Driveway

Time to re-stone the driveway.

 It takes two dump truck loads, a friend with a tractor, and a lot of back breaking shoveling.

Many of my neighbors have black topped their driveways. But for that cost, I can stone my driveway for the next 35 years! And I have yet to find anyone who can give me a practical justification for black topping. 

Weeds

Celebrating home ownership. We arrived home from vacation and the flower beds had been taken over by weeds! Two wheel barrel loads later, the flower beds are now reclaimed!

Dehumidifier

I returned from vacation to find my basement at 70% humidity and smelling very musty. I suspected that if the humidity level raised much higher it might start raining in my basement!

My basement is always humid. There is a spring on the hill out back that feeds my sump pump all year long and keeps the basement moist. Usually I combat this with two 70 pint dehumidifiers, but one of them died last year. I had hopes to be able to survive on only one, but no luck

So I am now the owner of another 70 pint dehumidifier. These things are rather expensive, but are cheap when considering the  cost of damage that humidity can cause to a finished basement.