Outside Lights

This week off has been really great. I'm totally bummed that it's Saturday and my stay-cation is pretty much over. We got a lot done. With the cooler weather, we moved some of the home improvement projects outside. The two trees we ordered haven't arrived yet. One of the Moon Valley Nursery locations is closing down and there are some really great deals. But that also means we have to wait about two weeks to have our trees planted. In the meantime, we did some weeding and....lighting!

I really hate brass. If there's one theme that is pretty constant in my blogging, it's changing out anything that's brass. This is the front on my house.

The Before.

And the After. We switched out the light, added some seating, potted flowers, and spray-painted the doorbell. I left the windchime that was with the house when we bought it. I have heard two different superstitions about wind chimes - someone told me it's bad luck to take one down, and someone else told me it's bad luck to have the old one up if I didn't put it up. I'm not superstitious and I think it's a cute windchime, so it's staying.

The new outside lights are motion-sensing, so they will turn on if someone comes to the front or back. Nice security feature, but also convenient for those of us who forget to turn the light on.

This is the light in my backyard. Or was....

It's really amazing how changing out the old lighting really perks things up.

And I have to say how much I Loooooove the weed sprayer. Don't let the fact that Joseph is in the picture fool you - I did a whole two gallons for the front yard. He just doesn't take the pictures.