DIY   home improvement   outdoor   landscaping   painting  

Even as a child, it all started with one thing tumbling into disaster.  For example... something as simple as "Clean your room."  And, with the very best intentions of doing that, I would head to my room to clean.  I would pick up a toy and take it to my toy box.  But before I could put away the toy, I needed to remove the books in my toy box because they go on the shelf, so I would put down the toy and take the books to the shelf.  And of course, the books could not just go on the shelf, they needed to be organized... but they didn't all fit.  So I needed to figure out more space for books.  The dresser would work, but to put books there, I needed to remove the nick-knacks.  So where to put the nick-knacks? And on and on and on, until finally my mother would come in a few hours later to find the room twice as messy as when I started.

And that is just about exactly where I am now.  I poured the grill paddy concrete, and then needed to re-set the bricks next to it, but it doesn't make sense to haphazardly wedge in bricks when they all really need re-laid, so I start re-setting bricks row after row, but the grill is sitting on some of those bricks, so I move the grill to the grill paddy, but I can't grill there until the heat-shield is up so I get some cement backer-board and thinset while at the store to get some flashing for the door trim (which also needs done), but I can't put up the backer board to the one side of the privacy fence until I deal with the weather treatment of the panels on the other side because the screws go through the back, so I sand the panels, do test varnish and think it will work, then varnish the whole thing only to find it doesn't work and looks terrible, from a bad sanding job, 

so I need to prepare more panels, but to do that I need to cut down one panel to size, get some more varnish from the store, and coat the panels with three coats of sealer so they won't weather badly again. 

 But before I can take down the old panels and put up the new ones, I should cut and paint the door trim boards while I have the large patio umbrella out for shade while using the varnish...  And in the mean time, I hired a couple local teens to come help pull baby trees up behind the house, and not only need to scrape dirt and lay a few bricks to make a safer path to getting up to the trees, but also spend the whole time the teens are working pulling trees too and using a board, cargo strap, and brick level to pull the larger trees, to set the pace and keep the kiddos on task (goodness I am too old for that!).