Home Improvements

This weekend we did a couple things to the house to make it a little better. First we finally got rid of the decorative bricks that bordered our back patio. They were such a pain in the butt; I've tripped on them about a thousand times and broken a few by hitting them with the lawn mower. So we pulled them all up and plan on filling the hole with dirt and plant some grass.

We were just going to throw the bricks out, but according to the town's website, they have to be in plastic bins each being no more than 60 pounds. It would've taken forever to get rid of them that way, so I put them up on craigslist for free. It was amazing; about 50 people contacted me wanting the bricks.

Then we decided to put a storm door on the house. There is a straight shot through the house from the front door to the back door, so with a screen door we could get a nice cross breeze. We got the door at Lowes Saturday afternoon and got caught in a torrential rain storm (complete with hail) on the way home with the door on the top of my jeep. This door is said to be the easiest to install and can be done in 60 minutes. It took longer than that, but it was really easy to put in. Everything fit like a glove except the top trim piece. I guess the door hole was just a snitch too short. Nothing I couldn't fix with a mallet, a block of wood and sock.

I going to end up walking right into that door one of these days...