Jim Goings

My three oldest girls are sick today.  They came back from a sleepover and starting throwing up.  They can’t even keep a little water down.  Poor things.  They’ll probably hate me when their older for taking pics of them when they were sick, but why not remember moments when mommy and daddy waited on you hand and foot all day?

Hannah resting in the living room

Miriam resting in the living room

Simone in our bed after a shower to clean up after an accident.  My poor baby. She’s still so cute though!

In the showdown of all showdowns, we took on our back yard and kicked it’s butt!   I hired Mark to come over and help us.   First up was a trip to the dump where we unloaded a van full of crap we had sitting around in the yard.  Then, Mark ran the rototiller most of the day while I trimmed the trees – all 4 of them.  Mark ended up tilling about half of the yard which is awesome.  We placed some edging and moved some of the rocks into the border areas.  Of course, the rocks were from the other half of the yard where we dug them up a few weeks ago.  They were all muddy, so we spend about 2 hours washing rocks.  Yes, we washed rocks.  The results are great, but we have a long way to go.

Mark finishing up the tilling.  Now we have a mostly level yard ready for sod!

We covered the tilled earth with plastic to prevent anything from growing.  In a few weeks we’ll plant sod.

I cut down the tree what was growing in the middle of the two pine trees shown here.  I also pruned the weird tree you can just see on the far right.

If you look towards the house, you can see a huge pile of limbs and leaves from the maple tree sitting in front of the window.  The foreground shows some of the trimmings from the other trees.

For those of you that haven’t seen my dorky office at work, check it out.  Points if you can identify the 3 sci-fi shows that are represented.

I took this pic a couple of weeks ago and forgot to post it.  It’s just too good to not immortalize here on my blog.  I present – the green cruiser.   T-top, gold wheels, chain steering wheel, beige leather interior.  Word to yo motha!