HWT

This week I wish it was Friday already... it's been a busy one.

• My Birchbox is MIA and Birchbox staff is too.  I've emailed and left a message with no response to either attempt to contact them.  According to shipping my box has been at the local post office for a week now.  Sigh... :( 
• Softball started back up which means two of our weeknights are consumed with softball.  It gives me one more excuse not to work out, but I'm going to try to muster up the motivation to fit workouts into my schedule.  
• I cannot wait for fall.  Wait. Let me rephrase that.... I want it to be fall right after my birthday (which happens to be in the first week of September).  I want to enjoy the 70 degree weather, pull out the sweatshirts, make chili, have hot tea, roast some squash, and have all my fall and winter Bath and Body Works candles burning without T telling me "you know it's August."  Summer wasn't as exciting as it usually has been, sure we've relaxed, but it's been so fast.  
• We have a plumber coming to repair the spigot on the back of the house today.  You see when we purchased the house the handle was cracked and broken off, we decided not to push to get something that little fixed because at the time we thought we would be able to replace the handle but because it is from the 1970's parts are slightly different and ours will have to be soldered on instead of the screw on types they sell at hardware stores.  At the same time I'm hoping that I don't get a call saying "we're going to have to do more than we thought and it's going to be ...."  those are probably my worse fears.  Only time will tell.  

So what is it that we yearn to have a spigot in the backyard for?  Oh, well let me tell you about the dust clouds and the mud pits?  Last year we got the tree cut down and now we would love to have one of these guys back there for the fall...

Found here. 

It would be nice to have nice lush green grass surrounding the firepit too!  We haven't had the best of luck in the front yard with grass but we are hoping that because the backyard gets shade throughout the day (along with the sun) that it has a better chance to get a good root base before the heat of summer NEXT year.  

Since there are some areas that tend to get pretty wet we are thinking about a stone pathway something along the lines of the ones below.  Nothing that straight, maybe squares at an angle as a wide pathway from the gate around to the deck and then from the deck to the firepit? 

Maybe squares at an angle?   Found here 

Before we do anything we need a functioning spigot!!!  *Fingers crossed please*