Productive!

We had the most productive day here this past Friday. It was my last Friday of summer break and I was feeling the need to get some things crossed off my to-do list.

• Trim bushes - We have evergreens and some other bushes in the front of the house that get very long and scraggly in July. Drives me crazy every time I pull in the driveway! Our guy, Jimmy, came Friday and got the job done. Yes!

• Fix oven- Our oven hasn't worked since mid July. The night before I left for the Birthday Club weekend at Clark Lake, I was supposed to make a coffee cake. We had all been assigned things to bring and I was assigned to bring my sour cream coffee cake. Well, that night, I had the batter in the pan and all ready to bake, but the oven wouldn't light. It was too late to call anyone and ask to use their oven, so I was such a problem solver and cooked it on my gas grill! Yes, you can do that. NOt easily, but you can do it. We hadn't missed using the oven with these scorching hot summer days, but it was time to get it looked at. I left a message with an appliance repairman and he called back 20 mins later and said he could come right out. While he was fixing the ignitor on the oven, I asked if he could do anything about our refrigerator door that has had some issues with closing. It's strange but our fridge goes through phases when it will not close properly unless you push on the door really hard in just the right place. Rich diagnosed a problem with "the cam" and we got that fixed, too! Yahoo! It's only been ages that we have dealt with that annoyance. Two appliances fixed! 

• fix peeling paint by front door- Our house needs to be repainted and we had a call in for a guy to come and give us an estimate. In the meantime, the paint around the front door was peeling and being a bit of a "picker", I started chipping away at it, getting huge pieces at a time. For a little while. Then it wasn't coming off. And it looked terrible! Turns out our painter isn't able to do the job yet (he is busy with two other ones right now) and I could not live with the peeling paint. So Jack took a paint chip to his favorite hardware store and got a little can of paint to match and I painted it! Looks so much better than it did and is fine for now!! See for yourself