Our Busy Saturday
Well late yesterday afternoon the UPS man came to pick up the pool, but he was not able to take it because I had it packed up in 3 boxes, not one. I could not find a box large enough to put it all in. Taping all the boxes together was apparently *not* an option.
I was going to have to call and have them reissue tags for the UPS man to come back...another 3-5 days, and then probably 2 weeks before the new pool would make it to us. I reminded the customer service representative that we wanted to swim in the pool this summer, not skate on it in the winter ;-)
So I called around and found a Walmart that had one in stock, only it was an hour away from us. So at 9:00 I packed everyone in the van and off we went. The things I won't do for my children's happiness LOL.
From there we went to Home Depot and I returned a defective rug I had bought two weeks ago and bought some more grout sealer so I can put another coat on our new slate floor. I brought the kids through the McDonald's drive thru and then we stopped at the garden store.
I bought two flats of red and white petunias to put into our 4 flower boxes on the porch, and 6 large potted pink and white petunias for pots on the front porch steps. Also bought way more potting soil than I needed, it is so hard to judge how much you need.
When we came home my younger children "helped" me plant the flower boxes. I tend to be a perfectionist about this sort of thing and it is very difficult for me to watch them plant the flowers LOL. But I try to remember that the process is what is important, not the final outcome. If they kill them all I can always buy more flowers :-)
Then we dragged all the wicker furniture off the front porch and freshened them up with a new coat of paint. I got out the leaf blower and blew all the "extra" potting soil off the porch and driveway. The children had fun riding their bikes around me while I pretended I was a hurricane trying to blow them off their bikes. LOL
Another fun day at the big yellow house.
I was going to have to call and have them reissue tags for the UPS man to come back...another 3-5 days, and then probably 2 weeks before the new pool would make it to us. I reminded the customer service representative that we wanted to swim in the pool this summer, not skate on it in the winter ;-)
So I called around and found a Walmart that had one in stock, only it was an hour away from us. So at 9:00 I packed everyone in the van and off we went. The things I won't do for my children's happiness LOL.
From there we went to Home Depot and I returned a defective rug I had bought two weeks ago and bought some more grout sealer so I can put another coat on our new slate floor. I brought the kids through the McDonald's drive thru and then we stopped at the garden store.
I bought two flats of red and white petunias to put into our 4 flower boxes on the porch, and 6 large potted pink and white petunias for pots on the front porch steps. Also bought way more potting soil than I needed, it is so hard to judge how much you need.
When we came home my younger children "helped" me plant the flower boxes. I tend to be a perfectionist about this sort of thing and it is very difficult for me to watch them plant the flowers LOL. But I try to remember that the process is what is important, not the final outcome. If they kill them all I can always buy more flowers :-)
Then we dragged all the wicker furniture off the front porch and freshened them up with a new coat of paint. I got out the leaf blower and blew all the "extra" potting soil off the porch and driveway. The children had fun riding their bikes around me while I pretended I was a hurricane trying to blow them off their bikes. LOL
Another fun day at the big yellow house.
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