Day... umm... 65? Okay so I lost count

So on Saturday Joey went to work at 9 (I think).  Before work, he went to Dunks and got me a breakfast sandwich and a tea.  This is the day my parents usually come over but they didn't this time -- Mom grounded Dad (not in the good way either --- eeeewwwwww).  He has kind of been putting their bathroom on hold in order to help me with my house so mom told him to put in the new bathroom sink or he can't come to my house and play.  I hope he finished it because I really want to get the ceiling put so I can finish putting the walls up.

Anyways, I digress.........

So outside Lady and I went to rake the leaves and finish cleaning up the yard.  We got 90% of the yard raked and most of it bagged and I painted the picnic table before I had to pick up Joey at 2.  When we got home, we finished raking and bagging the leaves in the back yard.  Now just the front is left but that should be easy.  Oh, I also took apart the strange wooden structure that was entrapping my snow blower.  Great news though (and all you environmentalists out there are going to love this)!!!!  I measured the width of my bed and the width of the wood on the snow blower's prison and there is more than enough to make my rustic headboard.

See, I found this head board on Pintrest  (where I find most, okay, all of my home design ideas)

The only problem was finding the prefect wood that was just ruffed up enough to do it.  I found the wood sitting right in my back yard this whole time.  The only problem being, how to I keep the roughness of the wood and get the wood back to it's natural color so I can stain it?  I'm sure my Dad will have ideas, if not Ralph will. 

This is a rough idea of what the finished product will be.

So here are the before and after pictures from Saturday for you to enjoy.

Before:

During:

Lady was helping me... Just look at that beautiful smile!!

After: 

I don't think the leaves were ever raked here, there was no grass!!!
The lawn mower and snow blower are going to Dad's house to be fixed
then into the shed.  Although, I will most likely just get a new set.

Joey was picking up the last of it while I rested.  It was a REALLY
long day.

I also cleaned off the trailer pad behind my house.  It had
tons of large and small branches and other brush on it from Sandy.

All the bags we filled. and the wood for my headboard.  The yard
looks great!!!