Our Old House

I go back to work in a few days (already!) and am feeling under pressure to be productive in what little time I have left.  Nevermind an amazing vacation, quality time with B and too many days spent doing absolutely nothing… it feels like crunch time.  It’s too late for me to start the vegetable garden that I had planned, but it’s never too early to get a head-start on next year.  With that in mind, I did some long overdue weeding yesterday (please, don’t judge).

While I was back there, I remembered how much this ugly green shutter really annoyed me… like, what IS your purpose?!  In the middle of my garden/compost site prep, removing this shutter became my new mission. How could I go on, forced to look at that?

Brandon: “Babe, is there any particular reason that you are taking that down, right now?”

Milissa: “Because I don’t like it.  It’s ugly and I want it off!”

Brandon (failing to hide the wonder in his eyes): “Okay”

And… TaDaa!  (If you’ve been following along, I won’t need to tell you what I found)

In fact, if you’re up for a little game, the teacher in me has to ask… How many old windows can YOU count on this back wall??

Space is clear, shutter is gone.  Next step is to keep the weeds from coming back and consult with Meg to get my compost going.