Sunday, I need a nap

    

     Grandpa and Schmills (William) eating S'mores.  We had a rip roaring weekend and it is not over. Daughter#2 and family arrived about 4:30 Friday afternoon.  I was just finishing up a suit that came in at the last minute, after get a very good start on 8 pairs of girls baseball pants which I will finish on Wednesday next week.

     My son-in-law brought his large pressure washer and did our stairs and entire driveway it took him hours. It looks so good.  D#2 and I had to go and get Schmills a bike helmet and he chose this one.  He wore it all through the store.

     We also bought feeder fish for the pond and I need to get some pond cleaning plants but that did not happen. My house work was good enough and not done or perfect but we had a nice dinner later on Friday and then I made overnight yeasted waffles the next morning for the crew.  I also froze several for later.  S'mores were our go to snack for the day.

     I worked in the yard on a project or two did not get them all done but enough to feel sore and satisfied. Daughter had a nice nap and soak in the tub while we ran around with the grandson.  We put out the small pool and put two feeder fish in it and he played and played.

     As we were coming home from church today I asked Hubs if he had put the fish back in the pond and he said no.  I was out there in my heels and dress scooping them out of the pool so they could go back to the shady pond with food.  Poor darlings. I will get out later today and scoop out much of this water to water the flower boxes out back, before I dump the rest into the garden. Water is so expensive here.

 Schmills in his dads muck boots.  Too cute.  He wore these for about an hour and we laughed the whole time.  What a character.

Hubs and I were able to get most of the garden weeded.  It is a constant effort.  We still have a list of trees and shrubs to remove and upper flower beds to weed.  Never ending. Look at that lettuce!

 I put in a new flower bed where the ivy was on the shed and completed the french drain  with lava rock.  I had the scallop bricks in a pile around the chicken coop.  It is too narrow here to plant perennials like hostas.  It is full shade so I will make due with inpatients. The other flower beds around the house will remain torn up until we paint.

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 I think this looks good and will be easy to care for.  See how the water can drain away from the house and under the shed out into the downward yard?  We are always looking for ways to shoot water away from the house.

See how white the stairs and driveway are?  This was so much work and I am so grateful to my son-in-law for his willingness to do this.

     At about 5:00 in the afternoon of this long day of playing and planting and weeding and working we loaded up the bikes and headed for the old railroad bike trail up by Julietta Idaho.  We biked 5 miles up the railroad grade into another town Kendrick, we stopped for ice cream and Schmills played in the park and then 5 miles back down to go home home on jello legs. I found a nickle in the middle of the road in Kendrick right by the ice cream store.  Woo Hoo! You can bet I jumped off my bike to retrieve it.  The family were laughing as we had run over many small snakes on the trail and they could not believe I would get off my bike for a nickle.

     Daughter and family went over to another family member for the night and we just laid around the rest of the evening.  We were tired.

     Tonight I am taking the dog over to a sitter and tomorrow early Hubs and I will drive to Mc Call, Idaho about 3 hours away and meet Daughter #1 and her two boys.  She has to present at a prosecutors conference. But she does not start until Late Tuesday.  So we will have fun in the resort town and swim with the kids att he hotel and then late Tuesday we will take them back to our place and they will stay with us for a couple of days and we will return them to their mom on Friday.  It is a lot of driving to spend time with grand kids but it is also a relief for D#1's full time live in care giver. Plus I get to see all three of my grand kids in the same week.  SCORE!

     I am going to now take a nap and then go over to lil sis's and water her flowers and look in on her cats.  When I get up I want to spread some more bark, and empty the swimming pool.

Have a restful and peaceful Sabbath.

Kim