Been outside in the sun

Gosh friends, didn't plan to be gone so long. Had I known, I would have said goodbye.

There's just no sense in anybody going this crazy over a few warm sunny day! I've been like a mad woman!

Let's see...we dug up the big cedar stump in front of the shop. The one from the cedar tree that fell during that last hurricane. That took the better part of a day!

We then had to re-build the path...

and scrounge up all the bricks we could find here and there, then make a trip to Lowes in Wake Forest for a load of red rock...

and I spent a day digging rich black soil from behind the chicken lot to fill in the yard on the right side of the path, which had become a big mud hole with all the rain lately.

Then back to the chicken lot and the retaining wall I built from scrap pieces of tin...

The wall seems to be working, but it all needed something to make it look a little better.

Went to Walmart and bought three cans of flat black spray paint. Then dug out load after wheelbarrow load of that black soil and dumped it in the front yard, leaving a right pretty path around the back of the chicken lot...after raking up two loads of pine straw from off the dam and bringing it here.

Looking better, but all that rusty rebar needed something too...maybe I'll weave twigs in and out of that old rebar! A wattle fence!

but shoot! It doesn't show up as pretty in the picture as it looks in person.

Still need to finish up those side pieces. Just got tired of working on the chicken lot and went on to more fun stuff.

The playhouse!

My daughter Andee and son-in-law Todd took down a gazebo from their back yard and gifted us with a stack of really nice boards. Todd said, "you could use them to build a floor in your playhouse". Well, my mind has not rested since hearing those words. 

See, I've never really been happy with the playhouse, (potting shed), because of the wet, messy, uneven ground. The potting bench never sat level and was no fun to use.

Never built a floor before! First I found four 4" x 4" posts for the foundation, then dug and chopped and raked trying to get all these posts level. Poppy said once I got all the boards measured and marked, he would cut them with the skill saw, or is it called a circular saw?? We got half the boards cut.

Tomorrow we've got errands to run. Oh, and Eli has an appointment with the groomer, which he really needs, especially after playing inside the garden fence while I worked on the playhouse floor and Poppy re-painted the front of the shop.

He is like a big ball of velcro. I did get the other side brushed off before he got on his blanket.

Like me, all the animals have enjoyed these warm sunny day after weeks of rain! 

Better end this. Here it is bedtime. Getting late, and I hear Poppy milling around in the kitchen!  I promise to visit and catch up once again. Thank you for visiting.

Love,
Henny