Tell about the last thing I got really excited about.
This is an easy one: my birthday! I’m doing a little backyard movie night. It’s gonna be grand. I loooooooove doing backyard movie nights. We just haven’t done a ton of them lately because our front and backyards have kinda been a disaster. But, we’re getting that under control! It’s move night time! I want to do them every summer, in fact. Wouldn’t that be fun? I bought a speaker system for it a couple years back, and a screen, too. Projector. I bought a cool retro Coco-Cola ice chest, even though it’s out of stock for a while I guess, so probably can’t use it this time around, but its one of those coolers on wheels, kinda looks like it could hold ice cream or something…it’s dope. I love it. Can’t wait for it to come in. Our friends have popcorn maker and maybe I want to get one of those. We’ll see.
It was HOT today my god. Humid and hot. And then it STAYED hot. It didn’t get any cooler at night. We walked the dogs and it was 93 still. Got up to 101.
Woke up early, though, and went and got the 4x4s we needed for the parking space. Got those, took the rental van back, and then walked the pups before screwing them all together. That shit is straight as FUCK. Realized I do have a little more work to do with my wheel barrow and shovel. I need to back fill in where I dug the hole larger than the actual wood boundary of the parking space. Back fill and compact it so it’s all nice and tight. But, ya: gravel is next. Spread it out, compact it, put the nice gravel on top, bingo bongo, Ira has himself a solid, legit parking space in the front yard. Only took me…five months to make? I did also write a novel in that time, but still. Whew. That’s a long time. But it’s going to be done, and that’s all that matters.
It’s such a mental lift to do projects like that. Physical, for sure, but for me it’s the emotional and intellectual lift. The energy I’m going to have to muster, all the steps to figure out. Whew. It’s a lot. Especially when I’m doing something I haven’t done before. But we’re close! What I really can’t wait for is hiring somebody to come and clear everything away so the front yard is a blank canvas again. THAT is going to be amazing. I cannot waaaaiiitttt for that. We’re not going to look like a disaster. Just like that. All of that is happening this coming week. Got to. Whew. It’ll be such a lift.
Anyway…after that, I didn’t do much. I was wiped. Like I said: this kind of stuff takes it out of me. But we’re resilient. We don’t give up. We keep at it.
Night night.