Welcome to California

Now please proceed to finding a place to buy a fleece.

If you are ever in the city during the summer you can spot a tourist from a mile away, why, because they are wearing one of these bad boys.

Source: Only in San Francisco

Which can be found here any near any of the wharfs, but look now they are online. Seriously these are the biggest seller in the city. Now why does this come up? Because I have been wearing this guy all week:

Honestly I think Northern California keeps North Face in business. Don't get me wrong I am by no means complaining, my favorite outfit is jeans, a sweater and my chucks, but for the east bay it is weird. Next week we are supposed to be back up into the 80's though so for the time being I am going to soak up my mid 70 days and below 60 nights. 

Certainly going to enjoy some of this "outside weather" this weekend. Here is to a very stressful week being almost over and to our project hopefully getting way more progress this weekend. What project, oh this one.

The retaining wall that started falling down hard core after one of our last big storms, remember here. So we have been working hard this week and has gotten to this point, who am I kidding M has done all the work. The wall is out, and the digging has begun. Now the post holes have to be dug and cement and poles in then the wood actually has to be placed back and then the dirt will then have to be refilled in. Oh and draining is being added, we he DOES NOT want to do this again.

In good news about this is hopefully i can get those planks sanded down well enough to make our very own reclaimed wood table! Woop woop that would be awesome. So here is to a busy weekend.

Cheers!

Feeling green

So he finally made it home! Friday night late night M finally made it back, I was long asleep but you better believe Chloe met him at the door. Pretty sure that was enough for him, besides my butt does not waggle and my whole body does not shake.

So Saturday what did M want to do? We headed to Home Depot. This was of course because I had given him a slight nudge to fix the leaking sprinkler so I could stop having to water the front lawn. So M has been obsessed with his garden and this weekend we went one step further in making sure we are prepping the soil as best as we can. We started our first compost bin.

So I am a big follower of the DIY extraordinaire, the  Petersiks over at Young House Love and of course they have done the compost bin so I got to simply got to copy what the did. So we took our simple $5 Rubbermaid bin.

And started composting. Some grass, coffee grounds, and old apples. We are on our way to better nutrient rich soil (as compared to the weed filled sand the previous owners tended to the 5 years before we moved in.

Maybe next up we will try the rain barrel?

Killing it.

Until I get my life together again (i.e. laundry, clean house, write thank yous, finish putting the corner of gifts away) I will be sharing pictures cause really who wants to know the daily details of getting my house orderly again? And I need to get it orderly again so I can start an outlet for my creative side again. Maybe build some more furniture, make throw pillows for the seesters. Thinking these pillows from Ballard Designs would be really fun to make for one of the seesters

(find them here)

But off to get this butt to work so I can get home and start the clean up the house process. So I leave you with this on this glorious Friday morning.

Seriously our photographer rocked it. Candice you are amazing!

(From our day after shots with Candice from Serendipity Studios).

All the single ladies

Yep, M is off to Mrs. B's hometown for his bachelor party this weekend. He called me when he touched down down in nola and he was a few drinks in already, with I am sure more than a few to go for tonight.  So what does that mean? Means girls weekend for me a Chloe (not including the cat, damn cat).

So not sure if anyone has caught the weather news when it comes to the Bay Area but it has been a little nuts.  Tonight I can home to this:

Seriously thank goodness I saw this mess before Chloe the little rascal saw it herself, because I know the second she did it would of been disastrous. By the way it does not look like the backyard is going to have any chance of drying up either. They said 2 more storms coming through. Ughhh I really hope the forecast for sunnier weather next week holds true!

If anything here is to a girly weekend sitting in front of the fire (well if I can call someone to start one for me) and watching the Lifetime Network. Stay dry!