We are about to start our Spring Break and I couldn't be more ready for it. We tend to pack a lot into these breaks and have used many of them to get things done around our farm!! Most of our painting and "remodeling" of our house has taken place over our Christmas and Spring Breaks and its so refreshing to be able to cross things off of my "To-Do" list!!
So with that in mind here are my goals for us to complete this coming week:
- Paint the guest bathroom walls, put up and paint wainscoting and paint the sink cabinet. Get new hardware and shower curtain/towels. If we can I would also like to get a new mirror in there.
- Prepare our vegetable garden and get our cold weather crops planted (peas, lettuce, kale). There are lots of weeds and we need to bring in our compost from the back.
- Spread the rest of our gravel delivery in the horse paddock. [I was lucky enough to be able to bring a group of my students to help out on the farm this last week for our "Community Service Project Week". They scooped up all the horse poop in our pasture, cleaned out the chicken coop, and spread 3/4 of our gravel delivery.]
- Weed all of my flower beds out front and spread some mulch to make it look real nice. I have 4 flower beds out front and one of them is 8'x90' its huge!!!! (who wants to come help with that?)
- Build new nesting/laying boxes for the chicken coop. Our chicken coop is a work in progress. When we first got our chickens we built a temporary coop with the finances we had available. Then a couple years ago we built our permanent chicken coop and run. Its not complete, we still need to finish up the trim, re-caulk the windows, and finish the walls on the inside. We used our temporary nesting/laying boxes so we could get the chickens moved in but since it was built for temporary use it is starting to fall apart. I saw a great alternative on pinterest here that I am hoping we can put together this week!!
♥ Ashley
Looks like your going to be a busy lady! I love work like that, is it crazy that I am sad we don't have much to do around our house this year?!
ReplyDeleteI hope you have the best spring break ever! I've already had my spring break and still have painting left to do, maybe you can come my way? ha Enjoy the family time!!
ReplyDeleteThat is one serious spring break to do list! I kinda get it though... whenver Jake doesn't travel for a week I have a crazy list of stuff and the same when my mom would come visit. :) You do things when you have time to do them!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see how the bathroom turns out!!! Hope you all have a great Spring break, I'm super jealous! :)
ReplyDeleteDang girl! You are going to be busy!!
ReplyDeleteDo you have a pinterest board filled with your DIY home stuff perchance? I need bathroom inspiration, particularly :)
I wish we got Spring breaks. Mine list would be to put the Christmas tree away (yes, I know it's April), paint a table, wash my car, bathe the dog and catch up on all my favorite blogs. Enjoy your Spring Break...hope it is very productive.
ReplyDeleteI'm so jealous of everyone who has spring break off this week! I can't imagine being a teacher and getting all those summers and breaks off, it must be so amazingly refreshing. My mom is always telling me how she can't imagine working all year round like I do, and I'm like, "Jeez Mom, don't rub it in!" LOL She is off this week, I should make her come up and do projects for me... ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat is a big old list! When I have a big to-do list like that I try to break it down even further into manageable chunks so it feels doable. If you can tick a goal off your list it makes the rest feel so much more achievable. I also try to outsource some tasks when it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteMarlon Harrington @ Aligned Earthworks