1ton of rock

Remember my home now has a pond - complete with babbling brook or creek or crick or mini river

SOOOO... A few weeks later - now I need to re-route that crick and lay pretty paths. 1 ton of lovely rock dumped on my drive and its time to start the labor of hauling it around my home.. in small trips..in a wheel barrow.. up that mountain side. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?!?!?

Friend text - want help?? YES PLEASE!! I cannot do this at the pace I know they can and I definitely need help with this carting business!!!

Voice 1 who always says, "Be polite your mother raised you to be a nice person!"  Shake my head - It is very hard to do this because I am the fool who signed up for this... I cuss a bunch, but friend is very kind and keeps saying things about how we got this. 

Voice 2 always reminding me, "Your mother raised to say nothing at all if you have nothing nice to say." I ignore this voice in this entire situation, for I am so hot, do sore already, and now there is  notable continued cussing.

Voice 3 is saying (in her normal annoyed voice of adult reason) Why did I do this???? Can’t you see this is going to stress you to the max??? I DON'T KNOW!!!! Mentally flipping her off by the other voices.

Voice 4 pipes in, having perpetual PMS, is snapping out her usual slew of profanity… @#$%^&* AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you try to do things on your own. ISSUES every turn of the way!!!! !@#$%^& ONCE AGAIN, she isn’t very wrong, and to make it worse I know others are merry thinking the same thing. 

Voice 5 comments with today’s uplifting quote.  "creativity takes courage"

Voice 6, with all her jolly personality, with all her determination to take over the world one step at a time, tossing glitter straight into my eyes and says the goal & core reason for this is Oakley and I will love it when it's done...Tosses another handful of glitter in my face and giggles away!!

Tara the dusty & bruised unicorn has this!! Thanks voice 6 & texting friend

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WHAT is that smell

SERIOUS smell issue... What is THAT!!!

hmmmmph - make salmon for dinner. toss packaging in the trash can - in the kitchen - leave it in there - on a 90 degree day - locked up inside, with no airflow, no air conditioning.. It will make your home smell divine. SAID NO ONE EVER!! 

Board meeting not needed, my memory of last nights dinner comes back to me like a flash.

SIGH – take out liner. toss outdoors while retching. fill trashcan with bleach and water & place outdoors. take offending trash bag to dumping disposal FAR from home.

Shake head.

NOTE to self: NEVER leave fish packaging in the kitchen overnight😊

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Build a pond...It will be fun

Reminder my home is in the woods - complete with babbling brook or creek or crick.. Pick your favored word for mini river :)

SOOOO... A few visitor suggest I add a looking pond. Think it over, another visitor suggests a looking pond.. Think it over some more. Ok, I am doing this. A pond shall be built, no deadline or start date made.

Friend text - want help?? YES PLEASE!! I mean hey, you wanna help, I am gonna take full advantage of this!!

Merrily set forth to moving rock, setting up the boundaries, diggggggggging.

Voice 1 who always says, "Be polite your mother raised you to be a nice person!"  Shake my head - It is very hard to do this because I am the fool who signed up for this... I cuss a bunch, but friend is so busy they cannot hear me. 

Voice 2 always reminding me, "Your mother raised to say nothing at all if you have nothing nice to say." I ignore this voice in this entire situation, for I am cold, wet & sore from falling down the ravine a few times, notable continued cussing.

Voice 3 is saying (in her normal annoyed voice of adult reason) Why did I do this???? Can’t you see this is going to stress you to the max??? I DON'T KNOW!!!! 

Voice 4 pipes in, having perpetual PMS, is snapping out her usual slew of profanity… @#$%^&* AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you try to do things on your own. ISSUES every turn of the way!!!! !@#$%^& She isn’t very wrong, and to make it worse I know others are merry thinking the same thing. 

Voice 5 comments with today’s uplifting quote.  "adopt the pace of Nature, Her secret is patience"

Voice 6, with all her jolly personality, with all her determination to take over the world one step at a time, tossing glitter along the way smiles and reminds me that the core reason for this is Oakley and I will love it when it's done...Toss the Glitter and embrace it!!

Tara the muddy & bruised unicorn has this!! Just, well my entire body is feeling the HURT!!

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Willy Nilly Bricks

Ahhhh... Life in the woods is so serine. Relax, lean back, breath... And then you start to look at things... Like really look at them. My brick path is not straight. No not at all!! It is crooked and they lay the bricks all Willy Nilly!! The bricks are going in different directions. MANY different directions. 

Now, with that said, it is going to be impossible to make the path straight, so I shall rip it out and start over. 

Step one - remove and stack all bricks as I deconstruct the 40 foot long path.

Step two - carve out of the ground a new path for the bricks.

Step three - decide you need to remove the horridly cracked pavement steps. How does one do this?? OHHHH, get a sledgehammer and WACK it. Wait a week to finally borrow fathers, because frankly - I am sore from all that other manual labor. (This does not work - I am not strong enough) 

Step four -friend text need help?? YES PLEASE!! Friend is much stronger and still struggles, however breaks it down and we are "cookin with gas" finish outlining the brick path.

Steps five through ten - lay the rock and mortar mix so the brick doesn't settle nor slide about and eventually look just like before, tamp all the ground so the bricks stay where they are placed, lay the brick in a fashionable order - NOT Willy Nilly. Spread sand in the spacing so there is minimal movement of said bricks. Back-fill the trench dug to place brick path into. Rake ground around area to make smooth and pretty.

Ahhhh... Life in the woods is so serine. Relax, lean back, breath... And then you start to look at things... Like really look at them. My brick path is beautiful and straight... The soil is not. No not at all.. Now I need a rototiller. I need to grind up this earth and replant grass. 

Step one - locate a tiller. This was not as hard as I imagined. I have a few at my disposal. One is delivered within the next week for my use.

Step two - friend text need help?? YES PLEASE!! Friend is much stronger and still struggles, however does a fantastic job after a few passes and we are once again "cookin with gas"

Step three through five - buy proper type of grass seed ( FYI - one heck of a board meeting took place with all my personalities who struggled with the CSR at the home improvement store, as I am finding myself standing in  simple amazement and in total awe of the thousands of styles of grass one can purchase) Rake & spread seed mixture. Water and wait...

Ahhhh... Life in the woods is so serine. Relax, lean back, breath... And then you start to look at things... Like really look at them. Ladies and Gents, I have baby grass :) the Path is straight and even and no wiggly bricks, the ground is smooth and blended and now plush and green. 

Shoosh - Home owner life - I LOVE IT

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