Busy Weekend

We took advantage of the long weekend and some beautiful weather to get a few projects done around the house. First, a long awaited redo of our entry landing floor. We just put down new linoleum tile, but for some reason it took us a really long time between buying the tiles and actually doing it. Here is the original floor with the new tile laid out on it so we could plan. It was in good shape, but neither of us liked the color.

And the new floor! Really happy with how it turned out.

We also bought and planted an apple tree.

We did buy one last year but it did not make it. We read up on care and feeding over the winter, so we hope to keep this one alive! We shall see how that goes.

We also started redoing a big landscape wall/planting bed at the front of the house. It has been slowly falling apart since before we bought the place, so it’s been on the to-do list for a while. However, it is a big project and is going to involve moving a lot of dirt and stone before we are done. So no pics of that yet.

But we also got to relax some. We finally got to use our firepit, which we got last year and then just never used for some reason. It was nice to just relax outside and enjoy the fire 🙂

Hope everyone in the US had a good Memorial Day weekend, and everyone else had a very nice regular weekend!



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