Now THAT'S What I'm Talking About!

A lovely Mother's Day weekend. Despite the fact that Max came home sick on Friday (and is still home sick today) and much screaming ensued...

We went to the Farmers Market on Saturday morning. Oh! Farmers market, how I love thee! Let me count the ways: peaches, carrots, broccoli, spring onions, blackberries, homestead cheese, milk, baguette, ciabatta rolls, greenhouse tomatoes, Jess & Gilbert, Jeremiah & Meredith, and so much more...

And, I now officially have a back yard! That's right! It's no longer an over-grown trash heap! Happy Day! We got out there and cleaned all the JUNK that the former residents left (well, it's not really gone...we have to get a haulable dumpster for that) and mowed the knee-deep grass (Clint did that part). I never understood people who used their backyards as trash heaps...I mean people! I am talking about tires, a broken lawn mower, a broken wheel barrow, an old bath tub, windows worth of broken glass, hardened bags of cement, sheet metal, limestone, coke cans, beer cans, old boxes, wrappers...and then the old fence that we tore down. It was enough to drive a person (and 2 doggies) mad. But now you can actually walk back there, and play, and we can plant a garden, and...oh, the possibilities! But there is still lots of work to do...bamboo that must DIE, an entire side yard of trash that must go, raking, more trash collection, garden digging, chicken pen creating, and killing of fleas and ants...the work is never done.

And, after all that loveliness...this morning, my car won't start. Not a click, not a beep, nothin'. The battery we just replaced 2 weeks ago is utterly and completely dead. Clint had to take my car to O'Rielly's to test the alternator (which was bad, and draining the battery), which means I had to miss my first day of my contracting gig and we got to spend MORE money on my car. Thank GOD for Google small business apps...I was actually able to work a bit from home!