An Accomplished Weekend

I accomplished a lot this weekend and I am pretty happy about it. I cleaned the house, did the laundry, finished the book Marley & Me, trained the puppies to stay off the bed (two nights in a row with no problems) and we painted the retaining wall in the backyard to match the house. That was the biggest accomplishment. It was a task that we have been putting off since last May. Since we live on the side of a mountain our backyard slopes so we had landscapers come in and put in a retaining wall in our backyard to level out the yard, plus it acts as a supporting wall for the pool. Anyway, the landscapers finished the wall and the yard and all we had to do was paint the wall. This was to cut the cost. We had purchased the paint last May and figured we would do it right away; however, it’s such a task that is far from fun so it only took us 10 months to finally do it. It was a beautiful 70 degrees on Saturday so it was a perfect day to do this. We locked the puppies in the house so we could begin. We were only at it for about ten minutes when we realized this was a bad idea and we should have just paid the landscapers extra to paint the wall. The stucco on the wall made it more difficult to paint. Andy suggested we should buy a spray painter so I went online and found out they are a minimum of $150 so after we discussed it we decided that it’s not worth it just for a one time deal. So, we sucked it up and got to work. Only a few hours and two aching backs later were we done. Once the paint was dry we let the puppies lose thinking it was safe. However, we made sure the wall was dry, but we didn’t think about the spots where I dripped paint on the grass. We realized this about an hour later when Izzy came running in the house with dried paint on her cheek and behind her ear. It was pretty funny. I am happy that I got a lot done this weekend and I am ready for next weekend.