Hubby and I are starting to feel old. We know we’re not, but we’re approaching thirty and our 10 year class reunions from high school are coming up…and it makes you just want to stop counting birthdays. I have recently said I’m just going to age until 25 or 30, then go back down to 21, back up to 30 and so on. Then there’s no climbing into the 30s range and all those things that are expected in life like having kids and so on. But I digress.

Hubby has a year on my age-wise so his 10 year reunion is this year. He went to a German high school while he was living in New York and he is still very good friends with a guy he met there, who happened to be here this weekend helping us work on the farm. Poor him for getting involved in those projects but it seems we didn’t work him too hard lol. So hubby and a few of his old high school buddies decided that they must have a 10 year reunion and since no one else seems to be interested to plan one or even mention one, they designated themselves. Actually rather impressive for 3 guys to take on a task like that but they have been joined by a girl who is really cracking her whip over them now so it would seem that the event will be taking place…at our farm…on May 19th.

We volunteered our place because it’s large enough to host at least 50 people for drinks, dinner and all that…and we can offer it for free. Plus if people are really wanting to save some cash, they can sleep in our hay loft although we wouldn’t necessarily recommend it…nor do we want to have to clean everything out up there just yet so people can sleep up there. But we will of course.

So that date puts us under some serious time constraints and we are probably going to come down right to the wire on this one. We will be working on things during the weekends for the most part, unless things really get tight and hubby has to take a day or two off.

Here’s how things look for us for the weekends until May 19th…

1. March 24-25 – Finish taking down the ivy in the backyard and at least get the main parts of it off the roof and out of the barn. We also need to get everything loaded into the bio container and should have some additional time for things like finishing our kitchen handles.
2. March 31-April 1 – Order another trash container and fill that sucker up. We have tons of stuff in the barn still that can go as well as some bird refuse still. It’s almost like there’s an endless supply of things to throw away here. I’d really like to get the bird areas cleaned up before the reunion since they have a bit of an odor now and in the summer it will only get worse. Plus, we just don’t need that stuff sitting around, attracting bugs and who knows what else.
3. April 7-8 – This is Easter weekend and a four-day holiday. We probably should be staying here to work on the farm but we’re going out of town instead. At least it’s a bit of a reward for all the hard work we’ll be doing the weekend before.
4. April 14-15 – Macky is supposed to start working on the foundation running along the bottom of the house which is showing some wear and tear. I don’t mean a slab or anything structural, but more a border running along the bottom of the house, basically the exterior walls of the basement since the house sits up rather high off the ground. We’re hoping he’ll be finished with repairing this by the end of the week but we’re not getting out hopes up too high considering his previous jobs. So we will probably start painting the exterior of the house and all the buildings this weekend, starting furthest away from the house so they can wrap up their work.
5. April 21-22 – Here we’ll be hoping to finish the rest of the painting. We’re budgeting 2 weekends and hopefully we’ll have good weather. If we can’t get it done these two then we still have a third weekend that we can use to finish things up.
6. April 28-29 – This weekend hubby will be in Monte Carlo with his company for an off-site meeting. I have no idea what I will be doing yet this weekend but I am fairly certain it will be something to do with gardening, planting or cleaning.
7. May 5-6 – Here we’ve got a weekend to finish any painting, get another trash container or just get things together around here. We might have to be doing some planning stuff for the reunion as well at this stage.
8. May 12-13 – Hubby’s grandmother will be turning 80 so we will be out of town this weekend also to attend her party.
9. May 19 – REUNION PARTY!!!

So there are essentially 8 weekends between now and the reunion but we will only be working 5 of them so hopefully the weather will be great all these weekends and we’ll be very productive. We will be looking for our counter top to arrive from Italy, have a lot of junk to clean out still and will be even more stressed if people actually do want to sleep in the barn since the stairs going up there are not perfect at the moment and would need some attention before the event. But at least a deadline like this gives us a really clear time line and we have lists of things we want to finish before then so we know just what is ahead. Hopefully we can just keep ourselves going during all this. 🙂