The lure of the porch May 15, 2008
This is our house (although this photo was taken before we owned it, and it looks a lot better now - yard spruced up, no junk on porch, etc). As you can see, it has a wonderful wraparound porch, complete with chairs and a porch swing. It’s just made for sitting outside on a nice spring evening.
And our front yard is fenced now, too, so babies and dogs and neighbor children and cousins can all hang out in the yard while adults lounge on the porch.
And after several months of working all the time - ALL THE TIME - on various home renovation projects with every free moment, Jon and I have found ourselves being utter and complete slackers for the last two weeks. As the weather has gotten nicer, all we seem to be capable of doing every evening is sitting out on our porch, drinking wine and enjoying the yard and the kids and good company of neighbors who happen to come by. We’ve even been eating most of our evening meals out on the porch.
It’s been great. We’ve been completely lazy recently.
But as a result, the INTERIOR of our house is, how to put this delicately, completely trashed. I haven’t done any housework in several weeks. And we’ve definitely been taking a break from the next phase of the interior renovations, which we needed after proceeding full steam ahead for months.
But this weekend, I thik we are going to have to tear ourselves away from the front porch for at least one full day to get totally caught up on housework, and to survey what’s next with the upstairs project.
Sigh.
I do love a good porch.
I totally understand the allure of a nice spring evening. I’ve spent every night for the past few weeks either walking through parks, playing frisbee, or watching/practicing baseball with my nephews.
Who wants to stay inside with the natural beauty of springtime calling your name?
It’s gorgeous.
So hey, speaking of home improvements, have you been stimulated?
No, not that, has anyone received their economic stimulus check? If so, I’m very curious as to what you are going to do with it. I have an informal query at my site. Would love to know, just for kicks.
Hello Katie Granju-
I just wanted to make you aware of a breastfeeding story here in my little neck of the woods. So far the response has been mostly compassionate to the young mother who lost her child. The papers are reporting it almost as if breast-feeding is responsible for the baby’s death.
I hope they follow up on it… it’s not as if rural WI needs any negative press about breastfeeding.
It makes me sick that breastfeeding is blamed, and not the exhaustion of the mother…..
http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2008/may/15/baby-died-while-being-breast-fed/