I should really trim the hedge around my house twice per year. This past year though, I only trimmed the front part, and left the sideyard hedge untouched.
Today, the first day of the 4 day Memorial Day weekend, I decided that I had to trim the side yard hedge. Below are some pictures as I am about 2/3 of the way finished. I am cutting down 6+ feet of hedge to bring it down to a manageable 6 foot tall.
We have 98% completed demolition of the first floor. We are working with a cabinet maker to design the kitchen. The electrician has made his first visit to the site. Things are progressing.
One recent project was to pull up the old kitchen floor. Under the fairly modern vinyl floor were linoleum (I think) tiles. The tiles were affixed with tar to the sub floor. Everything came up fairly easily and we exposed the subfloor in just a few hours.
This is a view from the front door down to the end of the house. Many people had lobbied Toby to make a wall on the far side of the back door, so as create a small laundry room. However, recently while walking through, Toby decided that she really wanted a larger mud room, and so the wall will be built on the near side of the back door. I think everything will work out OK.
What used to be the front office will be a room with semi-private access to the first floor bathroom. We have converted the first floor bathroom to a jack-and-jill bathroom. The doorways were opened up wide to be ADA compliant for the day when old folks might be joining us in Carp.
This is a view from the back living room (formerly our master bedroom) into the kids room. You can see some more funky tiles on the floor that need to be pulled up.
Lucy’s birthday party at the beach was a success. Only half of the little girls cried at any one time. Lucy had the worst crying as she got fistfuls of sand in each eye. Below are pictures of some of the more pleasant times.
Max took his friend Ben to the beach also. Ben was hesitant to go until we convinced him that he was just going to the beach with Max. Ben was concerned that he was going to a girls birthday party and wanted nothing to do with that!
Guitarist
Cowboy
We are headed to the Dodgers vs. Giants tomorrow afternoon. I spent a lot of time at dodgers.com trying to buy tickets, but ticketmaster kept offering me the same 4 tickets. I like StubHub.com, but ended up buying from a lady in Ventura via Craigslist.
So many choices…