Spiced Rum

The lumber supplier just delivered another load of lumber for the next step. And again they delivered the wrong stuff. Our builder friends say this is the place to buy from and the pricing is good, but only one delivery has been right so far.

We ordered cedar for around the garage doors and the brought out Douglas Fir. Not a pretty wood to be exposed each and every time we go in and out of the garage. They did send out the Trex boards we are using for the fascia. Yes, we are going NO maintenance on our high exterior wood. No painting during construction or in 5 years when the strong west sun has taken all the color out of the paint.

 Doesn't the Spiced Rum look incredible with the rock? So excited!

We can't do any landscaping since we don't have our sprinkler system  yet. But, we were working on a rent house this weekend and they had planted rose bushes with huge red roses that I had to take a cutting from and it will hopefully live. Not in its permanent place because it has terrible thorns but it is in a place where it will get watered this summer. My sister dug up a bunch of Irises and I put them on the far side of the pond. They are great for soil rentention and don't have to be in a sprinkler system. So hopefully next spring we will have a profusion of color over there and the only maintenance with them will be mowing them down in the fall.