Ok, so it’s been a few days since I have been posting here.  Ok, so it’s been a few months.  Alright! Several months.  I’m so lame, but in my defense, I have racked up a lot of happenings in 2018!  The best happenings…..drum roll….. two new grand babies!  Harper Lee and Wyatt Lane have entered the clan and “Granny” couldn’t be more proud!

Before I get all into my baby presentation I thought I should keep sort of a timeline going here.  Sooo,  did Randy complete his barn project?  Did I get my bathroom metamorphesized? Well, lets just say that I think I am a little closer to that checkered flag.  Of course that would not have been possible without the help of my dear husband.  Just a little trim around the tub/shower and a little caulking around the tile and we can call it good.  The barn needs its electrical wires connected to the outlets and some gravel on its floor.  I’m going to press for the finish line this weekend and hopefully emerge the victor.

The barn’s purpose is to house the manly stuff, you know, like the mighty swathing machine (otherwise known as a zero turn lawn mower), a garden slaying tiller, the killer Kawasaki KDX and of course the all terrain four wheeler family fleet.  I felt very special to have a small corner for my few garden implements and wheel barrow. So putting aside this building’s functionality looking at it on the outside…this barn is so cute!  How could this little cupcake be looked upon as manly??

And look, my garden is just right there handy!

 

Surely it wouldn’t take an act of (let’s not use the word Congress right now) legislation to fashion a wooden platform under there, yes, there where that silver truck is, for a planting station, sink, the possibilities are endless!  Cute chairs to admire the garden, a few wind chimes, and maybe even a ceiling fan!  And after I convince Randy of the value this would create for our property he might just decide right then and there to call the barn company back to come and erect another one that’s not as cute and away from the garden that could hold all his stuff.  I amaze myself sometimes.

Uh hum…reality check.  Ok, back to my real world.

The “Golden Girls” bathroom, if I do say so myself, is looking pretty cute itself.

 

There is one thing that Randy and I are in complete agreement on; the man barn project was much, much, much less painful for us.

Our house was built in 1976 when folks were living the dream if they were fortunate enough to have wood paneling throughout their entire house.  They were especially popular in neighborhoods if they had gaudy wallpaper stuck to some of that wood paneling and hung in their bathroom.  Yep, you guessed it and to make things even more interesting the sheet rock behind these hideous looking walls (we got lucky here, the wild printed wallpaper had been painted over with a lovely tan 🙄) looked like it had been ripped out of another unfortunate bathroom and flung up in ours to save money.

Needless to say the bathroom journey was long and indeed painful.  But we stayed married, that’s the good news.