Alan Hood

 This past week has been very exciting around the house.  Lisa was in Austin so I decided to do a few things around the house to make her happy, and just because they really needed to get done.  First I got my friends Gordon and Brian to help me get all of the dirt from digging the pool out of the back yard.  Believe me that was a huge job.  That was such a big job that three days later my back is still killing me, but that’s life right.  The most exciting thing is that we have a concrete company coming this week to pour 27 yards of concrete in the back yard; I know that sounds like a lot of concrete but it is just the area around the pool up to the front fence.  It still leaves plenty of yard for the dogs to take care of business and run around.  The most important thing is that for the first time since we moved into this house and I started ripping up the back yard it is finally going to be about 90% finished.

Just to give you an idea of what all has been done, in the back yard alone I have taken out 8 large trees, and countless small bushes including ivy, bougainvillea, bamboo, and lots of little bushy things.  This yard was a jungle when we moved in and I knew it was going to be a huge job to get it where I wanted it to be, but I have to say that the final results are exactly what I wanted.  The pool is great, know that it is finally vacuumed out, and with concrete around it, I think it will be a real pleasure for many years to come.  Now if I can just get Gordon to finish the projects he started in December inside the house then life will be almost normal again.  Not that life in this house is anywhere close to normal.