"Patella! Some man is tearing up your yard!!"

August 2013

Not shockingly, progress on the house has been SLOW!  Everyone thinks we just stopped the blog, but really we only blog when we work on the house.... so that should tell you something.

Over the past month, we have continued to attack the yard.

Here is was before the current work:

Notice the lovely Koi pond:

And here the tilling begun: (My friend's daughter was over and yelled to me in a very concerned voice- "Patella!  Some man is tearing up your yard!!)... (Patella is my derby name)

Notice the lack of a koi pond. We finally filled it!

After it was all tilled, Alok got to work laying grass seed (there is he is down below):

Well, this area was just ripped up and we didn't plant anything:

Anyone remember the hay debacle of 2011?  Alok put down a reasonable amount this time, although he still had to return 6 bails.  Here is the grass starting to grow:

In other outdoor news, we are also getting the rest of the outside of the house painted at the beginning of September!  Alok had to fix the porch (aka the bat lair) outside our front door. He's been dreading it for months, but it went by very quickly.

Here it is to start:

Here it is finished:

Ummm.. yes, we know that isn't straight. He is adding molding. So, I guess it is almost complete. 

In super awesome news, this guy is mobile and is also 9 months old. AH!  Anyone have any idea to childproof a house from 1886 that is being remodeled..... this should be interesting



Hopefully we will be back soon!

Jessica