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That’s what I get for thinking!
July 17th, 2006
What I Did This Weekend
Spent most of Saturday sitting on my ass, uploading images to my flckr account and blog, and generally reveling in my newfound geekitude. Took a brief respite from the ‘puter to go see the new Pixar film Cars - more time spent indoors in darkness, but hey, I was already in Gollum mode so I hardly noticed. However, Sunday saw another side of me entirely.
In the morning, Kevin and I went for a 22-mile bike ride along the Cedar River Trail. Gorgeous weather, great scenery, good workout, followed by a hearty brunch of breakfast sausage and french toast. Magnifique!
Then Kevin and I took a stroll through the back yard, and everything changed. It started out as a simple idea (mine) to slightly ensmallen the herb garden and embiggen the patio for a small outdoor grill. This way while one of us (him) makes dinner on the grill, the other (me) can lounge in the hot tub without getting smoke in her eyes. Genius, yes?
Yes, genius - except that because himself is an engineer, if we are going to change one thing, we thus must change a whole shitload of other things, because that is The Most Efficient Way. So my innocent little idea for a two-foot square grill nook turned into putting in not only said patio, but also pipe from the herb garden and around the garage for irrigation to the vegetable garden, as well as extending our hot tub porch ten feet.
Uh. OK. Sooooooooo….
… Grab the garden shoes, What Would Joan Jett Do? T-shirt, and workin’ gloves - time to bust a move on some shit in the backyard. Four hours of the lovely Sunday afternoon were spent on the first stages of the new Grill-Patio-Gone-Apeshit-Project, ripping out pavers, digging out dirt, and taking down a decrepit, rotting gate behind our garage.
(Aside: to this day, I am still puzzled why anyone would build a ten-foot gate between the backside of a garage and a fence, where nobody but possums and racoons ever go. I mean, I know the previous owner of our house had a dog, but it was, like, a 10-inch tall poodle-mix thing that couldn’t jump a cinderblock. Baffling.)
In any case, we hope to have most of the project done before we go to Europe. For a smattering of pictures of the weekend’s accomplishments, check out my photos on Flickr. More to come!
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Knowing how similar our partners are, I’m surprised to learn that you spoke of an idea outloud without understanding the possible consequences.
At least said engineer is not only the drawer-up of plans but also a help in producing those plans.
Kevin needs to get in touch with his inner Lay-Z-Boy more often. After all, it’s his Tightwad side that would deny innocent children a $5 bag of Halloween candy!