Thanks to The Most Interesting Man in the World, I have visited www.creditkarma.com and checked my credit score.  It only checks transunion but I’m happy with what I saw…

My plan is coming together Muhahahaha…

We finally decided to break down and buy some stepping stones to our pool.  There’s no way we want to walk across stones.  We went with a smaller stepping stone called “El Paso” at Home Depot.  We like the smaller ones because the area to the pool doesn’t require large steps to get there so we wanted to maximize the space by using smaller stones.  This will also help when we start putting in the palm trees and possible future Tiki bar in the corner.  Sorry for the image quality, the pics were taken at night.  All the work I’ve done so far has been at night, after I get home.  The grass is on it’s way to growing.  I’ll give it about 4 more days until we should start seeing some sprouts.

As you can see I cleared a path to lay the stones.  Then I dry-laid them to see how it would look and the positioning.  Then I went in and shifted each stone until it was settled evenly on the ground.  Finally, I refilled the rock in and around the stones.  The extra rock was scattered around the area so it didn’t look like you’re stepping into a trench.

Starting my herb garden up again, this time outside during the day and inside during the night.

I’m trying to get them acclimated to become full-time inside herbs in our windowsill.  That way during the summer months they won’t die due to the heat which is exactly what happened with my last ones.  Since the season for growing them is over, I bought some… planted them and am hoping they’ll grow.  The only thing I planted from seed is the parsely.  That takes nothing to grow.  I have found out that’s not nearly as temperamental as the other herbs.

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A decent amount of money was spent this weekend but we saved a ton.  We bought curtains for our room (finally!) so that we can sleep in later and the sun doesn’t wake us up. They look really nice and I’ll have to take a pic to the moblog later.  JCPenny had a sale, we literally saved about 50% on these curtains.  I think just one curtain cost like $40 bucks and we got them for $16…  Of course we had to get the rods too and they were a pain to put up.  The curtains are like a tan and the rods are black.  They go great together.  We met up with Terry and Super G before hand for our traditional lunch meet-up.  We always have the best time.  It’s just so relaxing to sit and talk and catch up like that.  After that they went to Ikea for some things.

Then went to home depot and got some stepping stones for the patio to the pool.  I think we misjudged the space where the stones would lay which is bigger than what was in our minds.  I’m going to have to go back and get the same amount making it 20 stepping stones, 2 columns 10 rows.  I also picked up some herbs which were being grown—the kind you transplant.  I got Basil, Rosemary and Thyme.  Three good ones.  I planted some parsley seeds in the fourth stall of the container I’m planting out of since I know parsley grows real fast and isn’t temperamental to temperatures much.  Although I left them outside in 60 degree temperatures over night I hope that’s okay to do for the rest of them.  One more needed item at the home depot—a door mat.  We got one that we can put out during the summer months.  It says “Welcome: Wipe Your Paws” LOL.

I also was able to finish painting the sides to the bar room/home theater rooms.  Now I just have to concentrate on painting the areas where the wall meets the ceilings.  All in all it was an extremely productive weekend and I even cleaned the house!