weekend pressure washing
Jun. 30th, 2008 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyWhen we bought this house, it was in the process of being taken back by mother nature. Trees and vines and algae and even the flowers moved out from where they were supposed to be. We've been doing a lot of work this year, and M finally won me over to buying a pressure washer. Did you know that pressure washers are the coolest things ever invented? It's true! They are awesome. M has worked his cute tail off this weekend, cleaning the outside of the house. I am hard pressed to even tell you what the biggest improvement was because ALL of it looks so much better. It took off the vine residue that was all over two sides, the black staining from the vines, the algae growing on the wall in the back, the dark gray color of the back patio, and yes, it even took the paint off the shutters and trim. Okay, that last part is not so good but we have to do a second coat on the porch railings anyway so we can just touch up paint then. A brief cost-benefit analysis showed that it was in our best interest to clean it rather than save the paint. The house looks so much crisper. It's a weird wording but it's all I can think of. We have been bad with the before/after pictures lately but here are a couple I took while M was working on the back patio.
So that was pretty awesome. This is the first year it feels like we're making progress on the outside. We were too focused on the inside on the first year, and on babyshmoo the second.
Speaking of babyshmoo, I am happy to report that she is now actually eating stuff! She has been markedly uninterested in food until say, Thursday. Now she wants crak-kuhs at all times. She even requested crak-kuhs instead of milk just after her nap yesterday, which was shocking. She has always treated food as a pleasant diversion, but it didn't count as something to fill her belly with. Only milk does that. ;) Crak-kuhs, by the way, refer not only to crackers but to any and all dry foods that we offer her (fruit puffs, cheerios, crackers, etc). Everything but cheese, basically, which she will say upon occasion but mainly she signs.
Oob. It's past midnight. Dorko baby refused to sleep (again) until after eleven so I am running late this evening. It's past bedtime now, though, so I will have to save the scintillating discussion about the price of cheese for another time. Too bad!
So that was pretty awesome. This is the first year it feels like we're making progress on the outside. We were too focused on the inside on the first year, and on babyshmoo the second.
Speaking of babyshmoo, I am happy to report that she is now actually eating stuff! She has been markedly uninterested in food until say, Thursday. Now she wants crak-kuhs at all times. She even requested crak-kuhs instead of milk just after her nap yesterday, which was shocking. She has always treated food as a pleasant diversion, but it didn't count as something to fill her belly with. Only milk does that. ;) Crak-kuhs, by the way, refer not only to crackers but to any and all dry foods that we offer her (fruit puffs, cheerios, crackers, etc). Everything but cheese, basically, which she will say upon occasion but mainly she signs.
Oob. It's past midnight. Dorko baby refused to sleep (again) until after eleven so I am running late this evening. It's past bedtime now, though, so I will have to save the scintillating discussion about the price of cheese for another time. Too bad!
