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I am so excited for this weekend, and I can sum it all up for you in one word: MULCH! We have been preoccupied since a few weeks before we left for vacation, and haven’t had a free day to pay attention to the outside of our house (let’s be honest, we’ve barely kept up with the inside).

I’m so tired of driving up to my house every day looking at all the things I wish we’d had the time to take care of, but hadn’t. I feel bad for my nice neighbor who’s getting ready to put her house on the market, and whose beautiful black mulch makes ours look a year old (which it is). And I’m so jealous of everyone else’s mulch…I even smell it everywhere I go and it is TAUNTING ME! So this weekend we’re having a big fat yard of mulch delivered (like a cubic yard, not like a whole yard, although our entire yard is not big at all for those of you who haven’t seen it).

I will also indulge in some sort of flowering hanging plant for the front, and probably some other florals to plant in the ground. The backyard will be another story…it will probably take hours to rake up all the leaves we never got last fall, and I’m guessing it’ll be close to 20 lawn bags of refuse. And the saddest thing is there is nothing to reward us underneath…my efforts in growing grass didn’t quite take root (pun intended) and all we will get is nicely raked dirt, but that beats messy old leaves in my book. We’ll finally get the patio furniture out and celebrate Howe style in the backyard

This is becoming a priority for my sanity’s sake; I need to eat dinner on my deck and look out at something that looks more like this instead of the sad wasteland that’s currently outside my sliding glass door. I’ll let you know what kind of progress we make…these are lofty aspirations for one weekend but with close to zero plans ahead of us, I think we can do it.