Nature Drive

Since it was way too wet on Tuesday to do any landscaping, we took the day off. We decided to take a drive up in the hills behind our house. Saw lots of deer and a couple different groups of elk.

Seal Foundation-- Check!

Well we got the whole messy business finished despite some heavy rains. The foundation is sealed, the drain tile was set, and we filled it all back in. Now we have a solid clay dirt yard. It's really pretty! We also got our sidewalks put back in and we built a cute little deck which we will seal on Monday. Still doing some landscaping. I guess the next big project is finding all the underground sprinkler heads that have been buried. We have a rough idea where they may be.

Messy Business

Yesterday we finally started on the project that we have been putting off for almost 2 years-- sealing the foundation. It didn't take us long at all to "dig in".

While Tim was digging, I was doing some landscaping. I cleaned out the beds and put some new bushes in and added landscaping rocks.

That pretty much took care of yesterday! Today we sealed the foundation and were able to start backfilling. It's going way faster than planned which is really good. But boy do we have a mess! The soil is pretty much pure clay-- just a sticky mucky mess. It's also fun that the house is on one of the busiest streets in Lewistown.

We had sold a recliner to a lady at our garage sale on Saturday, and she was coming to pick it up today. She drove right past our house because she didn't recognize it with all the dirt and gravel piles in front of it! I have some better pictures of all the mess on my camera that I left in town. These are just pictures from my phone. Stay tuned....

4th of July Weekend

Things have been pretty busy around here. Since getting back from Costa Rica we have finally finished the siding and window job out past Buffalo. It's so nice not having to drive clear out there everyday. We have since been prepping our house in Lewistown, getting it ready for the big excavation tomorrow. We've also been working on the basement bathroom. We have one coat of mud on so far.

On Friday we had a little BBQ with some friends and family. We had some yummy buffalo and whitetail brats. It was a nice, casual gathering. It was fun to do some catching up.

Saturday was quite the day. We had what we called a "Multi-Generation" Garage Sale in Lewistown. We had truckloads of stuff from Grandmas, mom's and our house as well. It was unbelievable the amount of stuff we had. We had it scheduled for 7:00 that morning, so we had to get up pretty early. There was only one other garage sale that day. We weren't really sure what the turnout was going to be on 4th of July.

We got to town by 6:30 and there were already people stalking around waiting for us. As soon as we opened the garage doors to start pulling stuff out, people started showing up from every direction! When mom pulled up 10 minutes later, we were in full swing and not even set up yet! It was a lot of fun though. It's so funny to see the kinds of things people buy and when they try to haggle you. We weren't really in it to make money, we just wanted to get rid of stuff, so we took any offer. One guy bought some floor cover stuff that you put under laminate flooring and a margarita glass! We had to send Tim to get us some McDonald's breakfast at one point. It stayed pretty steady up until the parade started at 11:00. Grandma Jo came down and sat with us until the end. Tim and I went to the parade and left them in charge. We stayed open until about 2:30 and we got rid of alooooooot of stuff. It was amazing. It was such a whirlwind. And we all made some pretty good money too!

This morning we went to mom and dads to borrow their skid steer and rototiller for our excavation work. We dropped it off in Lewistown and dug up the sprinkler heads around the house. Now we are resting up from our busy weekend and we will be ready to hit it hard tomorrow. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures.