Weekend Update

Man am I sore. We spent the majority of Saturday at Lowe's, picking up things for lawn care and some paint for the exterior doors. We have never liked the teal color the previous owner had painted the exterior doors (side garage door, basement walk-out door and the front door and two side-lights). We also made a run to Sam's Club and I picked out a nice whole beef tenderloin for cutting up into filets, and a family pack of chicken breasts. We stocked up on some other stuff, too.

So ... yesterday morning, I got out pretty early and fertilized the lawn. Janice thought I didn't need the John Deere tow-behind fertilizer spreader, but could manage with a push-type broadcast spreader from Scotts. So ... after nearly having a coronary pushing the thing up and down our hills ... I finished with that around 11:00. I had picked up some herbicide spray, so I also did some spot spraying with that.

We had a little breakfast out on the deck, then hit the ground running with our painting chores. We picked up some tinted primer, and gave all the exterior doors a good coat of primer to start with. We'll let that dry well, and I'll probably work on the doors with the first coat of paint each evening this week. We bought a nice-looking red (sort of like a Japanese maple red) that will look good with the light tan of the vinyl siding. At least we hope so.

We spent a little time Saturday evening hanging pictures, so we'll continue with that until that's finished.

I'm looking out the back slider here in the family room, and we have a few trees that are just starting to turn. It's a little early still, but with the cool weather we've had here the past few days, we are seeing a little gold here and there.

As for my siblings' departure time, in October, I would say it's up to you all. If you're not too tired, then I would say come on up as soon as you can. Usually on Saturday nights we're up pretty late watching Saturday Night Live, so we can wait up for you. We're really looking forward to it!!!