Full weekend

Victor/Victoria opens tonight at Workshop Theatre! We'll be going to opening night. We saw the last dress rehearsal on Wednesday, and worked the house last night for the preview audience. It's a fun show and we're looking forward to it.

There's a roller derby bout on Saturday -- it'll be a good one, and some healthy competition for the QuadSquad (although I'm sure they'll win).

Sunday will be a good bit of yard work. We've got to try to keep those neighbor's weeds from visiting us. Always fun. The botanical garden plant sale is coming soon so that'll give us something to get excited about. We kind of let the yard go a bit last year so this year we're going to wrangle it and get it looking right again.

Getting caught up

We spent the majority of the day Saturday in the yard. It's so nice to have it looking right again, cut, edged, hedges trimmed, beds redefined. I guess that's what it's like to have a nice weekend and time.

Finally cut the yard

After more than a month and way too many excuses (to the point that I wasn't buying my own excuses), I finally got the back yard cut. I had to get up at 7:45 just to get it finished and still I was overwhelmed by the heat by the end, at 9:30. The edging can wait until next week. Vacations, rain, and heat interfered with the grass cutting this past month, but this is also prime "grow like a weed" time for the grass.

It is also "baby birds in the fern" time. There are at least two baby birds in the hanging fern. It is a very wise place for a nest, except that it usually results in a dead fern since we can't water it like we should. Small price to pay, though. We'll try to get some pictures, but momma bird dive-bombed Jeni yesterday when she was checking things out, and Jeni is NOT a bird fan so this was not exciting for her.

Maggie, the smallest cat, had a new trick, which she just did. When I'm on the computer, she likes to put her stink on the tower, and bumps the button to open the CD drawer.

We're off to work on the Willy Wonka set today. The set needs to be done this week, so Jeni and I are going to chip in with our minimally-skilled hands while trying to stay out of the way.

Oh, and ironically, my last post on spam comments got five comments -- four were spam.

I really have been working in the yard

Here's proof that Jeni and I have done yard work since moving to our house. These gloves came in a two pack. I put one pair away to save until the other pair wore out. Well, they wore out two weekends ago. We were out pulling weeds like crazy when I blew through the ends of both middle fingers (maybe I was giving the finger to the weeds too much...) Either way, I broke out the other gloves to cut the grass the next day and was just amazed at the difference. Of course I knew the old gloves had worn over two seasons of yard work, but I forgot what a new pair felt like, or looked like. BTW, I don't know how I did yard work without gloves before, either.