It's almost been a Month

It's been almost a month since my last entry, and I mean to write in it every day, and every day seems to get shorter than the day before.
For the last six weeks, Patricia and I have been taking care of Jessica & Eli's home and their Shitzu, Homer.

Homer, the top dog

We have to say that Homer is the best behaved dog we have ever encountered, as long as Patrica hand feeds him, and he is not left alone for too long.
When we got there on the 10th of July, the first thing Patricia looked at was the front courtyard and started to make plans to redesign it - with previous permission from the owner.  Good husband that I am, I went strait to work and pulled all the weeds, and I mean everything went. I did not even have time to take adequate 'before' pictures.

This is the closest to a 'before' picture, and lots of stuff has already been removed.

Now it's a blank canvas, and Patricia can play.

And play she did.

Now this is only one part of it; there is another and larger part on the other side where we actually began.

First we had to move a 300 pound Buddha up the plank to the far right corner from the side shown above.

Then Patricia & Homer worked out a design.

And after it began to take shape, Homer had to test it out and give his approval.
He's mostly worried that his digging space is gone!

There are some more pictures on my Facebook.

On a more personal note, I have been walking alot, 7 to 10 miles a day over 2 months. I've lost 20 lbs. along the way and am resolved never to find them again.  I've been walking with my Fitbit device.  If you are curious, go to FitBit and see for yourself.