Weekends are just fantastic.
This weekend, we enjoyed a friday night game night with our friends, the Brauns. It has been TOO long since we hung out! The best part of the night was when little Elizabeth came running into my arms and playing on my lap for a few minutes. Granted, her motivation was to avoid having to go to bed, but still – it was a FIRST! She is finally warming up to her Uncle Brows.
Saturday was going to be an intense yard day, but it wasn’t to be. I got up early to attend a baptism, and when Audrey went to go pull the mower out, she saw the TruGreen people pulling away – no mowing for 48 hours! At least our weeds will die now, and we’ll hopefully have something to mow!
We decided we could still trim the bushes, but when I got my trimmer out I quickly found that all of the batteries were dead. As dead as dead could be. I guess winter likes to drain batteries? Who knew?
So we went to Plan C: clean off the back porch. We had about 10 pots of various dead vegetation on our back porch that needed to be removed and destroyed. When we were all done, we were left with a single potted tree. Kinda sad, but kinda good.
I returned to the inside world where I got laundry and dishes done while Audrey washed her car and soaked up some of the great spring sunshine. What a beautiful, allergy-filled day it was!
That evening we enjoyed Sherlock Holmes together. I thought it was a really good movie. Well played!
Sunday, I barely made it to my 6:30am meeting. A2 had to re-wake me up at 6 after I had disabled my alarm at 5:30 and fallen back to sleep. I trudged to church and put in my obligatory 8 hours.
When I finally got home, A2 suggested that we watch Star Wars Episode 3 (the only one she had never seen…) so we did! It was a miracle that she suggested it. The only greater miracle would be if she ever asked to watch The Princess Bride. Somehow I avoided falling asleep during the movie.
We took a nice walk after the movie and enjoyed some of the activity in the neighborhood. These are some of the few weeks where people here in Texas enjoy being outdoors, unless you’re an allergy sufferer in which case you still have to wait for the fall to truly enjoy nice temperatures.
Nice weather outside always turns my thoughts back to our boring back yard. On our walk, we talked about what we wanted in our back yard. We verbally designed a 20 or 30 thousand dollar back yard, and then came back to reality to know that we just needed to do something simple that we could enjoy a few times per year.
Does anyone have any landscape design skillz? We need help translating our vision to paper!
Back to work today…
We’re taking a very spiritual attitude towards our garden. We believe that as visitors to this earth, we should be respectful towards ALL living things and allow them their natural freedom to grow and flourish and find fulfillment in their existence. It’s really not our place to interfere.
(Or to put it another way, P’s works long hours and I don’t want to get dirty.)