I've gone green!

Ok maybe it isn't all the way green. The weather was great today. I walked to and from work today. It was great. It takes a half an hour to do the walk. I may have to do that more often.

Dining by the fire

I've spent the afternoon reorganizing the house. We were using the fireplace room for all the boxes we had not unpacked yet. Steph unpacked most of them and I moved the rest to the basement. We then moved the table and chairs in. Now we have a dining room. I need to figure out how to move the chandelier in there now. Unless I decide to put a ceiling fan in.

My nightmare has come true

When I was younger I had to care for my family's yard. Really all that meant was I mowed and ran the weed eater. I hated it. I wanted to go play basketball. So I swore that I would never be someone who cared about my yard. I was always trying to talk my dad into buying a more expensive nicer mower. He never really did. Now as I was thinking about buying a mower we were talking on the phone and he said to "spend a little more and get one that mulches". Of course I just wanted the cheapest thing I could find. Back then I wanted to just rip all the grass out and install astro turf. Well I'm still all for the astro turf but it's expensive and my wife thinks it's ugly. So I'm stuck trying to make what I have look good. Unfortunately the people who lived here before us put in a bunch of lava rocks. The bed of rocks just collects leaves and small sticks. I spent the morning picking sticks. It looks like I never even started. Here is a picture to show you how many sticks I picked up this morning.

Look past the big pile and the cute kid and you can see the lava rocks and the ton of sticks that are still in it. There has to be a better way to get them out of there.

Storms

We have had a few good storms. One of the schools even had to cancel graduation halfway through because of a tornado warning. The rescheduled for this last Friday and we had a tornado watch and a storm come through again. We kind of live on a hill now so we're not really worried about flooding. We do have a small problem in the basement. Our house still has an old coal shoot. Some smart guy in the past put the down spout right next to it. I need to either reroute the downspout or seal the coal shoot better. I'll probably try to do both. I'll try to take some pictures of the house sometime soon so you can see it. I should have pictures from a recent 5k as well.