May in Review
-Lots of good times swimming and cooking out with friends, Bike the Bricks in McKinney (food trucks!), and Dallas Symphony Orchestra+fireworks at the Farmers Branch Libertyfest for Memorial Day
-Took my sweet school trivia team to the big super quiz - they rocked the 1910s
-A quick campout at Dinosaur Valley State Park - 8 adults, 6 kids, and hiking fun
-Finished planning a four corners road trip for summer vacation: we're headed west to 7 national parks in Colorado+Utah+Arizona+New Mexico
-Took my sweet school trivia team to the big super quiz - they rocked the 1910s
-A quick campout at Dinosaur Valley State Park - 8 adults, 6 kids, and hiking fun
-Finished planning a four corners road trip for summer vacation: we're headed west to 7 national parks in Colorado+Utah+Arizona+New Mexico
-Matt finished his first year as a full time professor, and started his summer break - full time dissertating and working on the house
-Finished the Junior League year attending leadership retreat at the Westin Stonebriar, celebrating my provisional group's promotion to active status, and volunteering at the Plano Family Literacy Center graduation - a great night!
Around Downtown Challenge
No new spots but repeat trips to Spoons, Churchill's, and Patina Green (gotta have Matt's favorite artisan pickles)
Around the House
-Cleaned the spa, and figured out how to use it properly-woo hoo!
-Added 4 Mexican heathers to fence baskets and asparagus fern to last deck pot
-Bought new pot for a katherine fern
-Re-weeded front and side beds for remaining ivy (4 bags and counting)
-Weeded/cleaned gravel area next to garage, removed twigs, briar/ivy, and weeds and started leveling gravel
-Planted two wax myrtles for privacy screen in side yard by the front metal fence
-Landscaping the last backyard area: added stone path and 23 liriope grasses bordering the bed and deck, a gardenia, white hydrangea, blue potato bush and 3 japanese mockorange bushes to hide pool equipment, 35 bags of mulch, 19 new stones plus some already on the property
-Bought/assembled wrought iron patio table and 4 chairs
-Painted upstairs office walls Crisp Linen White, replaced orange-painted switches/outlets with new white ones
-Cleaned outside windows
-Had the indoors and outdoors professionally treated for insects
-Reorganized kitchen cabinets, pantry, and laundry closet
-Added a new outdoor bench made by my dad, moved old bench to the garage
No new spots but repeat trips to Spoons, Churchill's, and Patina Green (gotta have Matt's favorite artisan pickles)
Around the House
-Cleaned the spa, and figured out how to use it properly-woo hoo!
-Added 4 Mexican heathers to fence baskets and asparagus fern to last deck pot
-Bought new pot for a katherine fern
-Re-weeded front and side beds for remaining ivy (4 bags and counting)
-Weeded/cleaned gravel area next to garage, removed twigs, briar/ivy, and weeds and started leveling gravel
-Planted two wax myrtles for privacy screen in side yard by the front metal fence
-Landscaping the last backyard area: added stone path and 23 liriope grasses bordering the bed and deck, a gardenia, white hydrangea, blue potato bush and 3 japanese mockorange bushes to hide pool equipment, 35 bags of mulch, 19 new stones plus some already on the property
-Bought/assembled wrought iron patio table and 4 chairs
-Painted upstairs office walls Crisp Linen White, replaced orange-painted switches/outlets with new white ones
-Cleaned outside windows
-Had the indoors and outdoors professionally treated for insects
-Reorganized kitchen cabinets, pantry, and laundry closet
-Added a new outdoor bench made by my dad, moved old bench to the garage