Absentee blogging

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very motivated blogger. I began this thing to track our progress as we delve into home ownership and remodeling (as well as to give our family and friends who live farther away a peek into our home and what we've been doing with our free time), but I'm just not feeling motivated.

Our kitchen is half-painted. Am I going to go home and change into painting clothes and slop another coat on it so I can move on to taping off and painting the bathroom? Nope. I'll probably collapse on the couch with Scott and the dogs before dragging myself to the kitchen to see what I'll be throwing together for dinner. Our garage is still a pile of boxes and garbage leftover from the move and our new washer and dryer (Oh, yes, I got those. Did I blog about it? Nope! Not motivated, see?), but we won't be tackling them anytime soon. Our back gutters are off the house in the yard and neither of us has mustered the energy to trek the 5 or 10 blocks to Lowes to buy wood to make a fascia board.

It's not that we don't want to complete these (admittedly tiny) projects, but its more a fact of the more we do, the more we see that needs to be done. We need to re-seed our backyard since the crew that replaced our old septic tank dug up all the grass, but before we do that, we need to level it out, remove all the rocks (which there are about a billion--no lie), completely flatten it out and then put grass seed down. Which then brings up the questions of: Do we remove the two trees before or after we re-seed? and, where will the dogs go to the bathroom outside since our front yard isn't fenced?

It truly does seem like our "To-do" list is teetering over to never-ending, but I suppose that's why we bought a house. So we could have a list of things we want to do to make our house our own. Keeping this in the back of our heads just might kick-start us to start building my planter boxes for the vegetable garden I've been meaning to plant, or to clean out the spare room which has become a collector of things we don't know where else to put. And maybe, just maybe, I'll finish painting the kitchen tonight.

But don't hold your breath, that couch is looking mighty comfortable.

Bathtub woes

My bathtub doesn't hold water.

The only thing worse about this discovery is discovering it while in the bathtub after a particularly cold and stormy day.

Adding another 'honey-do' to our list...