This weekend was a rarity – one that was both relaxing and productive.
It all started on Saturday morning. While Jess was finishing up some schoolwork, I decided to make us some breakfast. Looking at what was available in our stores, I decided to make some egg and bacon sandwiches on English Muffins. They were quite tasty! After breakfast was done, we showered and headed to my parent’s house for the day. Saturday was my mother’s birthday so we all got together and spent the day with her. It was nice to just sit around and talk with the family without watching the clock or needed to be somewhere else. After about 6 hours we left and came home. We settled in for the night on the couch and watched ‘Role Models’ (hilarious!) and started the first disc of ‘Mad Men’.
Today we woke up to beautiful blue skies with more sun then we have seen in weeks. Knowing it was going to be in the 60s, I wanted to get some yard work done. Jess on the other hand, had some schoolwork she needed to get done and wanted to clean up the house a bit. I headed out before she did and started retrieving some landscape timbers I had purchased about 2 years ago and had in storage in my sister’s garage. After all 10 8ft timbers has been retrieved and relocated to my yard, I decided some lunch was in order. When I came in, I saw Jess lying on the couch. Apparently while I was gone she had gotten really sick to her stomach and had thrown up. She decided to take it today since she was not feeling well. I couldn’t have agreed more and left her be. After lunch, I decided to go to Tractor Supply to pick up a new pair of work gloves. I have a really nice pair that has apparently disappeared into thin air since I have been unable to find them for 2 weeks. Normally I wouldn’t care too much except that I got a nice 1/2in sliver in my palm while getting the timbers out of my sister’s garage. I was not willing to chance getting another one. I decided since I was a really nice day out to take Loki with me.
A few minutes later, with new gloves in hand, I started my project for the day. I was torn between working on the garden (reframing, turning it over) or coming up with a solution for Loki sneaking under our chain link fence. I decided to work on a solution for Loki. What I came up with was basically a miniature retaining wall. I got about ½ way through the project when I suddenly ran out of rebar. I thought I had enough, but I was sorely mistaken. I was then off to Lowe’s, Loki in the shotgun seat. When I got there, I saw my new store manager. She had seen Loki when he was still a puppy, so she came over and was playing with him though the car window for a few minutes. Taking Loki out of the spotlight, I we headed back into the store and I grabbed the extra pieces of rebar that I needed. About 90 minutes later, my wall was complete. I am rather happy with the way it turned out. It’s structurally sound, inexpensive to make (less than $25), and only took about 3 hours from start to finish.
After I was done, Jess finally came outside. She was starting to feel a little better, so she brought her laptop outside and did some of her schoolwork while I cleaned up the tools in the yard and reattached the chain link fence. After that, I put some chicken in the oven for dinner while I cleaned out my car and took a shower.
Afterwards, I made some vegetables and my famous fried rice. We had dinner and watched some more ‘Mad Men’.
This was one of the best weekends I have had in a long time. Now I get to start my last week at my current/old store. Hopefully everything should go smoothly and I will be able to leave with a clean conscience.
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