Springing Back to Life
Our patio has gone through many iterations over the past 29 years. When we first moved in, we were poor. Our budget was tight so we had to be content with the grass and shadowbox fences with the neighbors. We knew we always wanted a patio and saved up for it. I want to say we paid $1200 for a paver patio. We picked out the huge 18"x18" slate look pavers from Lowe's and got a patio set that was an ambitious size. It was nice to have a space to relax outside and have a little flower bed where our pooch would happily walk up to smell the flowers. After a year or two of constantly having people catch our eye as they walked their dogs or themselves, we said it was time for a fence with a gate. I think it was around $700 back then. Damn those prices make me nostalgic! Over the years, we had various outdoor area rugs, curtains on the fences to cover gaps, tropical hibiscus trees during our Hawaii years to remind us of our second home. ...
Kicking Ass: That's my plan!!
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Merry Christmas and HAPPY NEW YEAR and CONGRATS on reaching 200 POUNDS gone forever! What an amazing achievement. Your tenacity and commitment is something I've never seen before and a constant reminder to me that ANYTHING is possible. Step by step and day by day. (And now I have the theme to Step-by-step stuck in my head. Damn.) Thank you for putting it all out there and being so honest and vulnerable and willing to do it because I know you help people - you've helped me. Much love to you and the Mr. and here's to an AMAZING 2012!
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Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! We spent the evening with a movie marathon with the girls and were in bed by 10:30! We're old... :-)
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