Our weekend: Planned vs. actual

Our project plans for the weekend:

• Buy baseboard moulding
• Paint moulding
• Install moulding
• Build mirror frame
• Install front door moulding
• Build a bookcase

What we actually did this weekend:

• Added a bathroom renovation to the priority list after giving our muddy dog a bath in the small, slippery tub
• Read multiple books about bathroom renovations while drinking chai
• Three trips to Lowes (finally bought moulding and trim paint)
• Took advantage of the 70 degree sunny weather to go hiking with Rogan (the dog, who now needs another bath)
• Started painting the moulding
• Cleaned the puppy-mudprints from the floor
• Took down the Christmas lights
  
• Moved the dining room table into the dining room
• Ate a superb dinner at the dining room table (first meal not on the couch or outdoor patio table!)

After being housebound for the past week during the Austin Ice Storm '07, we really had to get out of the house this weekend and enjoy the good weather. Now that we're stocked up with all of the supplies we need, we should be able to get the rest of the planned list knocked out over the next week. Or two.

In other news, our backyard basically flooded this past week.


We had water within an inch of our french door sill. Steve spent an hour in the freezing rain unearthing cinder block pavers in an effort to construct a small-scale Panama Canal for the water to flow around the house.

We quickly discovered that the backyard was previously a large patio that was covered by topsoil and seeded with grass. I see a French drain in our future. Anyone have any suggestions?

Our neighbor is working on a few outdoor projects and is researching privacy fences. She's interested in a corrugated metal fence with cedar posts. We took a drive through town to see a house that has the fencing she described. We liked what we saw and hope to post some photos as an example soon.

That's it for this weekend. The dog is already asleep and we're not far behind.