Still more Thursday!
Jul. 5th, 2007 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyThe guy from down the block came by and started work on the yard---the front and sides have been whacked into a semblence of order, and he's coming back tomorrow, weather permitting, to do the back. The amount he quoted made me stagger---he'll be getting a check for it, which means add $30 to the total unless it doesn't clear til after next Friday. (Thank God for overdraft protection, is all I can say.) I don't have a choice; my court date is next week, and the sawgrass in the backyard is *literally* five feet tall. I've been trying frantically to get someone, anyone out there, and so far, he's IT.
On the plus side, he lives right around the corner, so it'll be easy to get ahold of him. He's going to make me a deal on services by the month after the initial clearing. Having seen his house before he moved in and after, I *know* he can do a helluva job. I'd really like to have my place look good and stay that way. H.W.S.N.B.N. did the bare minimum of yard work, and it's been a long time since I've had a reliable yard guy.
The backyard has potential (like so much else around here!), but I rarely use it because it's inconvenient---the sliding glass doors have been frozen in their tracks for a VERY long time---I don't think they've been opened in---I amend that, I know damn well they haven't been opened in at least three years. What I'd LIKE to do, given money and a good DIY'er, is to replace them. Not with more doors, but with a door and a windowed wall beside it.
On the left, the back wall of my dining room as is, on the right, the pie-in-the-sky view:
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I'd like to have access to my own backyard without having to go clear around the house to get there! That's not an unreasonable desire, right? It would be pleasant to be able to take a book out under the grapefruit tree and spend a quiet hour, or to set up the grill out back and grill up some brats.
Snapping back to reality, I have work tomorrow AND I'm probably going to be awakened early by the growl of a mower. *moans* I will think positive and NOT pray for rain.
PS, tonight was the first time I've seen "Playthings", and I'm STILL snickering about the "butch" comment, and Dean's revenge. Gotta love those boys!
On the plus side, he lives right around the corner, so it'll be easy to get ahold of him. He's going to make me a deal on services by the month after the initial clearing. Having seen his house before he moved in and after, I *know* he can do a helluva job. I'd really like to have my place look good and stay that way. H.W.S.N.B.N. did the bare minimum of yard work, and it's been a long time since I've had a reliable yard guy.
The backyard has potential (like so much else around here!), but I rarely use it because it's inconvenient---the sliding glass doors have been frozen in their tracks for a VERY long time---I don't think they've been opened in---I amend that, I know damn well they haven't been opened in at least three years. What I'd LIKE to do, given money and a good DIY'er, is to replace them. Not with more doors, but with a door and a windowed wall beside it.
On the left, the back wall of my dining room as is, on the right, the pie-in-the-sky view:
- I'd like to have access to my own backyard without having to go clear around the house to get there! That's not an unreasonable desire, right? It would be pleasant to be able to take a book out under the grapefruit tree and spend a quiet hour, or to set up the grill out back and grill up some brats.
Snapping back to reality, I have work tomorrow AND I'm probably going to be awakened early by the growl of a mower. *moans* I will think positive and NOT pray for rain.
PS, tonight was the first time I've seen "Playthings", and I'm STILL snickering about the "butch" comment, and Dean's revenge. Gotta love those boys!