On track?

As of right now I'm not sure if we are going to get our sprinklers in by the end of March. But looking at my post, what I wanted to do was measure and figure out what it is going to cost. We measured, I can't decipher it so I need Trev to go over it with me. We did however, do great with the front yard. Better than I expected. :) I will get some photos up when stuff starts blossoming and looking and smelling awesome. We have also decided that we are going to lay sod in the backyard instead of trying to do seed again. With a cat, a dog, and a garden that needs tending it will be really difficult to stay off the seed for 3 weeks. I found a place that does grass specifically for the local climate for $.28 per square foot. We should be able to do the yard for about $175. Yesssssss.

I am looking forward to April and being done with the kitchen remodel! I have 4 recessed lights in my front room and I believe our cabinets are nearly finished. Once the kitchen, lighting, sprinklers and sod are in I will be a very happy camper. I am not planning on doing any other "big" projects on this house. Homeostasis will be nice.

Shitty morning of shittiness

Let me give you some background:

Last Friday my mom called me to tell me she has nodules all over her thyroid and while odds are in our favor for them not to be cancerous, it is still scary to me. They did a needle biopsy on Monday and the results were sent to her Dr first thing Wednesday morning. He didn't call all day to give her the results so she went to his office this morning. The result: inconclusive. We will hopefully know more soon. According to statistics, even if they are cancerous, thyroid cancer is not very deadly. This is all in the back of my mind and probably blowing other things out of proportion.

We moved everything that belongs in the kitchen into the living room, so it wouldn't get covered in drywall dust. My house is a fucking mess. I don't function well in chaos. I gave my house key to Trev's dad so that he could get in and work on the kitchen and let the electrician in and what not. Trev and I have been sharing 1 key between the two of us, so it isn't on a ring or anything. We lost the key in the chaos last night and have not been able to find it. I had one of those mornings where you have to go back into the house a million times (I think 6 but that counts as a million to me) because you keep forgetting shit you need to bring. Getting into the house without a key is a major pain in the ass.

After I am finally on my way to work (LATE), my check engine light comes on for probably the ____th time (I don't even know anymore) since I've had that car. Can I just have a do-over of today? I seriously feel like I might scream at some point. Maybe it will feel good if I do.

Dusty

We had such nice weather last weekend and both spent ALL day Sunday working in the yard. I was so sore and tired by the end of it, don't know how Trev does it all day every day. But we got the leaves raked out of the front flower beds and I dug the grass that's growing in them out with a shovel. I did this last year and it also sucked then, but since we had put a layer of bark down, it was easier this year. Still sucked though. We are nearly done touching up the front yard for the year, though. I'm very happy about that since now we will only have to do maintenance type stuff on it for the rest of the season. It's nice to pull up to a nice looking front yard :D Here are Dex and Lily helping.

Last night we tore out the rest of the wall that is leaving in our kitchen. DUSTY! I put some plastic up on the doorways and it made a big difference. I'm really hoping to have this kitchen done by the end of April.

!March!

I have worn short sleeves for the last TWO DAYS and I'm going skiing on Friday! Gotta love Utah season transitions! I haven't seen any flowers come up yet but I am really looking forward to it. I have some pics of the first phase of wall removal but I don't have my camera with me today. I'm hoping hoping hoping that we are done with the kitchen remodel by the end of April since garden season really starts to take off after that. Here are some of the things I would like to get done this month:

Sprinklers -- Measure them (and not lose the paper like we did before) and figure out how much it will cost. Trev recently went to a sprinkler expo too so hopefully this will not be such the daunting task we have been expecting. I'm also sick of not having any grass in the back yard. White tiles, dog door, 8 paws...you get the picture.

Front yard -- Rosebushes need pruning, dead stuff needs to come out of the beds. With this warm(ish) weather I have really been dying to get out there and do it but we have been soooo busy. We have added A LOT of mulch to the beds to try and keep the weeds (mostly grass) out of them and there is really only one spot where it's coming back. Ugh and the dreaded blue flower stuff that spreads LIKE CRAZY with roots like small trees. Hopefully one truckload of new mulch will do the trick!