Progress...Slow and Sure

Finally some work is getting done at Shangri La Ti Da again.  We had to hire a contractor to do the high up parts over the lower tin roof because we just don't have the equipment to get up there without hurting the roof....contractors are a whole new kind of frustration, but it will be done soon...well, their part will be...maybe as soon as Monday!

Let's start here.

This is the first of nearly 325 of these that need painted.

I've done 25 and we are waiting for more.  These are the battens

for the board and batten finish on part of the house.

The upstairs door that will open onto an upstairs

screened in porch!  So looking forward 

to that....

Still have massive painting to do, but that can wait 

until they go away.  See the one piece that is all done?

Needing a LONG roller stick thingy.

SCALLOPS!  And we're not talking seafood.

And more scallops and there will be some on the

other end of the yellow part, too.

In an effort to make my mowing a little easier, I decided to mulch around things that were hard to mow around.  15 bags of mulch later, I am sure hoping that it does indeed make the mowing easier.

And here are these cute new gloves....that I didn't wear.

Fingernails won't be the same for some time. 

I just don't like to wear them, but I should.  Got one 

sliced finger from some tough grass I was 

trying to pull.  ouch.

The shed, aka, practice house, we built 3 

summers ago...with a lovely skirt of mulch.

The Orchard.

With mulch and a bottle of really stinky stuff

to keep the deer from eating the leaves...

which they did the first night we put the 

new tree (in the middle) out there.

And last, but not least, my new yard art!

An older gentleman on the way out to La Ti Da 

makes these and has them all over his yard.

I just needed one.  Bet my neighbors are glad!  

Everyone needs a little whimsy, right?