Disheartening Day

We have had a busy couple of days. Yesterday started with an early-morning text from Lindsay telling us that snow was falling in Green Bay.  While I am glad that we are not putting up with the cold weather, we see so much work down here that we want to do (with no money to do it), that we are not having much fun here either.

For over a year now, we have smelled a slightly musty smell when we opened the center doors on the vanity in the main bathroom.  Rick took the vanity top off and together we flipped the vanity over.  The bottoms of the vanity sides were never sealed, and after we had a slight flood in the bathroom last year, the water seeped up into the vanity.  The smell emanated from that area. Rick sealed the boards with two coats of Kills, so hopefully once the Kills smell dissipates, we will have a fresh bathroom again.  We are happy that we do not have to do any major repairs on that room this year.  We have neither the inclination or the budget to do so.

The upside down vanity rests as the second coat of
Kills dries before we reassemble the bathroom.

Yesterday also was a momentous day because I called our pest control agency and told them that their services were no longer needed.  I am totally done with having them rip us off each year.  Rick sprayed around the house with a bug spray that is equally as good as their spray, and he probably did a more thorough job than they would have done.

In the afternoon, we went to a neighborhood estate sale.  Apparently, the people who own the house are moving permanently back to New York, so they are selling most of what is in the house.  We bought a small rug for Owen so he can drive his cars on it.  The rug is from the movie Cars 2.  I hope he likes it.

Owen will have fun zooming his matchbook cars around
this rug.

Although Rick pumped up our bike tires, we have yet to take a ride.  The weather is still quite warm, so if a person does not ride early in the morning, the opportunity, as far as I am concerned, is gone.

Last night, we started to plan sectioning off a small part of the backyard for a garden.  Nothing but weeds grows under the tree, so maybe I can just add a flowerpot and some stones to keep the area from turning into a mud patch.

For a few hundred dollars, we can turn this into
a small, attractive garden.

Today Rick finished the vanity, and we reassembled the bathroom.  Then we went shopping to try to find some small items for the house.  Most of what we searched for turned into disappointing failures.

One thing we did buy was a tarp that we could put over the hammock so we don't have to haul it in each night.  I would like something that was fairly waterproof and that protects the hammock from tree debris and bird droppings.  As I tried to construct that today, even that did not turn out the way I had imagined.  I give up.  This has been a totally disheartening day.

The only good thing that happened this afternoon was that we received a call from Eden Nursery. They will be here tomorrow morning to plant our new little bottle brush tree in the back yard.  I hope that since I will not have a hand in that, perhaps at least that will go well.