Sad to say my project with putting our wedding pictures in the long collage frame isn't doing so great!! Those frames have 11 vertical slots to put pics in and 10 horizontal .. we only have 6 pics that will go in a vertical spot and bunches and bunches of pics for horizontal spots .. soooooooo ... we will be taking that frame back and searching for some other way of framing all those pictures!!!
Meanwhile .. I did put 4 of the pictures in the smaller frame that I got when my daughters and I were in Illinois "treasure hunting" ..
That's it for now ..
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 ..
Ken has his new Delta Thickness Planer!!! That was quick .. he ordered it online from CPO (???? don't ask me .. LOL) Tuesday and UPS delivered it today!!! We got lucky .. we had just gotten home from our day's running around when the UPS truck pulled up to deliver it .. so they didn't have to leave it on the porch!!
Can you believe it .. he is actually reading the instructions for how to put it together!!!
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27
They told us they would be grading and sodding our lots mid-September but this morning we noticed they were sodding one of the lots out across the area between our villa and Caroline's .. and now they are out working on the dirt in our lot and Bill and Anita's .. Ken is out in the yard keeping an eye on what they're doing ..
I stepped out on the deck a while ago to see how things were going and Bill and Anita were out on their deck watching too but by the time I got inside to get the camera and got back outside they had gone inside .. darn the luck!!! However, I took a closer up pic of their place so you could see how nice their patio looks ..
She potted a bunch of her plants from her flower garden at the home they sold and brought with her .. she is planning to plant them next Spring!!
A funny story .. remember I was going to put our wedding pictures in a long collage frame to put on the wall with the 2 frames of family pictures??? As I was thinking on doing this I was thinking there should be an album of wedding pictures some place .. but I looked and looked and couldn't find them. I found an album of pictures from a surprise shower the Bread Company Bunch had for us .. and an album with pictures from our Honeymoon .. but no Wedding album!! I finally gave up and found the pictures on my computer and sent them off to Walgreens to be printed .. still dumbfounded .. Ken and I both found it hard to believe that I would get copies of all those other pictures and put them in an album but not the wedding pictures!!! Got the pictures .. put a few in the small frame as I showed you .. got a collage frame but it wouldn't work because we didn't have enough vertical pictures for the vertical spots .. took the frame back .. have been trying ever since to decide what we wanted to do with all those wedding pictures we now have. Still saying every now and then "I'm sure we had copies made of the wedding pictures and did an album" still keeping an eye out for a wedding album somewhere.
We finally decided that Ken would create one of those chickenwire frames to put family pictures on to add to the "family wall" and we would get a nice album to put the wedding pictures in. While we were out and about Monday we went to Hobby Lobby in Arnold and got the chicken wire .. and bought a scrapbook and scrap booking paper and double-sided tape to create an album for the wedding pictures. We hadn't any more than gotten home than it hit me .. OMG .. I know where that wedding album is .. it has been right in front of us all this time .. in the old black curio cabinet we call our "Memories Cabinet" ..
Isn't it amazing how blind you can be????? Not to mention how forgetful!!! Anyway .. there it is .. our Wedding Album .. right there in plain sight!!! We have been driving ourselves bonkers about this thing .. looking and looking .. and amazed at ourselves that we did NOT create an album of pictures .. thinking that surely we did but convincing ourselves we must not have .. and right there it is .. LOL!!! Soooooo .. we have some scrap booking things to take back .. but we're keeping the chicken wire .. I like the chicken wire frames and we have a big empty spot on that wall we need to fill .. so we will put more up to date family pictures in it if we decide not to put the wedding pictures in it!!! WOWSY .. how goofy the Novak's are .. LOL!!!
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28
The noise makers are out working on our lot again this morning .. they started about 6:30!!! They're "playing" in Bill and Anita's yard too.
The rolls of Sod across the way .. the green grass you see in the yard of the villa right behind the yellow tractor is the Sod that was put down yesterday morning!!
We're thinking we just might get the Sod in our yard a whole lot sooner than they said!!!! Yayyyyyyy!!!!
Yep .. sure 'nough .. looked out a little while later and they had rolls of Sod lined up on the hill behind Bill and Anita's place ...
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27
They told us they would be grading and sodding our lots mid-September but this morning we noticed they were sodding one of the lots out across the area between our villa and Caroline's .. and now they are out working on the dirt in our lot and Bill and Anita's .. Ken is out in the yard keeping an eye on what they're doing ..
I stepped out on the deck a while ago to see how things were going and Bill and Anita were out on their deck watching too but by the time I got inside to get the camera and got back outside they had gone inside .. darn the luck!!! However, I took a closer up pic of their place so you could see how nice their patio looks ..
