Well, whaddya know? It's Christmas in July here at the Ottinger abode, because the seawall company actually did make it here on Friday to finish the job! Ho ho ho!
It feels hot right now, but be aware that Hell may actually be freezing over. For anyone who's headed there in the next little while...you're welcome. Grab a popsicle at the door.
Actually, it wasn't an entire work crew, but just Stoner Surfer Dude and one of his hired helpers. He was wary of me after a rather heated phone call we had during the winter and then ghosting us for months (again, part of The Rest Of The Story, which will probably/maybe eventually get told). I had to leave for work before they finished up, but Matt texted me at one point to say he'd had a pretty pleasant conversation with S. S. D., during which he told Matt "I thought when I got here your wife was going to be mean to me, but she wasn't, she was real nice."
Hey, what can I say? I may talk like a sailor, but I still believe in kindness and diplomacy. Like the saying goes, you catch more flies with honey.
But do you really? Hmmm... In my experience, I've seen far more fly-covered turds than fly-covered honey puddles. But maybe I just walk in the wrong places. 💁
Anyway, here are a few before and after pictures of the yard. And now the REAL job for us begins, as we attempt to keep grass seed moist enough to sprout in July. It only took me five hours of moving sprinklers today. And a portion of the yard will become a larger version of the native garden I attempted last year before we realized that, yes, we really really did need to replace the stupid wall, and it all got torn up.
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