{"id":783,"date":"2012-07-18T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelorigans.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2012-07-18T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:03:19","slug":"on-the-homefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"On the Homefront"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, it has been a little over 5 years since we moved into our house.\u00a0 When we first bought it, all the rooms were hideous colors and the kitchen was in desperate need of a make over.\u00a0 Well, we took care of the color issue for the most part.\u00a0 We still need to paint the office, but since that will be Jack’s room in a few years, he can pick the color when he moves in.\u00a0 The kitchen is still God awful, but that’s just not in the budget right now.\u00a0 One of the biggest projects I wanted to tackle when we moved in was the front and back yards.\u00a0 In the front yard we basically have a shit load of jasmine bushes and some ugly bushes.\u00a0 Part of the year we have some lilies that bloom.\u00a0 I hate lilies!\u00a0 Well, the other day we were out trimming the ugliest of the ugly bushes.\u00a0 It is the one that happens to be totally blocking the kids window and is taller than our house.\u00a0 Anyways, rather than trimming, I said what the hell and just started cutting it down.\u00a0 I guess that was the jumping off point.\u00a0 We have finally fixed our sprinklers so hopefully our lawn will come back nice and pretty.\u00a0 We will most likely have to throw some seed out there too since our lawns have never actually looked good.\u00a0 The next step will be to take out the dreaded jasmine bushes.\u00a0 Don’t ask me why we decided to do this in the middle of summer when it is God awful hot, but hey, at least it’s getting done!!\u00a0 I think one of the hardest parts is that we only have so much room in our yard waste cans and we don’t really have a way to haul a big load down to the dump so we are just doing a little at a time.\u00a0 Now we just need to decide what do do with all the empty space we will have.\u00a0 It is already nicely edged with some pretty bricks.<\/p>\n

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For the back yard, this will be an even bigger project!!!\u00a0 In the fall when it starts to cool down, we are going to tear down the “sunroom”\u00a0 This is a “room” that the previous owners built by using two carport frames, some tarps, some plywood, and some lattice.\u00a0 Oh, and to keep it from leaking where it is butted up against the house, they used pool noodles.\u00a0 I shit you not.\u00a0 They actually used pool noodles!!!\u00a0 Up until now it has been fine for storage, but it is starting to leak and it has always looked like we were living Arkansas with a guy and a banjo.\u00a0 Soooo, come this fall, it is coming down!!!\u00a0 In its place I will be building 4 raised garden beds.\u00a0 I’m really excited about teaching the kids all about where our food comes from and maybe it will encourage them to actually eat something if they grew it.<\/p>\n

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The backyard is also home to a dead lawn that Lunchbox uses as his shitter.\u00a0 Well, we are thinking of just tilling it all under and putting down some fresh sod.\u00a0 when we moved in the lawn was sort of green, but it was mostly weeds that got mowed down every so often.\u00a0 I’m hoping we can get the dog to take his business elsewhere, but that may be hard.\u00a0 To finish it off back there, I was thinking of doing a playhouse for the kids for Christmas.\u00a0 Shhhhh, don’t tell Pat!!!!<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

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So, it has been a little over 5 years since we moved into our house.\u00a0 When we first bought it, all the rooms were hideous colors and the kitchen was in desperate need of a make over.\u00a0 Well, we took care of the color issue for the most part.\u00a0 We still need to paint the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-house","category-lunchbox","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}