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Musing about Landscaping the Estate

I’ve always wanted to go full, self-indulgent client with landscape and get some high powered designer to give me the works- hard-scape, plants, water features. I’ve never had the money to do this so every house we owned so far has been DIY landscaping on the cheap. What this means to me is putting in small. Inexpensive plants and waiting for them to grow. It generally means planting without a plan, Willy-nilly. It also means lazy, not doing the research and settling for whatever happens. When you are young, you rationalize this working you since you never imagine that you will get old or that time will run out. You seldom worry about what it will look like long-term either.

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How’s that house coming?

Framing? Not yet.

We started on details for the house. It seems premature but if we start the process now we will be better prepared for making good decisions later. It is a dead time in the process and very frustrating. We are still waiting on the estimate for construction costs for the plan we developed and approval for our loan request. All we can do right now is worry. We are concerned that we will exceed our budget. This makes us nervous and hesitant to make decisions. But while we wait it is time to think about details and finishes.

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