A couple months ago, my husband and I started the process to refinance our house — we wanted to use some of the money to pay for part of our bathroom renovation and then use most of the rest to pay for the renovation of our master bath, which we should probably do sometime next year. Although now that the smaller bathroom is done, I’m itching to do the other bathroom. Isn’t that always the way?!
So today we had the closing for our house, which in the midst of COVID-19, means we met the lawyer in the parking lot of our local bank. We stayed in our truck and he handed us the paperwork through our open car window to sign and initial, and then he returned to his car. We had been advised to bring our own black pens. My husband and I signed the many-paged document and the lawyer came back every couple of minutes (now wearing gloves and a mask) to take our completed paperwork to check if we missed anything (of course we did).
The whole process took about 15 minutes and I didn’t have to leave the car. And I wore yoga pants to this meeting. It’s a strange new world.
That done, we went back home (after stopping at the beer store to return a broken keg, but got a replacement, my husband in now happy!) and did our office work for the day. My husband bagged off early to rent a thatcher from Home Depot and spent the next 2 hours thatching our lawn. Have you ever seen one of these things? Basically it’s a big push lawn mower that has blades that pulls up all the dead grass and leaves it in fluffy dead piles all over your lawn. It’s supposed to be really good for the lawn, but there was a ton of fluffy piles after he’d finished (maybe we need to thatch more often??). Then my husband took his leaf blower and pushed all the dead fluffy grass into big fluffy piles of dead grass — 3 big ones. And here I thought I had gotten out of spring raking when he raked up all the leaves and twigs this week and burned them. Of course not!
So we bagged up all the piles into large brown Home Depot bags (and of course it started to rain!!). We now have 10 brown bags on the side of our yard that will stay there until oour recycling/yard waste center opens back up again. Wet grass clippings anyone??
But it’s done and I will say — the lawn does look nice! And my husband is happy. But he mentioned something about having to go back out there tomorrow to do more clean up. I really hope I am not involved in this…
Notes from a Self Quarantine 