27th April 2022
Now it is the long rake, removing all the tufts of grass and crap from the churned up garden.
This is a tedious task, but if I want to get turf laid before the weather gets too hot I need to get a move on and get the top soil ordered.
We had to go and collect an old desk from a local address. It used to belong to a former mayor of Holland, but now it is being cleared out by the daughters following the passing of their mother. We showed them some of the other desks we have repurposed into night stands and they were glad we could make something useful.
I was able to strip it down quickly, it was a good quality piece, and with the addition of new tops it will be great.
I checked on the USCIS website this evening not expecting to see any updates, but there it was, notification that my green card was being produced and should be with me soon.
This has been a long two years, at times I thought I had been over looked so often. Covid certainly caused a delay, and there was always doubt that we should have had an attorney, but we didn’t think we had a complicated case and decided to go it alone.
It looks like that paid off for us