Thank you

In September, Mike moved down from Virginia while job hunting. It was a huge change to leave the area he has lived in for the past 25+ years. And to tell the truth, we had some trepidations having a son move in without a clear plan for moving out. But I have to say thank you to Mike for everything he has done to make the transition easy and to help us while waiting for one of the jobs to come through.

In the last few weeks, he has trimmed all the shrubs - a major task at our house. Cleaned the garage, built shelves and put stuff where it belonged. He moved the lawn stuff out of the garage and under the deck so Bruce could get in the garage and eliminate the car shuffling in the driveway. This week he tackled the project of fixing the gate under the sun porch. It is a really wide wooden swinging gate that sagged, cut into the drain pipe (leaving a hole) and could not clear the grass without gouging it. It was one of those projects that nagged at me. So he took it off, cut it down and built a new frame to protect the drain pipe and lock the gate. Then he moved the 12+ 2foot square concrete slate pavers that we saved when we had a new sidewalk installed in the front and put down a floor. I now have relatively dry storage under the sun porch. And to finish off the week he pressure washed the deck eliminating 4 years of grunge.

Now I know this won't keep up, that he is burning off energy and some frustration waiting for one of the jobs to come through, and when he goes back to work these all day labor intensive projects will seem a little less interesting. But WOW - I plan to aggressively priortize my wish list of projects too small to hire someone and too hard for me to do and leave it laying around in the kitchen, maybe stuck under a magnet on the refrigerator door.