How I spent my 4th of July

Of course I had a lot of expectations of things that would get done.
But of course it really didn't happen that way.

Paul went and spent a few hours in the Zone doing things. This meant I had to create my own things to do.....which isn't very hard these days.

First task was to get payroll done. Check.

Then I spent some time DEEP DEEP cleaning an area of the house. The chosen area was the breakfast room. After a couple of hours of scrubbing, washing, organizing, and throwing things away.....my Prince Charming finally made it home.

Time to tackle the patio cover that spent a week on our porch and then 2 months in our living room.





I should have taken pictures of the old one. It was in sad shape. It had been perfect until we had to take it down for Hurricane Ike and when we put it up again, it was never the same. The canvas roof finally started deteriorating and it had giant rips in it and the metal structure started rusting and it just looked like crap. So it was time to buy a new one.





Really and truly is was very easy to put up and only took us a couple of hours.





It's wonderful to now have a beautiful cover over our tiny slab in the backyard.



Now it's time to get some new furniture out here and jazz it up a little. We opted to not put up the netting because they just get yucky and spiders like to hid in there......so we'll just put it up as we need it.

After completion of this project, we decided to go out and get fajitas for dinner. A nice way to spend the end of my 4th with my favorite person and a good plate of fajitas!