While the homemade dogfood cooks in my Instant Pot, and the pot pies cook in the oven (because I’m TIRED from cleaning the house and didn’t feel like cooking and messing up my sparkly kitchen), I’m peering out at our newly stained deck. It needed it badly, and after a couple of back-breaking steps with stripping it and applying a deck cleaner, John finally got ‘r done! (Yes, on his hands and knees with a BRUSH. It was the only way to adequately get between the edges of the boards).
And voila!
Did I mention that it was back-breaking? Poor guy hasn’t quite recovered from it all yet. Those flower pots are heavy, and they had to be moved around multiple times. My heart swells with how good it looks. I just hope it lasts for a long while.
AND. . . I have news!!!
We are scheduled two weeks from now to finally finally FINALLY have our driveway poured! Our fingers are crossed because it will depend on weather, and John needs to do some excavation first to re-grade the slope. It’ll probably be a 2-3 day effort, of which we will have to park our vehicles up above so we can get out if need be. (I do have an eye doc appt. that week). But I am cautiously THRILLED!!!!
I’m also excited to see my BFF Helen tomorrow; she’s driving up from Oregon to spend the night and hopefully we’ll have some beach time. It felt like October today! (Which is a relief from all the heat we’ve had). It was chilly and blustery, but no rain, and we sure do need that. (Just not two weeks from now).
And then: Here we go! Quinn takes his first steps! (video is 45 seconds long)