Meet Bozo

We welcomed a new little oscar into our home this week. Little Bozo is so teeny tiny and beautifully colored.

















And here is Rufus, the Oscar that we've had for over a year. He's in a neighboring tank.

Sad broken window

Thanks Delmarva

Not sure what this is, but it's giving us electricity! It's going to be there for a while because they have to figure out where they have an issue in the lines...

What happens when the sump pump breaks

Deer at our house!

Easter flower steal of a deal

 

On the way home from Easter dinner we stopped at a guy selling flowers on the side of the road. For $20 we were able to take everything he had left!

Featherfin catfish is a little chunky

Backsplash Update

Next we have to paint the cabinets. I'm thinking maybe a light grey color?

New couch!

 

Time to say goodbye to the old couch. Sunshine is refusing to get off it!



 

Both girls are slowly bonding with the new stuff. The giant sectional with 2 ottomans basically turned the living room into one giant couch! Who wouldn't like that?



 

Pouting on the new couch with a stuffy. For some reason I'm having a hard time feeling sympathetic.



 

Everyone is settling in! This is a $999.99 special at Costco. so far we've had it for a month and we are all in love! Hopefully it holds up better than our previous couch and love seat combo.

Glad that's not our fence!

This winter has not been kind to any of us, including the neighbor's fence.

Giant wheelbarrow

Yes we have a  tiny yard. Yes I bought a giant 10 cubic foot wheelbarrow. Yes it's awesome!

New Backyard!

Our backyard is a total disaster. Not only a mud pit, but when you step down you sink about 6 inches into the clay. Then you have to play nice to try and get your shoe back. 

Last year we placed a drain across the yard and sunk a sump pump in the yard to pipe the water out to a storm drain. It worked for all the standing water, but didn't help with the squishy mud. It's not even spring yet and the backyard was BAD. We couldn't even imagine what this spring would bring with all the rain.



First we has 2 cubic yards of stone and 7 cubic yards of double shred mulch delivered.



We dug out all of the drenched clay! Talk about heavy. Used cat litter to soak up the standing water as we were digging.



Then we drilled holes in some black tubing



They make drain tube condoms! Who knew?



This second drain tube is going underneath the original drain tube.



Had to make sure everything was pitched or tilted to a nice angle to the water would run in the right place.



Tons of heavy wet clay. All hand dug. We hate clay right now...



We buried the drain



Then put a nice layer of stone down. Hopefully the water will drain through the stone to the tube and into the sump pump.



We found some weird round thing in the ground? Maybe an elevation marker form when the houses were built?



Then we woodchipped! Rainy's feet hurt when she walks on stones. After we let the girls out and BF saw how much they loved running in the wood chips. we decided to do the entire yard instead of just the bottom third.



I think it looks great! We haven't had any mud in almost 2 days! I think I can start mopping the kitchen floor again!



Still trying to decide what to do with all this extra clay. We just have it piled up behind the fence out back. Hoping someone will want it?

This ended up being an insane amount of work and it took us over a week. We had to cry uncle and get help for an entire day on Sunday. If this doesn't fix out water problem I'm not sure what our next step will be...