Mom's house days 2 and 3

Well, one side, the north side, of the house is painted, two coats. Yesterday Mom "helped" and today sister Cindy helped. Cindy is a good helper. She and I work well together. It is very harmonic when the two of us are on a project. We enjoy each others company and usually something will make us laugh so hard we can't breathe and tears roll down.

Here are some pics of the "before".

Can you see how badly the paint is peeling? And the junk all around that mom thinks is vital to her existence?





In the photo below, there is the once magnificent burning bush tree that is now all but dead. I want to cut it down, Cindy agrees. But mom says the birds love it, she calls it her bird sanctuary and refuses to let us take it out. True, the birds love it. But below it is the result of having the birds there. Lots of weeds including poison ivy. Hard to maintain and deal with. Once upon a time in the shade beneath this tree was a number of beautiful hosta. Now even the hosta are suffering and I'd like to dig them up and relocate them. To be continued.....





Below is herself, with Taffy.

This is me with Taffy. I call her Taffy Apple. Oh, and in the background at the corner of the house is what is left of the forsythia.


Yep, I still have some beefy thighs.


Cindy helping.
Now, below is a before picture. That dark place is the forsythia. I may have already done some work on it, and the photo doesn't show how big and nasty that thing was.




Anyway, I'd intended to do the back first, but it is just too hot in the sun to work there, all the scraping and sanding that will be needed. I'll save that for cooler and/or cloudy days. There is plenty of work to do. Including the landscaping.

As far as 6WBM, I've been good in the early part of the day following it. But then things fall apart late in the day. Mainly because I haven't planned in advance what I intend to eat and got the groceries into the house.

June 1 I intend to do what I said back in January....do the hard work. Even if I'm tired, etc. I went to the pool today for an hour. I could write my grocery list at the pool, do my shopping on the way home (who cares if I'm wet) and stick to the plan rigorously. I have one more day to slide. The June 1 it's P90X and 6WBM for 90 days. Excusing myself for Oregon and Texas.

I still have not called my son. Thought about it today, but didn't do it. Don't know why it is more difficult to pick up the phone and call Ryan when it's very easy to contact Regan. I love that young man.

Anyway, yawn. Back to mom's in the morning. Cindy will be around a couple of hours, so that will be good. Cindy thinks we need to get Kathy's kids over to help. Hmmmmmm.