Sunday, January 07, 2007
SPIFFING UP
We were not going to do much of a makeover of the house for the big birthday and 'time in the desert' party on the 28th of this month.
But some tweaking here and there is inescapable.
I had scheduled some landscaping which might or might not have made it in time but I pushed a little to make it happen before.
We relaid the dry wall outside our big wall. Three feet high, made of round boulders from the Whitewater area north of Palm Springs.
It has been there for ten years and has slowly dissarranged itself what with the small tremors, occasional collisions with parking cars and varmints building homes behind.
I also had the bougainvillea along the north wall trimmed way back and put in new plants to fill in. It had gotten very scraggly. The result of buying the hybrid white which is very place sensitive and it appears that is not the best place for it.
It was time to declump and replace the iris in the back corner and we put in some additional hibiscus to hide the trash area in the back.
Inside there is more red wall than there was to support the dramatic 'virgin birth/DNA' painting inside the front door.
We are also going to do something about the half-OK chairs in the guest room (where no one will go at the party) and across from me at the desk.
We will get the entire patio pressure cleaned because it needs it anyway.
I am giving you a lot of detail here just to see me write it down.
When I put it all down it doesn't seem like that much but, when we are doing it, there is nothing else in the world but the mess and disorder of fixing.
I don't like it.
We are expecting about 140 people. More than we thought.
The more the merrier at this point.
There is also a kind of low level nervousness about it.
I know it will be fine. I get paranoid from time to time about things like 'the caterer is not going to come' or 'the people are not going to come' or something massive like that, whereas, the little stuff keeps getting done as it should.
A little more faith over fear is required.
