The joy of home improvement

I just love being home. As great as all of these trips have been, truly nothing compares to lying down on my own mattress and waking up to turn on my own coffee maker. It is always the small things that make it wonderful. Since I've been home I've been ridiculously productive. Thanks to lots of help and encouragement from the momma, I finally tackled the kitchen cabinets. Unfortunately that project started about three weeks ago (actually 5 months ago if you want to be technical) and there is still no final product to take an cool picture of. But seriously, I will totally finish this weekend and then I'll put up a picture of how cool it looks!

I did however finish sodding my yard last weekend. That was a ridiculous project. The guy at the sod yard said, "it's the most untechnical home improvement project you can do...it's easier than tiling or carpeting". So naturally I think, "oh this will be easy. I'll finish up in the morning and be drinking Boone's Farm on my lawn by noon".

Here's what my lawn looked like after I rototilled 4 cubic yards of shit into it...


And this is my lawn arriving...



Holy crap, I'm an idiot. Never have I done anything so exhausting in my life. (that may be a small exaggeration) It took me about eleven hours to do the whole job. Every muscle in my entire body was in pain that night. I really should have dropped the $250 bucks the sod folks asked for to install the stuff. I'm such a cheap ass.

At this point in the project I still think I'm going to be done by lunch...


But here it is all installed... the sun is actually setting at this point.


Chicken is freaked out by it, she avoids walking on it. She'd still rather lay in the dirt along the edges or on the patio.

Keep your fingers crossed that it won't die on me!!