For those of you who know us personally you know that we finally sold the house and bought a new one. For those of you who do not? Well, now you know.

It’s been a busy time with all the moving, handling details and etc. In fact it’s had me tied up for a while. We’re finally set however and have cleaned out the other house.

So now begins the ultimate weekend warrior quest. One in which will take us years to complete. But onward we trudge nonetheless.

Since we’ve been busy with moving stuff from one house to the other we have not had the time to do any serious work. We have however had the time to do basic things around the house.

One of the things we have been able to do in between moving was getting the lights up. We decided on an oiled bronze look of material and wanted to keep the lights fairly airy looking and not too bulky.

For the most part the lights were easy to put up with the exception of the kitchen. It was a chore if only because who ever put the old light up installed the electrical box… upside down..

I don’t know why they did this, but to fix it I had to bust it out, cracking chunks of plaster out from around it. It left a huge hole, which I filled with layers of fiberglass tape, and latex modified spackle. It took a bit to build up but it’s nice and smooth now.

I didn’t have to go through all that work though, since the light in the kitchen covers a huge area beyond the repair. But I don’t like to do things half way. The way I feel about it, it’s better to do it right the first time and not have to ever worry about it down the road.

Beyond the lights, I have been cleaning up the yard whenever possible, decimating the grown up weeds, trees and what ever else seems out of place or in the way.

Since it was part of the sales contract on the old home that we were to keep all our day lilies we need several places to put them on the new property. On the bright side, the property is so large we have plenty of room.. On the down side, we’ve got a lot of lilies.

This bed was done along the side of the walkway leading to the front door. Because it’s at the front of the house we wanted it to have a more formal feel, if even the lilies themselves are not a formal flower.

We also changed out the pole light at the front. It was a plain old aluminum pole with a busted up light at the top. I ended up cutting the pipe down to size and poring a 3” concrete base around it. Because the pipe is already buried in the ground I didn’t bother making the concrete base too large, nor did I worry about casting in anchor bolts. I just drilled it out and used 2 ½” anchors that expand in the drilled holes.

Now… To figure out where the heck to put the rest of these lilies… Hmmm..