Jake’s knee has been bothering him on and off since he sprained it in July, so I took him to his pediatrician’s office last week. They recommended seeing an ortho, which we did today. Unfortunately, he has a torn ACL, which will need to be surgically repaired. He’s getting an MRI next week to make sure there isn’t any other damage and then he has a follow-up appointment in a couple of weeks with the ortho. We’ll get things scheduled at that point. He will definitely need time off from school and work, and as you can imagine, he’s not very happy about all of this.
deadpool
I don’t like superhero movies, with the exception of the Iron Man series. They take themselves too seriously (whereas Iron Man was pretty funny). I heard this movie was also funny, so I figured I’d give it a shot. Not my kind of humor, though. The plot was interesting enough, but overall I was disappointed in the film. I guess I’m in the minority, but that’s how it goes.
My rating: 3/5
bad to worse
So, the hedge situation…the rest of the hedges were removed last weekend and it looks even worse than we anticipated. We had some things up against the hedges (rock pile, compost bin, etc.). It looked fine before, but now it looks like we have a bunch of garbage sitting in the middle of the yard.
Brian took care of the rock pile by putting in a dry rock foundation around the shed (the shed is raised off of the ground and the ground slopes, so there was a pretty big space between the bottom of the shed and the ground on three sides). It looks amazing! I don’t know why we didn’t think of this idea before. And almost all of the rocks were used in its construction, so that takes care of one problem.
We’re going to move the compost bin to the garden area. This means I will be losing one of my raised beds to accommodate it, so that is disappointing. The bed is currently planted, so we won’t be able to move it till the fall.
Lastly, we’ve decided that we don’t trust the neighbor to plant new hedges in a timely manner, so we’re going to plant a number of evergreen trees this fall. It’s not going to be a whole row of them–just enough to block the view of their patio. Next spring, we’ll fill in with some additional plants (hostas, grasses, etc.). With the sale of our house looming in the near future, we need to fix what we can ourselves.
10/09 kitchen
We’ve been wanting to go to 10/09 Kitchen ever since we heard about it a few years ago when one of the owners attended a series of marketing seminars that Prime Design Solutions did. In addition to that connection, the chef/other owner of the restaurant was one of my brother’s childhood friends.
Well, we finally made it there yesterday. My parents went there earlier this year and couldn’t stop raving about the place, so my mom thought it would be nice to go there for the August birthdays (my mom, dad and grandmother all celebrate birthdays this month).
They weren’t wrong about the place–the food was excellent. The menu is pretty limited, but very high quality. We will definitely be going back.
borders
Years ago, our neighbor to the back threatened to remove the hedges. For whatever reason, it never happened…until this week. I heard someone running a chainsaw and saw that the hedges were being removed. This was confirmed yesterday, when the neighbor stopped over to let Brian know.
In the spring, new hedges will be planted (supposedly), but I have to think it will be quite some time until they are effective. And, we will likely be out of here by the point of effectiveness. In the meantime, I guess I will have to glare at the neighbor when I see him from the back yard.
If there’s any plus side to this, it’s that it is getting pretty shady in the back due to all of the mature shade trees on our and neighboring properties, so at least my garden will get a little more sun.