The patio guys are here! I’m so incredibly excited. This morning they have spraypainted the outline of our new patio and walkway on the lawn in bright orange, and let me tell you, it’s the bright orange of JOY. I can already imagine myself sitting RIGHT OVER THERE with a Tom Collins in hand!

They’re currently across the street digging out the patio for another house on our street. Later this afternoon they’ll be digging ours out. Then, the concrete will actually arrive tomorrow. I thought that it would take a few weeks, maybe even months, for all the work to be done — this company’s main job is to provide patios for pools, and they squeeze in little jobs like ours between their main jobs, so it’s sort of a work-whenever-we-can kind of schedule. But at this rate, we could be barbequing in grass-free comfort by the end of the week!

I’m REALLY HAPPY right now.