After lunch, we returned outside for less pleasurable activities. Dave intended to caulk around the windows, but got sidetracked when a red Explorer pulled into our driveway. Our street just makes a loop and you end up almost where you started from, so we don't get many passers-by. Turned out Dave's cousin, Eric, and a couple of friends had been eating in a nearby restaurant (Litton's, yum!) and decided to try to find our house based on the information we had given at Christmas. This consisted of two facts:1) Go left onto Cedar at the light right after you pull onto Broadway from Litton's.
2) At the next light, go right and head up the hill. We live near the top of the hill.
We didn't specify a street or house number. If we hadn't been outside, he would have missed the house. But we were, and he didn't. So, we got to show off our house and meet his friends. It was a nice distraction from (the yet-to-be-started) work.
After they left, Dave changed his mind and decided to chop up the branches he had pruned from the front bushes. I decided to try raking. It's a little embarrassing to see that the 85-year-old lady across the street has approximately 3 leaves in her yard and ours has somewhere around 3 million! (And she does the yard work herself. I've seen her out there raking.) I did less than half the yard before giving up.
The frustrating part is it hardly looks as if you did any work at all. I know I did, though, because I ended up with a big leaf pile:
Knoxville has these big orange trucks that come around once a week and suck up the leafs through a giant vacuum hose into the cage at the back. Saves us a lot of time and energy.Echo spent the afternoon chewing on sticks and eating rabbit poo. I'm hoping that's why she urped a little this morning. We'll keep her inside today and tomorrow and on a strict diet and see how she does.
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