Scourge of the Neighborhood

First, I need to brag on a grammar, writing, language program we just invested in about a month ago. It is a phonics-based spelling program that also focuses on cursive writing early. I have to show the beautiful work that 6-year-old Einstein did today. He writes more beautifully than I do, and MUCH more beautifully than Handy Man, who thinks the only difference between capitol letters and lower case letters is that the former is taller. He writes like an architect. Oh, wait... hee hee.

Oh and guess what?! Masons are coming to my house soon, very soon, and that means... TA DA... we won't be the scourge of the neighborhood for too much longer. Our house will not remain forever wrapped in Tyvek sheeting. (If you're one of my neighbors, we're really sorry. We blame Mother Nature entirely!) Soon our house will have stone on the lower half, up to the windows, Hardy Plank siding on the top portion and cedar shanks in the dippity-dos (that's wife-speak for in between the pointy parts). Pictures to come soon. In the meantime, I'll post our neighborhood scourge pic of our house. Too bad I didn't get a pic of the dirty looks my neighbor gave us last weekend while he was picking up sticks in his perfectly manicured lawn, because he looked like he wanted to light our house on fire.




And even though those pictures were taken last summer... the exterior really doesn't look much different. The back still looks like this, only muddier, with windows.


Wait'll they find out we're lousy landscapers, too.