3-day Weekend - Day 3

• Automatic coffee pot started dripping at 6:15.
• Drank my coffee and read my bible.
• Went for an hour run.
• Made the best pancakes ever for my family. Bacon on the side.
• Packed our picnic lunch and loaded up the van.
• Went fishing. Evan caught a nice sized largemouth bass!
• Came home for Cole's nap. Dad cleaned up the fish.
• Went to Unique for 50% off. Didn't stay long...too many bodies and not enough air.
• Stopped by DQ. Cherry dipped cones for the kids, strawberry Golden Oreo and French Silk Pie for Evan and I.
• Came home and got bikes. Went to the trail. Hit the park afterwards.
• Fried up the fish. Was fantastic.
• Kids bathed, brushed, bedded.
• Parents sit down. Unfortunately, Evan is sitting in his office doing paperwork.
• The end.
• Back to the daily grind in the a.m.

3-day Weekend - Day 1

• Donuts for breakfast.
• Late morning drive to the garden center for dirt, mulch, sod. We rode in the pickup...picture perfect: three kids in back, windows open, wife snuggled up to husband.
• Scrambled eggs and salmon wraps for lunch.
• Filled in the fire pit and laid sod.
• Bought myself this little present. It was 50% off. And includes 4 free hours of lessons.
• Replanted carrots. Hoed weeds.
• Big kids and Dad went fishing.
• Cole napped 4 hours. Mom 1/2 hour. Read book.
• Made asparagus lasagna for supper.
• Mulched.
• Checked on the baby bird multiple times.
• Watermelon face with green nose slugs.
• Haircuts.
• Exhaustion.
  
• Perfect day.

Glorious Backyard Garden

We planted some of the garden today. Evan built me two new beds this year. We put up fence to keep the kids out. They're worse than bunnies! Crossing my fingers the frost is gone for good.

Yet to come: basil, parsley, cilantro, thyme, lemongrass, mint, bell peppers, romaine, kale. This is what we planted today:

Mesclun lettuce mix, swiss chard, pole beans, carrots, spinach, beets, carrots. *Not pictured - brussel sprouts, roma tomato, cherry tomato

View from the side door.

Top bed is carrots and beets, middle bed is greens, closest bed is tomatoes and will include most of the herbs.

Pole beans along the fence, brussel sprouts in the bed (I slightly crowded them...), peppers will be in the bed, lemongrass in the big green pot.