It's Been Awhile...

Well...I realize I haven't updated the blog in quite some time so I figured I'd tackle that. Expect this to be somewhat long... :-D.

When we left the action, Cass and I had just bought new furniture. Nothing new has happened inside the house, but we've made a few improvements outside. First thing we did was replace the roof on the shed. My brother, Rob, came over and basically replaced the roof while I helped a little. I would've done more, but truthfully, he didn't need much help. Roofing is his job and it was only a 200 sq. ft. roof to boot. As you can see, the shingles were in pretty bad shape before we tackled this project. There was also a little bit of water damage on the plywood beneath some of the shingles so we had to replace some plywood too.

The finished product looks great. Hats off to Rob for a job well done! I love having a shed, so we're going to make sure we take good care of it.

The next thing we did really isn't all that exciting...we killed some grass. There was a reason for this savagery on our ground cover, though. Cass and I decided to put in a small bed for planting some raspberry bushes. In the process of doing this, we found out that our hibiscus tree is really blooming well, so that was cool. Pretty soon, Cass will be getting some raspberry plants from her parents' house that we'll be transplanting to the new bed. Hopefully it'll work. We'll see. Cass and I both like raspberries, so it will be cool to have them if we can successfully grow them. That's a big "IF" though.

Finally, Cass and I decided we were sick and tired of that goofy looking goose with the broken neck at our front door that said "Welcome Friends". We were at Joann's looking for something completely different than a new sign for our front door when we thought we ought to have a look for something since we did in fact want to lose the goose. We were walking toward the back corner of the store where they have unfinished wood products and I saw a great big "E" that was probably 2 feet tall and said, "We could just put a gigantic 'E' on our front door." That "E" was made of cardboard though and we decided against that, however Cass did like the idea of the monogram. So, we ended up finding a little bit smaller monogram and found a "Welcome" wood cutout the we were going to apply to it. Cass already had some great paint colors to use and we picked the maroon color which is pretty much the exact shade as our front door for the "E" and the "Welcome" part is white. We put it all together and are quite happy with the results. We weren't going to advertise it and see how many people notice it, but then I realized how few people have ever even seen the goose, so there went that idea...lol.