Ambitious this weekend

After being away the past 4 weekends, I'm REALLY excited about the opportunity to be home this weekend to tackle some projects!

Here's what's at the top of my list:
1) Fall gardening--I bought some bulbs while in Amsterdam and I want to get them into the ground. Also, all my summer bedding plants in the front are looking weedy, so it's time to pull them out. The same goes for the tomato patch in the back yard.

2) Paint the living room--I found a delicious golden beige in the the mis-mix bin at OSH earlier this week (more info about that fantastic resource in an earlier post). I painted some test squares all around the room and it's really quite wonderful--warm, tinted enough to look more than benign cream, picks up the golden tones in my curtains, throw pillows and persian rug, and only $4 for the gallon, which will be enough for my little living room. With white trim and the dark hardwood floors, I think it will look GREAT.

3) Repair some windows--After reading a how-to article in This Old House Magazine, I'm thinking I can replace some cracked panes, and reset some loose ones, which would make the back bedroom a bit more draft-free.

The big HOWEVER to all of the above is that it's supposed to rain this weekend and all of these projects rely on dry weather to a certain extent. Boooo! Knowing that, I'm leaning toward painting. The damp will make it slower to dry, but that's not as bad as gardening in the rain, or removing windows in the rain.

Or I may bake some cookies and sit on the couch knitting all weekend to have some chill time. Whatever I choose, I'll have some sort of progress pics on Monday, even if it is a plate of cookies and a sweater. :)

Still waiting

The Soils Analysis took 8 weeks instead of the quoted 4, and now Structural Engineering bumping up on it's quoted 4-week mark with nary a peep about progress. I had a long conversation with Architect Pete while at SFO waiting to board my flight to Amsterdam and he doesn't think the foundation work will be able to start until until the spring.

*sigh*

That means I have two options:
1) Spend another winter managing crawl space flooding with my submersible pump.
2) Invest in some drainage resolution ASAP even though it may get in the way of future foundation work.

Either way, I need to get some gutters up on the north side and definitely need to order my rain barrels pronto.