Cry for Help

I know I’m hideously behind on updating ANYTHING to the blog, but on the off chance that anyone is still checking this thing, I really need help with the following two things:

 

1. I moved my light-colored sofa up to the living room, so now I need to find a cheap chair, quickly, that meets the following requirements: big enough for Magnus to lounge in, old enough that it doesn’t matter that it’s his, cheap (like $10-20, maybe), and not infested with pests of any kind. Sidebar: I asked one of the ARMY boyz if I could buy his orange chair that’s in the basement, but he said it’s his gramma’s and he has to give it back to her. To which, I wanted to respond, well, take it the EF back then, this isn’t the G-D self-storage center. But I refrained. Oddly, I saw an almost-identical chair out on the curb yesterday morning while we were on out walk. It would have been the perfect find, but ever since hearing about the active bedbug problem in Norwood and surrounding areas, I haven’t been taking things off the curb unless they are strictly for the outdoors.
2. I took Justin to the vaccum doctor yesterday and his prognosis is good, but his recovery will be slow. In other words, he needs a new brush roller, and it will take at least 2 weeks for the guy to get the part in. The upshot is that this is covered under warranty. The downside is that I really need to vacuum before Friday and none of my other vacuums are going to cut it. Can someone either loan me a vacuum, or if you don’t trust me not to break your vacuum, come over and vacuum with me? I can’t begin to explain how badly the rugs need it, so any help with this would be appreciated.

 

K, gotta run – it’s nutz around the house and at work these days and I’m trying to keep all these plates spinning at once…

The Long and Short of it

My hair, that is.

 

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I'm ridiculously excited

that I'm getting one of these.




it should be here next week.




i can hardly wait.




oh, the leveling i will do.



does anyone else have the problem where the lines don't break when using the "enter" key? It's only when I post using the blogger interface, not when I send as an email.


Also, check out my flickr if you want to see the tons of pics I've taken and captioned but not been able to post on the blog yet.

Allow me to elaborate

on what's happening in the Great Big Backyard Project of 2007.

1. A fence is being erected, behind the carport, to create a playplace for Magnus to stay in while I'm gone during the day (weather permitting, of course, and he will have a doghouse back there but this isn't where he will live, just where he'll stay when I'm not around to keep him company).

In order to build the playplace, the old weed box (which many people thought was the compost pile but was actually really just a big box of weeds) was taken out when the Bobcat was here.

Also while the Bobcat was here, the big blue spruce was taken down. I had mixed feelings about this because I never liked where it was placed in the yard, but I also didn't want to just kill the tree. Now that it's gone, I'm really glad. Just like when I took out the big bush the first summer, this has really opened up the yard.

2. A patio is being installed, slowly but surely. We have gravel. But not all of it.

3. The left side (looking from my back porch) fence line is being landscaped. Another bit-by-bit project. When finished, this will have a brick row for the mower to ride along. I like the Arbor Vitae but I don't looove them here. I'm not sure if I'm going to stay with this idea or not.

4. An add-on to the carport will be built at some point in the future. I'll use this space for a potting bench and storage for garden tools. I'm also going to start using the overhead section of the carport for more organized storage of outdoor crap that's currently in the basement like screen and storm windows and other such things.

5. I was thinking I might sod the remaining part of the yard this month, but I'm worried that we might get a weird early frost just like this weird summer weather, so I've decided to wait until spring to install the sod. That will give me more time to prep the ground because I'd like to bring in a load of topsoil and till it in and grade the yard to get rid of all the dips and valleys before putting the sod down. I won't be doing anything with the ground on the playplace side of the fence since I fully expect Magnus to destroy that side anyway.