Wow, what a busy weekend. Very productive!! On Friday, Nolan and I drove over to Kiernan Avenue to preview the weekly car auction. This is the place that sells all of the county cars, police vehicles, etc. They also sell lots of consignments. So we came home armed with lots of information and spent the afternoon looking up vin numbers and kelly blue book numbers.
In the afternoon we turned the car over to Frank and Nolan and I put on our swimsuits and did some gardening. He helped me just about finish pulling the old ground cover and the weed paper up. We took regular dips in the pool and got a goodly amount of sun on our shoulders. We have about one more afternoon (maybe two) until I can plant my cucumbers and squash out there.
Friday night we ordered a pizza and ate it out in front in our lawn chairs while we contemplated the giant organizational project we were about to take on in the garage. After dinner we moved just about everything out of the garage, moved the shelves from one side wall more towards the center. Not quite in the middle but about 1/3 of the way over. We reorganized what was on all the shelves and made room for other things. We had give away piles and junk piles - but NO GARAGE SALE PILES. YEAH for us. Our goal was to loosen things up so that Saturday the boys could empty the storage and close that ridiculous bill down! I am happy to report that, that Mission is Accomplished. We worked ourselves to near exhaustion and called it an evening about 8:00. After gardening and the garage I was totally whipped.
Saturday the boys whipped the garage into shape, I went to my first book club meeting. We read Copper Star by Suzanne Woods Fisher. It was a great book and she came out and spoke to our group at a Bible Book Store in Turlock. My friend Esther and her cousins put on a beautiful little spread of goodies and it was just a really relaxed and enjoyable couple hours.
In the evening our friends the Kinseys came over for hotdogs, mashed potato salad, chips and a few leftover levant sandwiches from the book club. They brought a couple pies and the kids swam all evening long. Again, really relaxing nice evening.
This morning, we all got up and took Frank to the Oakland airport. We had a nice breakfast/lunch at Mimi's and took him on out to the airport. He will be gone for four days this week, so it was nice to spend all the time with him we could. We went to the Gap outlet and Old Navy and got the kids a couple of summer necessities.
We are finally home and the kids are doing some studying.
Have a good week.
In the afternoon we turned the car over to Frank and Nolan and I put on our swimsuits and did some gardening. He helped me just about finish pulling the old ground cover and the weed paper up. We took regular dips in the pool and got a goodly amount of sun on our shoulders. We have about one more afternoon (maybe two) until I can plant my cucumbers and squash out there.
Friday night we ordered a pizza and ate it out in front in our lawn chairs while we contemplated the giant organizational project we were about to take on in the garage. After dinner we moved just about everything out of the garage, moved the shelves from one side wall more towards the center. Not quite in the middle but about 1/3 of the way over. We reorganized what was on all the shelves and made room for other things. We had give away piles and junk piles - but NO GARAGE SALE PILES. YEAH for us. Our goal was to loosen things up so that Saturday the boys could empty the storage and close that ridiculous bill down! I am happy to report that, that Mission is Accomplished. We worked ourselves to near exhaustion and called it an evening about 8:00. After gardening and the garage I was totally whipped.
Saturday the boys whipped the garage into shape, I went to my first book club meeting. We read Copper Star by Suzanne Woods Fisher. It was a great book and she came out and spoke to our group at a Bible Book Store in Turlock. My friend Esther and her cousins put on a beautiful little spread of goodies and it was just a really relaxed and enjoyable couple hours.
In the evening our friends the Kinseys came over for hotdogs, mashed potato salad, chips and a few leftover levant sandwiches from the book club. They brought a couple pies and the kids swam all evening long. Again, really relaxing nice evening.
This morning, we all got up and took Frank to the Oakland airport. We had a nice breakfast/lunch at Mimi's and took him on out to the airport. He will be gone for four days this week, so it was nice to spend all the time with him we could. We went to the Gap outlet and Old Navy and got the kids a couple of summer necessities.
We are finally home and the kids are doing some studying.
Have a good week.
Comments
Sounds like such a productive weekend.
Hugs to all,
Cathi