It has been a rainy, rainy, rainy month. We saw the sun on Friday and Saturday for the first time in several weeks. I seized the opportunity to go grocery shopping without an umbrella, and I also got a few yard work projects done. I trimmed up the yellow bushes in front of the house, and put down two bags of new mulch. I had some mulch left over, so I repotted a few plants that were looking a little sicky and put mulch in the top of the containers. Usually I forget to mulch the top, and water evaporates before the plants can drink it. With a crown of mulch to block evaporation, the roots get a chance to work. I also gave the sunroom a good cleaning.
Now that the rain has started again, I'm going to be stuck indoors for another few weeks. I've been plotting a remedy for my stained concrete living room floor. The stain has become chipped in several places, and was looking patchy in others. My first thought was getting one of those pens that you use to remain dings in furniture, but was doubtful about how that would work on concrete. So I went to Home Depot and just browsed around for some kind of concrete stain patching tool. What I found was rust-oleum in a nice chocolate brown. I sprayed it directly on the concrete in some places, using short, controlled bursts. For the chips, I sprayed the rust-oleum into a paper bowl and dabbed it into the crevices using a cotton swab. In retrospect I probably should have filled the holes with spackle or something, but whatever - good enough.
Right now the floor looks a million times better - much closer to the "seamless piece of mahogany" that the company had originally promised. We'll see how it holds up over time, but for a $5 fix I'm pretty pleased!
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