Welcome back, friends! I have been away working with my sweet Mr. Ethereal getting our backyard ready for the new shed’s arrival. It may come as early as this Friday but probably next week sometime. Weather is wrecking havoc on shed deliveries but that has given us time…
Old Shed, the Before
This is how the backyard looked up until this past weekend. I forget when I took this here in the springtime but it was after one of the monster rainstorms!
How it looks now
We are still getting rain about every three or four days or so, but the yard has dried out, which has made the lavenders and the Mediterranean-type plants (rosemary and basil) are much happier with the drier weather. (They sure don’t like wet feet!)
Before taking the shed apart, all of the bicycles, chairs, garden supplies, tools and such were placed all over the patio and yard.
Yoda is excited that he can walk where the old shed was. Here is the new panicle hydrangea beginning its bloom!! It is a lovely hydrangea…
It’s plywood base is leaning up against the back fence now.
Here is when we had most of the shed taken apart. My job was to mark all the inside panels so we can put them back together in right order again, and to hold up the sides as each panel was unscrewed.
I went this weekend and picked up 8′ pressure treated cedar to replace the boards underneath for the old shed. Since it is only 8′ x 8′, we will put it along the side fence to hold the lawn mower, weed eater, edger and the tools which would “leak.” I also picked up two new 4″ x 4″ Around it I’ll put in flowers and make it cute. 🙂
The City did not approve us putting the new shed closer to the side yard (surprise!) but we did get our money back from the application. I have been so upset over this that I still need to resubmit plans for the new shed to go where the old is was. I just haven’t felt like taking up the discussion with the City again. Their rules are ridiculous…
We literally have 25′ of yard that: either “isn’t our own” (10′ easement) yet we take care of it, water it, mow and edge it; and another 15′ that we can’t put a permanent structure on. Apparently that is so they don’t have to pay someone to have something taken down if they decide to take away our side yard when building a wider road.
Honestly, I hate city planners at the moment…
Charles worked really hard moving most of the tools and things out of the shed. I could only do a little at a time because I was still pretty ill with this Post-Covid Syndrome (PCS) virus… However…
Today I am finally feeling better!
Turns out it I am negative for: Covid, strep, flu and Mono. I had a mammogram yesterday and a few lung x-rays last week, so we shall see… Hopefully it is nothing and I’ll just get better over time. This new PCS can occur even as late as 9 months after the illness and it feels like you have Covid again (at least I did). I wondered if it isn’t the body learning to “over-react” to any illness, like a cold.
Well, that’s where we are with the tear-down of the old shed and the new shed still coming! Now we wait. 🙂
Happy summer, friends,
Barb 🙂
Ugh, I am really sorry you are having PCS and that your city planners were such jerks. I thought for sure they’d go along with your plan. That really sucks. You guys take care working in that TX heat, I’m serious.
Thank you, Rita! We took breaks whenever we needed to and thankfully, the humidity was down during those three days. Maybe one was up, but the less humidity really helped so we weren’t overwhelmed with heat and digging in the yard. The new shed is in and I just put up a post for its arrival. Not where I would have liked it, but it’s growing on me. 🙂 Have a great weekend! Hugs, Barb 🙂