A funny story .. remember I was going to put our wedding pictures in a long collage frame to put on the wall with the 2 frames of family pictures??? As I was thinking on doing this I was thinking there should be an album of wedding pictures some place .. but I looked and looked and couldn't find them. I found an album of pictures from a surprise shower the Bread Company Bunch had for us .. and an album with pictures from our Honeymoon .. but no Wedding album!! I finally gave up and found the pictures on my computer and sent them off to Walgreens to be printed .. still dumbfounded .. Ken and I both found it hard to believe that I would get copies of all those other pictures and put them in an album but not the wedding pictures!!! Got the pictures .. put a few in the small frame as I showed you .. got a collage frame but it wouldn't work because we didn't have enough vertical pictures for the vertical spots .. took the frame back .. have been trying ever since to decide what we wanted to do with all those wedding pictures we now have. Still saying every now and then "I'm sure we had copies made of the wedding pictures and did an album" still keeping an eye out for a wedding album somewhere.
We finally decided that Ken would create one of those chickenwire frames to put family pictures on to add to the "family wall" and we would get a nice album to put the wedding pictures in. While we were out and about Monday we went to Hobby Lobby in Arnold and got the chicken wire .. and bought a scrapbook and scrap booking paper and double-sided tape to create an album for the wedding pictures. We hadn't any more than gotten home than it hit me .. OMG .. I know where that wedding album is .. it has been right in front of us all this time .. in the old black curio cabinet we call our "Memories Cabinet" ..
Isn't it amazing how blind you can be????? Not to mention how forgetful!!! Anyway .. there it is .. our Wedding Album .. right there in plain sight!!! We have been driving ourselves bonkers about this thing .. looking and looking .. and amazed at ourselves that we did NOT create an album of pictures .. thinking that surely we did but convincing ourselves we must not have .. and right there it is .. LOL!!! Soooooo .. we have some scrap booking things to take back .. but we're keeping the chicken wire .. I like the chicken wire frames and we have a big empty spot on that wall we need to fill .. so we will put more up to date family pictures in it if we decide not to put the wedding pictures in it!!! WOWSY .. how goofy the Novak's are .. LOL!!!
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28
The noise makers are out working on our lot again this morning .. they started about 6:30!!! They're "playing" in Bill and Anita's yard too.
The rolls of Sod across the way .. the green grass you see in the yard of the villa right behind the yellow tractor is the Sod that was put down yesterday morning!!
We're thinking we just might get the Sod in our yard a whole lot sooner than they said!!!! Yayyyyyyy!!!!
Yep .. sure 'nough .. looked out a little while later and they had rolls of Sod lined up on the hill behind Bill and Anita's place ...
Snapped the pictures of the rolls of Sod behind Bill and Anita's at 8:54 AM
Rolling the Sod in the back yard of the villa attached to ours .. 10:43 am
11:16 am .. Sod has been laid in our back yard and the guys are "fluffing" it!!! Looks like they're laying carpet!!!
Click on the link below to watch them lay the Sod ..
WANT'A WATCH THEM LAY THE SOD????
And the sprinklers ARE working!!!
TO BE CONTINUED!!!!
12:17 pm .. we are headed for Lowe's and Bob Evans and they are working their way up the hill between our houses into the front yard ....
3:49pm .. I could hardly wait to get back home to see how the yard looked .. we will have grass at last!!!! We were shopping at Wally World and got a call from the guy who works with the company who put the lawn sprinklers in .. he was on our front porch and needed to get into the garage so he could use the sprinkler controls and check out the sprinkler system!!! It's a good thing I had given them my cell phone number!!! We hurried right home .. and look what we saw .. GRASS .. Yaaayyyyy!!!!
And the sprinklers ARE working!!!
You have to keep the Sod wet but not too wet .. so the sprinklers are set to come on 3 times a day for 20 minutes each time .. for the next 2 weeks!! Our next water bill is going to be a dandy!!!!
Hi Liz and Ken ! I like your hat rack !!! Good Job, Ken !! Your hats look great there !! Liz, I like your pics of your wedding in your frame !! You did a good job too !! Very Nice !!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kathy .. I have LOTS more wedding pics I want to do something with just have to find the right frame / frames to put them in!! I thought he did a great job with his hat racks too!!! He's still got a bunch more hats in a box in the storage area .. I told him to put up a double row of racks in the closet but he said "no" .. I'm thinking when we get the TV and Computer area walled off he could put a rack across the wall .. we'll see!!!
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