The Buerglers

Hello, again!   One of the aspects of living in an apartment that I both LOVED and HATED was not having a yard. I loved not having to worry about yard work, but as Evie grew, I hated not having a place for her to run and play.  And we long to host cookouts. Last week I did a quick tour of the downstairs of our new house, and back in March, Evie's Room .  And now I want to show the back yard.   Our GLORIOUS back yard! But this gloriousness didn't happen over night!  The family we bought the house from had done a TON of landscape work to flip the house. It looked great!   However, in order to sell a house in November they just planted big ! pretty ! things. And they exploded this Spring. Exhibit A.   It was lush, but I felt like it was encroaching on us.  And animals were starting to take up residence in the bushes. I don't do animals . Having moved from an apartment we didn't have lawn equipment to ta...

For those of you new here, I recently moved from a full-time position at a Catholic Church to a part-time one.  I also work part-time for a friend's lawn maintenance company.  I do his bills, payroll, keep him organized, and any other odd jobs that he throws my way.... Like hosting a summer cook out for the six guys on our lawn crews.  I made the invitations in Spanish, thanks to Profesora Google (we all know Google is a female because she knows everything...haha), and a quick proof read by Chris, my boss. We planned a tasty menu that was American in nature but would not be weird flavors to our Mexican guests.  Chris bought an assortment of tequila and beer, made some guacamole and some peach salsa. We were ready to fiesta. Party night came and I was really nervous. Nervous because I can barely speak enough Spanish to find a bathroom in a foreign country.  Nervous because I didn't know if any of the guys would bring their wives or girl friends. ...