Congrats to my friend Mike Lok on completing the Flora London Marathon. Bloody good job mate!

Check out Mike's blog with (promised) video of the event at http://mikelok.spaces.live.com/

Mikes marathon stats:

 

 

I am totally knackered after yesterdays yard work. My legs and glute's (arse) are as sore as hell.

Took Alex to a playgroup with some of the kids she will be in Kindergarten with in August. Met some parents of the other kids. Was a nice morning. I think her transition from Pre K to Kindergarten will be easy because on day 1 she will know most of the kids pretty well. Wish it had been like that when I was a kid. First day at a new school was always terrifying! The American systems for this stuff are perfect.

Major project the last 3 weeks:

 

When we bought the house 18 months ago, the front lawn was an awful mess. It seemed that whatever ther weather/time of year, there was brown/yellow/green/more brown patches everywhere. Apparently there were 4 different kinds of grass growing in the lot, a 500 sq ft area. anyhow it looked awful and a month ago we finally had a letter from the homeowners association. To be honest if I were a neighbor I'd be pretty pissed looking at it every day. We've been so busy with other projects up to now that it took something like this to force us into action.

Our gardener quoted us 1300 big ones to do it. I'm like "**** that, lets do it ourselves". We did a whole lot of research, rented a heavy roto-tiller, fixed the sprinklers, fertilized, and have gradually been grading the area over the last 3 weeks. Finally we ordered the sod (why do they call it that?) "Marathon II".....it was delivered early this morning and I started to lay it down after taking Alex to school. An hour or so later....

Good Job Mr. and Mrs. Wood!

All told about $400.00 spent on the sod and equipment rental.

Next is the Wooden floor in the hallway, followed by AC, then a complete overhaul to the Spa out back.