My team met together to serve our care receiver for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic last Saturday. We maintained our six feet of distance as we ate breakfast burritos out on her back deck. Then we did various outdoor projects for the rest of the time.

Our need to do outdoor projects to reduce exposure to each other during the pandemic got me thinking that some care receivers may run out of project ideas. If so, here are some outdoor projects she (or he) may have overlooked.

• Clean out the garage
• Organize garage
• Wash and detail the car
• Check car oil, fluids and tire pressure
• Aerate, reseed, fertilize the lawn
• Clean windows
• Paint exterior sections of house
• Replace washers on hose and mobile sprinklers
• Check and repair sprinklers
• Clean patio furniture
• Repair/stain deck
• Trim trees
• Change oil on lawnmower
• Sharpen lawnmower blade
• Take large clutter to dump
• Blow out AC compressor
• Repair/replace fencing
• Plant/Weed garden
• Caulk foundation cracks
• Correct negative grades around foundation

I think this should be enough to keep most teams busy for the rest of the year…and maybe next year! If you have more ideas for outdoor projects, leave them in the comment section below.

This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.