To be honest, this is what I did the past 3 days (worked half a day on Thursday and had Friday off).
Thursday: Left work @ 10:00, came home and picked up my mom and took her to Andy's (the plant/flower place not too far from here). I bought her some plants and flowers for a couple of the planters and one of the new beds I'd cleaned out. From there, we went to another local place Oak Leaf Supply. They have rock, stone, sand, mulch, and dirt you can buy in bulk. I bought a half yard of marble chips. When I got home, I planted all the plants and flowers, then put the marble chips where they were going. That was the 2nd time I'd done that and both times it about wiped me out. Thankfully, though, I had a pretty good shade where I was so it wasn't completely terrible.
Friday: Got out early and started pulling weeds in a couple of the flower beds that had gotten worse than they really should have. I got it done, but it took a couple of hours. Then I got my blower and got out as many leaves as I could from the beds close to the house. All of those beds have rock as ground cover, so it makes it easy to blow the leaves out without having to worry too much about losing any of the ground cover. I also blew off the front porch, the sidewalk, the driveway, and the patio. Then, I put some stuff in the back of the truck to take to the dump on Saturday. That included taking down an old patio umbrella that was attached to a heavy-ass stand. The stand was held down by several bags of sand. So I had to remove the cover that went over the stand, then shovel out the sand, then finally tilt the umbrella over so I could remove it from the base. But doing that gave me some sand that I used to fill in a low spot in one of the flower beds, so that worked out good. So I got that umbrella, an old plastic 50-gallon drum, some old patio chairs, and 2 old plant stands that used to be on the front porch into the truck and strapped down.
Saturday: Took the load to the dump. Then went to Lowe's to pick up my order I'd placed on Friday (didn't feel like getting out on Friday to go get it). While there, I also bought some threaded inserts, socket head cap screws, and a couple packs of cable ties. My order was 4 flexible gutter downspout extensions and a big container of Preen weed preventer. When I got home, I put out some Preen in all of the flower beds to hopefully keep the weeds from coming back so bad. Then I installed the downspout extensions. Two of the downspouts I had to cut ~10" off so the extension would go over some edging and drain into a flower bed. The other 2 went with no modification.
Tomorrow, I need to cut the grass. But I have no other plans to go anywhere or do anything else, so that might be a light day for me, lol. Well, I might go get some beer since I meant to get some on Thursday but forgot.
And I still have some projects I need to finish like getting the wood and hardware for my shop so I can build my new miter saw station, getting the wood for the Christmas village display, and getting the wood and hardware for some drawers I'm going to build that will go in a little storage room downstairs. I definitely work harder when I'm at home than I do when I'm at work. Especially since at my job I'm sitting almost the entire shift in an air-conditioned building.
Thursday: Left work @ 10:00, came home and picked up my mom and took her to Andy's (the plant/flower place not too far from here). I bought her some plants and flowers for a couple of the planters and one of the new beds I'd cleaned out. From there, we went to another local place Oak Leaf Supply. They have rock, stone, sand, mulch, and dirt you can buy in bulk. I bought a half yard of marble chips. When I got home, I planted all the plants and flowers, then put the marble chips where they were going. That was the 2nd time I'd done that and both times it about wiped me out. Thankfully, though, I had a pretty good shade where I was so it wasn't completely terrible.
Friday: Got out early and started pulling weeds in a couple of the flower beds that had gotten worse than they really should have. I got it done, but it took a couple of hours. Then I got my blower and got out as many leaves as I could from the beds close to the house. All of those beds have rock as ground cover, so it makes it easy to blow the leaves out without having to worry too much about losing any of the ground cover. I also blew off the front porch, the sidewalk, the driveway, and the patio. Then, I put some stuff in the back of the truck to take to the dump on Saturday. That included taking down an old patio umbrella that was attached to a heavy-ass stand. The stand was held down by several bags of sand. So I had to remove the cover that went over the stand, then shovel out the sand, then finally tilt the umbrella over so I could remove it from the base. But doing that gave me some sand that I used to fill in a low spot in one of the flower beds, so that worked out good. So I got that umbrella, an old plastic 50-gallon drum, some old patio chairs, and 2 old plant stands that used to be on the front porch into the truck and strapped down.
Saturday: Took the load to the dump. Then went to Lowe's to pick up my order I'd placed on Friday (didn't feel like getting out on Friday to go get it). While there, I also bought some threaded inserts, socket head cap screws, and a couple packs of cable ties. My order was 4 flexible gutter downspout extensions and a big container of Preen weed preventer. When I got home, I put out some Preen in all of the flower beds to hopefully keep the weeds from coming back so bad. Then I installed the downspout extensions. Two of the downspouts I had to cut ~10" off so the extension would go over some edging and drain into a flower bed. The other 2 went with no modification.
Tomorrow, I need to cut the grass. But I have no other plans to go anywhere or do anything else, so that might be a light day for me, lol. Well, I might go get some beer since I meant to get some on Thursday but forgot.
And I still have some projects I need to finish like getting the wood and hardware for my shop so I can build my new miter saw station, getting the wood for the Christmas village display, and getting the wood and hardware for some drawers I'm going to build that will go in a little storage room downstairs. I definitely work harder when I'm at home than I do when I'm at work. Especially since at my job I'm sitting almost the entire shift in an air-conditioned building.
