This and that, again.............

 

My little house has had a major update.  I finally got my brown house painted and the 1970's painted black wood has been taken down.  I replaced that area with this beautiful stonework.   My old neighbor Tony is a contractor and has helped me with plumbing issues and hired people to paint.  He did the stomework himself.  The new pathway is where I had a six foot hole for over six weeks for my major plumbing repair.  I replanted and landscaped several weeks ago and things are finally growing back. I even got new lights and numbers for the house.  The old lights were wooden 70's originals and seriously looked like black bat houses.

Last week I finally got new sod in my backyard to replace all the weeds and big patches of dirt.  I freshened up the pathways that I made two years ago and helped to disperse a mountain of new mulch on Friday.  This weekend I hauled 50 bags of marble rocks for the borders and now it is finished.  A project I have been working on getting done since January has finally been completed. I was not expecting a huge plumbing repair in there stalling it all but I guess that is home ownership. 

On my fifth trip of the weekend yesterday to Lowe's for rocks I bought these fellas.  I am not a big statue person but I had a problem area right in front of my tree in front of my house.  Nothing would grow there because it was so dense with roots.   I thought these two would make a nice visually pleasing distraction from the big bare spot that was there.

Last weekend Little Buddy and I went to a car museum very close to our home.  It is the largest privately owned museum for older antique cars.  The family is French so many of these cars were from France and Germany. They had seventeen one of a kinds including prototypes that were never manufactured.  

 

 

And because Little Buddy is cute and adorable when he wants to be, the kind man walking around answering questions asked if he would like to sit in the Delorean.  Well of course he did.  Sorry the picture is so blurry.  When we came home I put on the movie Back to the Future and about 15 minutes in realized there was a lot of swearing, like way too much for a boy who has difficulty with impulse control, so off it went.  He was incensed there was so much swearing, which is funny because he swears when he is having a behavioral episode.  I explained it was the 80's, things were wild and crazy back then. 

The fur boys wanted to say hello.

Hope you are all doing well and enjoying your summer.  Thank you for continuing to visit this space of mine.  You are all the best.