15 wheel barrows full of black dirt off my driveway, I got the landscaping updated and reseeded. We still seem to get some leaking in J’s room whenever we have a hard driving rain - so wisdom and prayers would be appreciated on that one. Nonetheless, it sure will look nice when the crime scene tape comes down, don’t you think? My neighbors will be so proud of me when they see that pile of dirt gone!
After Josiah mowed the lawn, we tackled this nightmare:
Before:
It looked much worse in real life.
After:
TA DAA!
Moving that compost bin was interesting. It aint dirt yet, that’s fer sure…
Oh yeah, as long as I was out there with the camera, here’s a picture of the tree house that we had been praying for for a few years and then one day, my neighbor pops over and says friends from church are looking for a new home for their old wooden fort and would we like it? It’s kind of like the good alter-ego version of The Little Red Hen: friends of my neighbors gave to us, Dave and Connie Beckman hauled it for us, and Luke Bryant put it together for us:
Now we all can have sleep overs in it! Incidentally, God provided a piano for Zoe in much the same way last summer!
Zoe and Anna cleaned around that, as well as picked up fifty thousand twigs from the brush pile with me.
Finding satisfaction in my toil - this is a gift of God indeed. I may start to like yard work, yet!
August 20th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
Hi Patsy, thanks for your helpful comments on my blog. I’ll definitely keep everyone posted on how things are going with school. Things were better today–I did a lot of planning (and a good night’s sleep helped, too!).
August 21st, 2005 at 1:25 am
YAY! Looks great out there! Wanna come over to our house??? :O)