I don't know what I do different on the weekends that make my nose swell up the way it does. Can't breath. I finally got myself breathing better this morning and then it was just so nice out I had to get some things done. I get moaning and groaning if I ask the boys to do the leaf blowing, so I just do it. I fixed all our big rocks in the gravel area between our two driveways...something that had to be done after the driveways were poured. Then since I needed to blow the leaves out of there anyways it was time to blow off the front of the house too. There were so many leaves from fall and winter that you could have jumped off the raised porch into the pile. I didn't want to tempt the kids. The thought of all that leaf dust just makes me ill. I blew it to the other side of the house, so hopefully it won't blow back.
They finished our deck this week and while it's much, much smaller than I had planned...not my decision....Brian's quick decision while they were working on it and we won't go there. It's much sturdier than our old deck and looks nice. When the weather gets warm in the spring we'll seal it so it doesn't wear as hard as the old deck. The stairs are so nice....they don't shake the whole thing when you walk down them. We had so much vinyl rail left from the old deck that we used some of it to make a little handrail for our new concrete steps. I would so manage to fall if it's not there. Like Brian said, this is the best the house has ever looked. He put some siding up where we took the deck down and put mortar in the holes on the brick from the old deck. You can't even tell it ever existed.
Now I can enjoy spring when it comes. But, for tonight, I will be paying for all that leaf blowing. Kaelin (who's got a little cold) and I are a symphony of snuffs, coughs and heavy breathing. It's very lovely.
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