I Lost 5 pounds!! YEAH!!

oh, and WTG girl on those 5 pounds!

Talk to me Elic!! Talk to me!! lol how do you go about doing that? Hubby wants to see about this guy who has a saw mill and maybe make a deal with him with something like he can have all the pines he wants if he'll cut some, how ever many we need into slats for us for the fence. So if we could use these trees as a privacy fence, how would we do that? Inquiring minds want to know!! lol It would be so much cheaper if we could use the trees as they are and just cut them into the lengths we'd need.

And thank you!! I'm so happy about losing the 5 pounds! It took 2 weeks of working in these darned woods that you'd think I'd have lost 20 pounds but hey, 5 is ok because it's a start!! lol

lop off the limbs and stick 'em in the ground..

and remember, muscle weighs more than fat, so you may have lost the equivlent of 20 lbs.

That's what I thought but that would leave gaps in sections of the trees. Hubby wants perfect privacy from the next door neighbors. I don't know but I'll ask him about it and see what he says. Thanks Elic!!

And about the 5 pounds and muscle.... I love the way you think!! LOL

so you stick smaller branches between the bigger posts - heck, how do you think they used to build forts with logs? they didn't have saw mills back then...

I think he likes the idea!! Thanks Elic!! You're a GEM!!

knew all that history was good for something

Thanks Polly!! I'm so stinking proud of myself!! LOL I was so skinny as a kid till my 30's and then I blew up like a balloon!! Well, I did have a hysterectomy too and I blame it all on that!! LMBO! BUT.... there is an upside to that.... no more painful periods!! LMBO!! YEEEEAH!! LOL
Yes those fences ARE expensive!! Gee, just for 200 feet is something like $1500.!! SHAZAM!! is what I said!! You can add a few words here and there if you'd like. LOL
I don't think we'll move either. It's too much of a paridise with the exception of our NEXT DOOR neighbor but a fence will take care of that. Elic, above you, has a grand idea of using the pines as a fence instead of buying the wood.... I'm going to talk to hubby about doing that instead of buying the wood. We'll see how it goes!!

Thank you!! I'm so loving it!! lol Today I'm taking the day off. I'm going to go visit with my parents for a few hours and then when I come back home, I have some things to do and mylotting too with those discussions that I've talked about. Busy day but a fun one first and then back to work but it won't be as much labor as the woods are. Whew!

Oh don't worry dear book!! I'm feeling much better today, still sore but better!! Today I'm going to go visit with mom and dad for a little while. I bought her a pretty bucket with a container inside with her favorite flowers, pansies! She's going to love it!! lol Hugs!!

thats such an adorable idea with the bucket and the pansies, sure your mom will love them and be happy about your great thoughtful gift. you are a gem of a daughter.,

Oh book! You should've seen her face when I gave her the basket of pansies!! She was sooo happy to get them!! lol It really made me feel so good to see her smile and know that I put it there!! LOL I also bought dad some underwear too, the kind he likes but are too expensive for them to buy and he was right happy to have them. They had to go to the store to get a few things and while they were gone, I cleaned all three of their bathrooms and the floor and hubby did some outside work too which they appreciated very much. Then we invited them down to our place for dinner and we had a pot of ribs, cabbage, onions, potatoes and a turnip. Plus we made corn bread and had some cantaloupe slices. It was oh so good! We really enjoyed our day!

I bet you enjoyed doing these good deeds for your parents, giving them the flowers and straightening out there a bit plus then having them over for dinner. That meal sounds so super yummy sure you put a lot of work into that too and I bet you were totally exhausted after that day........

Thank you!! We have a long long way to go before we're finished with our back yard. We have so much more property than we first thought! We had one side surveyed thanks to the nasty neighbor on that side and we were astonished to find out "What?! That much is ours?" It'll be years and years before we get it all finished but that's ok because if it helped me to lose 5 pounds.... just think how much it'll help me lose this summer?! lol I need to lose at least 40 pounds and maybe I can do it!! I'm certainly going to try!

Sweetie, if you wanna help, I won't stop ya!! Come on over!! lol

congrats on the new find!!! and again congrats on the weight lost. I needa back yard so drop the pounds!!!

