May 1st 2007

My last day off for some time to come. I updated the schedule with May information so Mom you can track it on Google. I am still at AdvantaCare four days a week and starting to work at Watsonville Hospital two days a week. It's a lot of work but the extra cash is coming in handy since with all remodel projects little things keep pooping up that are good ideas. This morning when the driveway was fully removed we checked the water pipe from the meter to the house and found that it is very old, rusty and think that before we lay a beautiful Cooblestone driveway we better replace that so I called the plumber. He will give us an estimate in the morning.

Here are some before and after pictures. My family was granted access to a web album of all the pictures on landscaping project. If you want to be added just let me know I will email you an invitation to the Picasa album.

Here is the driveway as of today. On the left the before and on the right today. No more asphalt! The Camilla which was a bush is now a tree. The basketball hoop goes to the dump with the next trip. All of the stumps, and unfortunately the Margareite and the Peruvian Lilly's are gone. The Cobblestone driveway needs to go from a few feet behind my car to the foot of the Camilla tree. The Pink post is what is left of our porch railing and the ending spot of the driveway. The Driveway will be laid by Friday unless the before mentioned plumbing project gets in the way.

OK, this one was not easy to take. After 20 years of mowing, fertilizing and watering this yard its gone in one day. Not that it was a beautiful yard but thats a lot of weekends of work.

The side looks just as desolate right now no grass. The fence is removable and then reinstalled at night for Revel. There has been no work yet to take out the concrete steps and replace the whole are with the new deck I think that will start in about 7 to 10 days. Speaking of schedules the Solar company has us scheduled for next week for installation. One week to install the system then get PGE to OK it and we can turn on the system and by June we are on Solar electricity for about 80% of our usage. Dorothy is got it down to two paint schemes to choose from for the outside of the house. That should happen at the end of the month. I am worried she has not scheduled that yet. Its always something falling through the tracks.

Before I forget I did get a great picture of Gavin off Teddy's computer. Here it is.