Yesterday after a long soccer practice in the sun (it was hot) we decided to clear another check list item off our huge weekend list and went to the movies. We both really wanted to go see Wall-E. The movie looked really good in all the trailers and adverts that gave us the little hint of what this movie would be like.
Overall the movie was pretty good. I think I could have done away with a few of the subliminal messages I gathered from the movie, but overall it was pretty good. I really like the animation like cars, this movie and others.
I would give it a ‘B’ if I was going to grade it.
Today we started our landscaping project. Not really sure what we were thinking since it’s 95 out. However Thursday night we said we were going to do it so here we are. For starters I had soccer practice this morning so I was already in the hot sun for at least 2 hours, more like 2.5 hours. But when I got home, Leslie had already started cleaning up the old dirt and pulling a few weeds that were still alive.
When I got home we decided to get about 1 more hour in on the flower bed before the heat really hit. So we started working on the border stone first. We figured that was what we needed to do. I’m going to show a couple before pictures and a couple current pictures. We stopped after we got the stone border done, cause it was really way to hot out. Plus we wanted to go to the movies in the heat of the day and pick back up later tonight after the heat goes down.
Here is what we have so far:
Before:
Stone Border:
Stone Border:
Last week I enabled a plugin that allowed the Do Follow on links that were put into comments on my posts. I got the idea from a good blogging friend (BioTeck) and since he is a graphics guy he made himself a cool little badge to announce that his blog follows comments. So he was kind enough to make me a similar one with the colors I provided. It’s awesome.. It’s over to your right as your reading this under my entrecard blog of the day.
Also I added another plugin called commentluv. This enables you if you wish to have your last blog post and link show up when you leave a comment on my site. Another idea from Bioteck. And speaking of Bioteck you should check out his blog. He is also creating a massive list of commentluv blogs. So if you are using commentluv on your blog, please stop by his blog and get your name added to the list!
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For those who celebrate it, HAPPY 4TH of JULY…
YEAH…
OK so someone asked me earlier today what I was going to do tomorrow (The 4th) and the rest of the weekend, and at the time I said, I really have no clue, probably nothing.
Well in a matter of hours I had all of Friday planned, and most of Saturday and part of Sunday.
So here is my to-do checklist: (Mostly in Order)
- Workout Friday morning (first time in months)
- Take Mazzie Dog to the dog park
- Go play miniature golf with Leslie’s friends
- Go to Fry’s (Awesome electronic store)
- Go to Lowe’s for landscaping materials
- Go to Dinner with more friends
- Go to another friends house to watch a neighborhood fireworks display
- Soccer Practice
- Horse track to watch live horse racing or Wall-E the Movie
- Landscape front flower bed (lots of work)
- Church
- Possible networking consulting assignment
- Probably more landscaping
Wow that is a PACKED weekend…
Anyone have a crazy schedule like this or something else planned for this weekend?
So tonight after dinner we drove down to Wally World to get 2 things. And when I say 2 things, that doesn’t mean we left with 2 things! ha ha
We have been wanting to do something with our front flower bed ever since we moved into our house and just have never done anything with it. So as we are walking in to the lawn and garden section (I had to get a new sprinkler) we stopped by the plants. After about 10 minutes of going back and forth, we decided this was the weekend, and let’s just get it done.
For starters we already have 5 4.5 holly bushes and we want to keep those. So we ended up with 7 plants, 5 bags of cedar mulch and 6 bags of top soil. Tomorrow afternoon we are going to Lowe’s and buying 23 rock blocks to border the flower bed and then Saturday getting down and dirty, lol.. I’m sure all my blogging friends want to come to North Texas and help us out since it will be like 98 Saturday.
I plan on taking pics throughout this whole process. Not only is this my first MAJOR outdoor project, we both really don’t know what we are doing, lol…..
Pictures to come….
OK so they got to work on the office today. It’s about 1/2 way done. They say we should be able to move into it tomorrow. I will snap some shots of it after we get everything installed and hooked up.
Happy? Yeah for the most part, somethings I wish were different already, but who am I to complain.
Here you go:
I really like the overhead cabinets and shelves..
I have added or maybe I should say that I installed a Do Follow for Comments plugin so all comments will now be followed. I hope this might encourage anyone out there who does read my blog to comment once in awhile.
I have also installed the commentluv plugin which will enable you to have a link to your last blog post show up in your comment if you wish to choose that option.
Things have been nuts at work today and with soccer tryouts this week, I haven’t been all there mentally so hopefully I will find some time later tonight to get some posts moving along and get my drops back on entrecard since I haven’t had much time to spend dropping my cards on other people’s blog..
Well the season starts today.
North Texas Competitive Girls Soccer.
You can hold tryouts at any time from July 1st to the 10th.
So tonight is our first night as a new competitive team. I really don’t think we did enough recruiting or advertising, but we will see what happens.
If no new girls show up then we might have to combine teams and I don’t think the parents really want to do that, but on the flip side I don’t want to lose the team and then they all don’t get to play. Not to mention we have all really worked hard the last 9 months to get ready for today!
So I’m about to leave work and head on out to the field…
Sometimes I think I’m a little obsessive about clouds and storms. I guess after being in Seattle for 32 years and not really having bad storms and then moving to Texas where there are HUGE storms, I get a little carried away. Not to mention I was I was a better photographer.
So the other night the dog and I were sitting around the house (wife was in Oklahoma) and I let Mazzie dog out back and looked up and saw some pretty good storm clouds off in the distance. Like always I ran in and grabbed the camera and snapped a few photo’s of the clouds.
Here are a couple of photos I wanted to share:
Entertainment | tazdog, July 6, 2008 12:23 pm | 
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