Thanks Marti! And no I'm not glad for that horrible neighbor because it cost us $350. to have just one side surveyed! We had no idea it would cost so darned much but it had to be done. We should've sent the neighbor half the bill. lol I can see him now, balking at the mere idea! lol
Like you, I love to work outside. It is a therapy kind of thing because of the fresh air and laboring in it and seeing the fruits of our labor is amazing! We have so darned many pine trees that it'll be forever and a day before we get them all down. They make such a mess of things with their pine needles and grow so fast that they block the other trees from getting any sun. It's amazing to see these trees reaching in odd positions trying to get a peek all the while, the pines keep on growing and taking over. But not for long! Like you've described, most are very tall and skinny which is more dangerous to our furry friends so we have to be diligent in keeping them away when we're getting ready to drop one.
About our house, it has a colorful past. The people who built it had a run down log cabin further back in the yard and one day the wife and kids went to visit with her mother and the father was working in the yard. He smelled smoke and went to check it out and found his house on fire. He called for help but the house was a total loss. The neighbor on the other side said she asked if he had called his wife yet and he said "oh yeah, I better call her." It sounded suspicious so everyone thought something wasn't right but they couldn't prove anything. These people were from Ohio and they wanted to go back but the insurance company wouldn't give them the money unless they built another house which is the one we live in now. They lived in it for about 6 months before selling it and moving to Ohio. Now while or before they built this house, they must've bulldozed the other house straight into the woods and just left it there. The next people who bought it didn't clean it up but left it and vines grew and anything and everything grew all around it. Hubby got poison ivy three times from trying to cut the brush down to get to the wood which had rotted by then because it was close to 20 years later. Well that's finally done but gosh, what a mess the land is!! Trees have grown in all these weird shapes and ways and so on. We want to get my dad's back hoe out here to level out the land some to make it look nice so that when we go to fence it all in, it'll be in perfect shape to use like we want to.... a big yard for our furry friends and for ourselves for nature walks and what not. We've just made a trail for our ATV's to ride on. It'll be years and years more before we get it all done but we're working on it. lol I'll take some pictures of it the next time we're out there so you can see what we've done so far. It is amazingly different than it was!! So hopefully I'll lose the 40 pounds that I've been wanting so desperately to lose!! lol

Come on over to my place and work in the woods with me! I bet you'll lose that weight you've wanted and worked so hard to lose. I used to be skinny as a rail and since I had a hysterectomy, I've gained 40 pounds so if I can lose 5 in two weeks of hard labor then you can too!

You are so silly, ya know! Thanks for the laugh!! It came at a PERFECT time!! I'm soooooo having a bad day!! But the laugh makes the stress go away and I thank you for that!!
1/3 of an acre is huge?? Are you for real?! Wow! Our place WOULD look like a national park to you!! We have almost 5 acres here!! LMBO We love it but we wish we had more and hope to some day. lol

Almost 5 acres?! Wow!

I live in Southern California. So when we were poor growing up, our backyard was a 5 foot by 5 foot patch of grass.

Now our yard has a few palm trees and a pool (new place, not the same house, lol).

So even 1/3 acre looks very large out here. Like you actually can just go running around the yard!

But 5 acres, wow. I would really have a blast with that. I can only hope that some day I can afford so much land. But maybe I can someday, because I don't plan to stay living in this state.

Really? Where do you want to move to and when? Hubby and I are from Virginia but we don't live there now. We're in North Carolina and we LOVE it here!! People are so personable and friendly which is a huge change compared to what we're used to! It's awesome here and would not want to move or live in any other state! I can guide you to a certain area, that we wish we knew about before buying this place and hope to move to in the future, if you ever decide to move out here. We've both lived in New York, Texas and Arkansas.... none of them are our places but might be yours but it's just not ours.

I'm actually considering Virginia if I can get into Virginia Tech.

I plan on moving sometime within the next year, depending one where I get into vet school. But then later on I could easily end up moving again since I don't think I'll be able to afford anything great while going to school. Eventually I'm really hoping for some awesome huge place. I mean, the house doesn't have to be all that big, but I like the idea of not opening a window and shaking hands with my neighbors!