Playing on the patio

Tyson hates the grass. Unless you hold his hand, he all but refuses to walk in it. We had a patio installed just a few weeks ago and he loves to run around it and kick his soccer ball.

Ahhh...summer!

My Last 2 Weeks.

I just finished two weeks of work hell. Two hearings and two full day mediations, plus client phone calls after hours and on the weekends. Dealing with divorces and family dramas is exhausting. Seriously, it felt like I had two law school finals weeks in a row. I billed 73 hours in those two weeks, which makes my boss pretty happy. To you 9-5ers that may not seem like a lot, but every lawyer I know will tell you that it takes 8 hours of actually being at work just to bill 6. I'm glad it's over.

So, how did I spend my first relaxing weekend? I could have lounged by the neighborhood pool, taken a relaxing trip to the lake or sipped margaritas at an outdoor cantina, but no. Instead, I spent the weekend helping Ryan stain our fence.

It has become THE summer project of our neighborhood and it absolutely sucks. I think our neighbors will be as happy as we are once it's finished. They will no longer have to hear the annoying sounds of the pressure washer or the paint sprayer. Nor will they have to look at our partially completed project any longer. It would have been done yesterday, but we have officially bought our local Sherwin-Williams out of semi-transparent stain. Since we ran out of stain, tonight was to be the night that we finished the project. Instead, it's supposed to rain every night this week and then we are leaving for a wedding in Chicago on Friday afternoon. I guess the project will have to wait another week. The only good thing about this project is that our fence looks damn good. Even the neighbors think so.

I will post some progress pics once I find that little cord to connect the camera to my computer.

Let the Battle begin!

I'm talking about the awful dandelions. Grr.



We, thanks to our previous owners, have one of the worst lawns in our neighborhood. A neighborhood where people REALLY care about their yards. Apparently, (after confirmation from our neighbors) when the previous couple actually lived together, the husband kept the yard immaculate. It was a thick, lush, green lawn without a hint of a weed. Then, one summer came and went with the wife living in our house without the husband. All it takes is one summer to turn the yard into a den of weeds, especially on a 3 year old lawn.

Now, we're trying our hardest (I promise neighbors we are really trying!) to eradicate the weeds. Between me and Ryan, we dug out 4 grocery bags of dandelions in two days and those were just the ones we could see! Those little devils pop up as soon as the sun shines.

One day I hope for our lawn to return to it's prior glory. Until then, we will batttle, one little yellow dandelion at a time.

Photo courtesy of Corbis.