We interrup your regular programming for…
…the rest of life!
Troy is away in Kauai with his new wife and their families. Hopefully Saturday was a perfect day for them for the wedding ceremony and festivities. Here, the concrete has been peacefully curing and I’ve been shoveling my heart out. But with Troy away, there’s a bit of “relaxation.” After all, the non-essential back filling doesn’t need to be done by morning. So for the past week I’ve tended to other things, and yes, life has really crowded my plans.
The garden and backyard received even more TLC. There’s a local guy who builds just about anything out of 2x4s, so long as you can draw him a picture. I drew up a sturdy stand to hold rain barrels about 18 inches off the ground and a patio set up in an “L” shape of a planter, bench, planter, bench and planter. He built them and delivered them in about five days. The local BiMart store put its bare root fruit trees on 50% off and included their blueberry bushes among those. I bought three. And, on Saturday, my former neighbor Sally and I hopped in her truck and visited Wilco where I bought four rainwater barrels. I checked in with Lucile and am astonished that she’s doing great and sending out new leaves!!!
All of that made for a very busy weekend between deck-sealing the barrel stand, planters and benches, planting the blackberries, setting up the water barrels and such. I mowed the lawn which was starting to look more like a prairie than a lawn. And sadly, again contemplated the last tiles I need to set in place in the bath shower and put off doing that yet again.
Those were all wonderful things to spend time doing. Toss in a Friday playing hookie and visiting the Wooden Shoe Tulip farm (woodenshoe.com) and a really sweet time singing at church Sunday morning, and I couldn’t have asked for a more delightful weekend.
Ah but of course, LIFE has to intrude as well. With that, add a trip to the place I bought my cell phone to ask why it just transformed itself into a paperweight, and the scheduling of a dental visit for the dental work that just broke loose. Then there’s the really unpleasant business of a letter I had to send to my former landlady. And, last but not at all least, it’s time to begin ramping up work for the Annual Artist Event at Valley Art. Thank goodness I have a co-chair for the event this year!!! PHEW! She’s already been both my right AND my left hand!
Troy returns at the week’s end so now I’ve got to get back to work finishing up the less essential filling, running the blue tracer wire along the new non-metal Warsbo water line to the house, and a little extra clean up. I want him to return to the site looking great and begging his enthusiasm to pour that garage floor and start up with the walls.
The next phase will be an exciting one… and me and Tweet will get to watch it all happen.
For those just tuning in: Lucile is the transplanted lavender bush and Tweet is the mouse with a penchant for bird seed that has taken up temporary residency with me. Tweet gets evicted when the construction ends.
