There is nothing like a major family event to inspire a
whole lot of spring cleaning and to revive a neglected house blog. Between now
and early August, our house will be transformed from a neglected, unkempt look
to wedding beauty. The wedding will be inside and the dinner just outside the
house. Inside, outside, and upside down, we have a whole lot of projects. The
deadline means that we may actually complete them.
- Exterior paint. This is a whole lot of prep work
and then a whole lot of painting. Hopefully a crew will do a good bit of it. We
have not found the painter, but we are beginning to assemble products,
including a rot treatment for some of the beams on the eaves.
- New decking. The front deck, where the wedding
party may have their dinner, is actually falling apart. We had planned to
re-deck it in the next year. Make that by August.
- De-trashing our utility areas. This has also been
in the plan for a while. I’ll get some photos to make the point that if you
leave a lot of trash around, your house can look trashy. Who knew.
- Rock on roadways. The landscape includes a small
road through the property. Half of it has stone to keep down the mud, dirt, and
weeds. We’ll finish that three-year-old project.
Besides these four key projects, we have many smaller fix-it
sort of jobs in the landscape and to support some of the bigger projects like
painting. The whirlwind is about to begin.
