It is Monday and I am happy to say that I am on vacation all week long! I have been dreaming about our time off for weeks! It is a staycation…we aren’t going anywhere. But we do have a few things planned!
The Shed
Last year for our vacation we opted to stay home to tear down a lean-to addition on our shed and rebuild it. It was a a busy week as we tore it down and rebuilt. We had a fire going in our fire pit going the whole vacation and the old shed was burned one piece at a time that week. The week ended and the shed was still incomplete. Slowly it got completed…kinda (very slowly since Jason got injured shortly after vacation…you can read about that here. Luckily Jason’s dad helped us with getting it done!). The shed has been in a state of being under roof but the new section was still bare wood and the old section was painted who knows when and it was obviously in need of fresh paint). So when we decided that a go away vacation was not in the financial cards for us this year we decided to paint that shed! Here is some pics of before we painted.
The pics make it look small. It’s not huge but bigger than it looks. The leanto (bottom picture) is 20x10. The main part is 25x12. With an overhang in the front. The area under the over hang is an additional 25x12 (Jason says it would be prefect for an alpaca…hahahah)
It is Monday and we have now completed two full days of painting. It looks so good! We chose green…and it will be trimmed in white. (Stay tuned for completed pictures)
After painting all day today, I’m so tired!
Fun staycation stuff
Our vacation is not all work though! We are trying and hoping to do a work day and then a relax fun day. Back and forth. So we worked on the shed on Saturday and on Sunday we headed to Micheaux State Forest (PA state forest) and did a bit of hiking. It was actually shorter than normal. Zoey still gets a bit overexcited with new things and we haven’t been hiking much. So we are keeping our hikes shorter while we ‘break her in. But it was still awesome to get out!
It wore Zoey our! She slept so hard when we got home….with her nose by HER sock. (Our theory is that if we give her old socks that she won’t go after our good ones!)
We have some more short outdoor/hiking trips planned this week. Tomorrow should be Cowans Gap…at least that’s the plan. (We have a few other things to do also…more errand type stuff). Apparently they have drained the lake…and we are nosey and want to see it without water! It should be interesting. The last time we took Zoey there she was too afraid to walk over the bridge that had a grate versus a solid bridge deck. At that time she weighed about 40 pounds and I carried her over the bridge. She is over 100 pounds now….now sure how carrying her would work! Hahaha
Anniversary
Tomorrow will be our second year wedding anniversary. Yes, two years ago we went on vacation and got married. Fun fun!! (Your can read about it here. And that includes a link to my outlive video about it!). We decided to do our annual wedding/anniversary cake again. But decided to keep it within the confines of our weekend sweet treat and have our cake on the weekend before our anniversary. So we have been enjoying our anniversary cake.
Vacation will be over too soon….but I am ready to get myself back on track with getting healthy. I have to focus on my health….I’m not getting younger!!!