weekend warriors

there's a show on HGTV- home and garden tv (astro got or not??) called weekend warriors where homeowners do home improvement projects on the weekend / weekends.

since buying this house, we have fallen... i mean qualified ourselves into this group of people. lots of weekends have been spent toiling away at making this house ours, putting our personal touches or rather making it look bearable.

this weekend was a warrior weekend. it was a nice and warm day saturday so after breakfast, we did front garden work. chot cleared out dead and dried up leaves and plant at one side of the house while i leveled the soil on the retaining wall side. later, chot helped me coz my back had begun to ache, like it's shouting "help!! help!!... stop!! can't take no more..."

we worked from around 11 am, up to like 7 pm with breaks for lunch and solat. leveled the soil, put on plastic and weed barrier, and lastly mulch (that's the brown stuff on top, it is chips of wood). this is how it looks now...

and this is how it looked when we started.

*note* the straight and better looking retaining wall... our friends madie & emmy drove all the way from Kansas City and helped us re-built it. Click here for pics.

i wanted to do more on sunday and hopefully finish this side of the property but my lembek arms had begun to throb. i went to bed regretting pushing myself too far as the slightest movement send pain throughout my body.

when we woke up for subuh, chot had the nerve to ask "sakit lagi tangan (does it still hurt)??"... i only managed a weak but slightly agitated "EEMMM". inside, my blood was a little boiling.

what kind of question is that??... of course they still hurt. but i know he meant well... : ). and later that day he said when he does labor intensive work, he'd do them slowly / bit by bit so he can go longer and possibly do more in the end on account of the body doesn't burn out early. ok, make sense, i'll remember that next time... silly girl...

so on sunday, i stayed in while chot went on another boat ride and later, yard related stuff. that night, i helped him do a little wiring and i'm very, very happy to report that i can now use my dishwasher (all this while, it was just there for show... oh not really... before this it was a glorified dish drainer). we did a test run to see if the dishwasher works well and there's no water dripping.

there we were, standing in the kitchen, looking at the dishwasher doing it's thing. i felt stupid
: D...

anywhooo... that's our weekend, how was yours??