I will fully admit that one of the biggest perks (in my mind) of having our home part of the parade of homes is that we have to have some of the landscaping done. Part of our agreement when we signed on for it was that we'd do some of the work and have a smaller budget for landscaping (thus meaning more of it had to come directly out of our pocket--even though it all comes out of our pocket in the end). Today we got sod! Blake, as mentioned in the previous post, did a lot of rock shoveling over the weekend to help with some of it. And today when we got out there the sod drove up so i left him there with the crew and i went and got the boys from school took them to piano and then headed back out. They had just finished laying the sod and were running the sprinklers on it as we pulled up. Now that the part that HAS to be done for the parade is done they are running sprinklers for the back and they will hydro seed the back yard too. It was a small amount more to have it done that way, but it will be really nice to have it all done. Not to say it's going to be done to what I'd say as complete, but at least we will have grass and sprinklers and future projects to dream up. Oh and as a side note. just as we pulled up i jumped out to go give a friend a tour of the house as the boys were putting their books and games away and i left them to get out of the car on their own. After the tour and as we got out side the boys told me they had seen a snake. Chills ran down my spine as they told me that as Sam was getting out of the car he saw a snake about 3 feet away from the car on the curb of the driveway. EEEEEKKK!!!! Sam (who didn't want to move out to saratoga because there were snakes) then got back into the car really slowly and quietly. Then Sam turned to Ethan and Ryan that were still there in the car and whispered to them about it (so he wouldn't scare the snake). A little bit later when Blake came out of the house, there Sam was motioning from the car window for him to see the snake. Luckily it wasn't a rattle snake, but either way it was a big snake! Sheesh. what kind of welcome was that?
I asked Blake if there was a spray for snakes, he said yeah a 12 gage shotgun spray. I guess I'm gonna have to get me a gun.
4 comments:
Your house and grass look great. And--Oh. my. heck. That snake would have scared the you know what out of me!! 8S
Your yard looks great! Sorry about the snake. Hopefully you won't get many more! :P
ehhhhhh... I HATE snakes. Love the house, hate the snake.
That snake was definitely not what we wanted to see but we can work around that. The kids can play on the balcony. Stephanie, we need access to your blog so we can see your house.
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