Baby Steps

Move the wire down to open up this space. 

Prepare the new innards. 

Slowly but surely.

 

Breakfast with the Ladies

This cat eyeballs me.

 

Harvesting

I wish we loved radishes as much as we them.

 

Movie Night

Open for Godzilla V Kong

There are things to enjoy about our current situation, including theaters to ourselves still. 

I may have napped for half the movie.

 

A Charming Find

Alida recently put some of my grandmother's books on a shelf in her room, and she likes to read through them. 

She found pressed leaf from I can't imagine how long ago or with what memories attached to make its way here, but it was like a special gif that Saturday morning.

 

YouTube said we could fix the fact that we had a pallet under our porch step as another step due to some serious slope issues around here. 

And they were right!

But I'll never do that again. 

Step one.  Remove the sod because we had plans for that, which is a different story. 

Then you rent the red tractor to begin filling the hole. Most people would be digging down to build the patio foundation, but we had opposite problems as usual.  It was a concoction of YouTube videos really.

Tamp it all down. 

Tamp it all down again. 

Sprain your ankle after forgetting that you took out that last step in preparation for burying it. 

But you keep working because you took the week off, and there are things we've committed to now.

Then have two-days of morning freeze with a rain storm during the one week you took off  work to do this project. 

Then, have a whole bunch of gravel, and sand, and rip-rap (another story yet) delivered on the day you can't rent that red tractor again because the wheel is broke. 

So you hook the gorilla cart up to the John Deer and you get to work. 

And you form the patio in a 30 degree morning, so you can be working on gravel in relative warmth in the afternoon. 

Pause.  

Enjoy Easter. 

Find a tractor to rent no matter the size.

No fence was harmed in the performance of this project, amazingly. 

Put your son to work cutting the stones.

Because when I am in charge of stones, things go wrong. 

Work to the point that you no longer take pictures of anything because you just want to be done. 

 YouTube was right, but they shouldn't have said it was easy...

 

A Good Week

Good Food, and adorable.

A visit from family!

And done.  

Patric on shot two this week.

 

And my stint as cafeteria worker after 13 months is over on Wednesday when all of the children go back to school!