The weather has finally been nice, so I’ve taken E to the playground every day to run off his endless energy and play with other kids. Amanda’s out of school for 4 days so she went with us on Friday. Monday is our parent-teacher conference day. I really don’t want to go. I know what she needs to work on, I know she is doing great overall. I’d be perfectly happy with an email from the teacher telling me so and be done with it.
My father in law cut down all of our dead trees last weekend. We are still in the middle of an “exceptional” drought, almost 14 inches below normal for rain. At least the weather is cooler, but we need rain so badly. I see that Atlanta is going to run out of water in 3 months if they don’t get any good rain soon. I don’t know how long our supply is. We have several rivers that our water comes from, an no one has mentioned that we will run out of water.
So now that the dead trees are cut down, you can see the sad shape our window shutters are in. Do you know how expensive window shutters are? The 2 windows on the bottom floor are “custom” size, 75 inches long and 18 3/4 wide, and that almost doubles the price for the shutters for those 2 windows. I think we may just paint them for now. I’d rather have vinyl, but they just aren’t in the budget, and won’t be for some time. And we have to do something. We have a HOA and don’t want to have the crappy looking house on the street. I don’t even know what to put in that square. I need things that are low maintaince, drought resistant, and can handle a southern exposure with full sun all day.
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