THAT Bush!

We love our home, we love our yard, but we HATE that  %^#$@  bush!

We have a shrub on the right side of our front yard that is just a beast, plain and simple.  We have tried since we moved in to tame the monster, but it fights back every time.

Well, this weekend, we won, sort of...  for now anyway...

Yes that is my dear hubby standing IN the shrub with giant cutters, hacking away.

Looks thrilled, doesn't he?

But 10 huge trash bags later, and he managed to cut that sucker down to about 1/2 the height.  Now you might think that was drastic and could kill the beast, but you would be wrong.  Nothing, and I do mean nothing, we do to this thing, can kill it.   By the fall, my warrior will have to take on the beast yet again!

Joys of home ownership

So two days before Thanksgiving, yes Thanksgiving, our over-the-stove microwave died.  Great timing huh?  Pat researched and researched, as his analytical, engineering brain is known to do, on what we should do....  repair, view ratings on new microwaves, replace??? 
Finally he made a decision, and we ordered the new microwave, but then came the fun part.  How the heck do you install one of these things?
Well, first you move the stove out of the way (and begin the scrubdown of a lifetime!  Just think what crud can collect between the side of the stove and the counter! And we are clean people!!), then you remove the old, broken microwave and marvel at how your kitchen can fit all these appliances!

Then you set the hubby loose with the biggest A** power drill bit I have ever seen!!

You install the new microwave and note hubby's excellent work!

And then you let the kiddo have the box!!

Ta Da!!  New microwave!!