I have finally recovered from the 2008 school year. I now have enough energy to get out into our long neglected house yard and give it some tender loving care.
As you can see from the photo the front fence now has all its pickets back in place. I'd like to give it a coat of paint before school starts again.
The lawn, though still looking like a war zone, is starting to respond to my rehabilitation efforts. The dead crisp grass is being replaced by green shoots. We had a tree and a shrub removed last year. So there are still craters that need filling in. In fact, the whole area needs to be re-leveled.
It now feels better to walk out the front door. There is life. There is hope. :)
The rest of the property is also beginning to look like the owners live here (which we do) rather than the neglected rental property that it was looking like by the end of 2008.
This year (2009), as I keep saying to myself, I want to have a more balanced life. I want a life that has room for healthy things like spending time working outside in the yard.
We'll see. Teaching is an all consuming vocation. Will I have the maturity to say "No, enough is enough"?
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