Hello Friends & Family--
Let me introduce myself, they call me Amber. You know the narrator of this blog?! It's been awhile. I know, I know I think I say that every couple of months :) Life just gets busy and blogging comes last on my priority list. I have lots of saved drafts, just need to finish adding pictures! That seems to be my biggest hiccup.
So I thought I'd give a little house update. Since we've been here around 8 months lots of changes have been made, yet still there is so much to do. We've been on the hunt for new furniture, but we won't settle for less than what we have envisioned so it's taking a lot longer then we'd like. One day it will all be completed--no rush though.
The office is about the only room that is mostly completed and yet I still can't find the time to come in here to blog. Hmm. Maybe it's because of the lack of proper seating? We can't find an office chair that fits our scheme, so we are using a lovely (and oh so comfortable) folding chair. Ha! One of these days I'll make note to go room by room and take pictures--with or without my folding chair :) . Perhaps a little "show us your life" series?
I regress. Back to the title. We had our landscaping completed, seeded lawn included, prior to the move-in on Oct. 1st. Shortly after that heaven's floodgates opened and dumped several inches on us and our poor yard took a major hit. Our landscaping fell about a foot to a foot and a half around the perimeter of the house. We've been waiting for the weather to warm up this spring so they could fix it. Plus, we were unable to finish the fence to allow for all the heavy machinery to get into the backyard. I'm sure the neighbors love our tacky snow fence. Our repair list includes: ripping out and re-doing all the beds, adding and compacting the dirt, burying all downspouts, adding pop-up drains. Oh not to mention ripping out our front sidewalk and shaving down the front of the yard to fix some more drainage issues. We are just thankful we've had no water in the basement! Can you tell I'm excited about this whole process? So please, weather can you clear up for a couple of weeks so they can get to work?
Exciting news though because they'll be re-doing a lot of things already, we've decided to add some things to their list. Why not, right? So we add a stone patio, built-in fire pit, additional flower beds in the corners and switch the deck stair orientation around! I promise to add some before and after pics. But for now, how about some pictures of our temporary pond!
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| The water drainage issue washed away all the seed on this side :( |
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| We are thinking about adding koi?! |
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| Aren't our tacky pvc pipe/downspouts awesome :) |
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| This is where the retaining wall beds fell. |
Love,
Chris, Amber & Cameron
