Great News

Today a surveyor knocked on my door and told me that the city is planning on digging up my front & back yard. Fabulous. I knew that work was going to be done eventually and in the grand scheme of things I am grateful the city is doing something. Everytime that it rains, the creek in our backyard overflows and our backyard looks like a lake and you could go white water rafting in our front yard. The street floods and cars can't even drive through it.

But, we had planned on selling our house before all this reached our door. Now, of course no one will buy a house with a bulldozer in the front yard. I even discovered yesterday that there is some kind of mysterious sink hole that is indefinitely deep in our front yard. Meaning, the exact spot that I stood in to hang up xmas lights this year, there was only about a foot of packed dirt keeping me from sinking to the bottom of the earth.

Now, our front yard is basically at a standstill. We can't make any improvements until this work, which has no identified start date or end date... is finished. We can't sell our house, we can't fix it up, we may not be able to enjoy the front or back yards, probably not be able to open the pool this summer & won't even be around next year to reap the benefits of all this work. Well hopefully... this house is a pain in my ass!

Dylans bday is next month and there is no way that I am going to have people here considering the state of my yards right now. I had considered doing a big party with friends and everything, but since it looks like we will have to use a family members home and our family runs about 30 deep between Jon and I... looks like we will have to really do up his 2nd bday next year.

Arrrrrg.