Like Jennifer H, yesterday was a big gardening day for us. I got the rest of my nursery plants planted, the lawn mowed and some trees pruned.

Today, I almost took a picture of our garage but didn't want to look silly in front of my brother and Mom and Dad, both our vehicles are in the garage for the first tine in weeks. My brother is here picking up his table saw and the other items in our garage, so David put everything away (miracle) and their is room for everything!

Tonight, in honor of my brother and nieces visit we had homemade berry pie, a wonderful salmon dinner and top it off with an apple pie. Tomorrow I am planning on surprising my brother with one of his favorites...German sour cream twists...for breakfast.

Pictures soon, I promise! And completed projects too...my parents are off to Germany for 2 weeks so my taxi duties will die down for a while.

Gardening

Yesterday after I took my Mom to the Chiropractor, we stopped at a local nursery (Knollwood) to look at plants. Every house that I have ever co-owned with my husband has had a clematis. Yesterday at Knollwood I bought my Dayton house clematis....an indigo sapphire. I am very excited to see it's bloom color!

When I got home with my plants (clematis, bee balm, guarda, delphinium, etc...) I mentioned ot my Dad that I needed a trellis for my new clematis. So he took one of the old decking boards and ripped it into 1/2 inch strips (all connected at the bottom) and fanned the strips out into a lattice. After about an hour or so and a pint of blood (his tremor was acting up while he was using the air compressor to nail the wood to the supports!) he brought this out and we planted my new clematis :)

So (I didn't take a before picture) I shaped all the huge overgrown bushes (boxwoods I think) into little mounds for "anchors" (because I can't throw a good plant away) and scattered my new flowering plants between. One garden down...one big one to go.

My brother is driving up from TN tomorrow morning to come and get his loot from Mom and Dad's truck. And he is a lanscaped architect. So I plan on picking his brain for ideas in the front. It is full sun and a DISASTER! The people who owned out house before us never gardened and just left all the contractor grade plants in for the last 16 years. The contractor grade plants are all too big and weirdly placed. I'll have to take a front garden before picture...

Middle School

Hannah Einstein. Yesterday at school all the 6th graders, I mean all billion of them, dressed up as their person for Biography Fair 2009. There were your Magic Johnsons, Annie Oakleys, Walt Disneys, etc. Hannah was Al.

Got No Time

Remember those "Mom's Taxi" bumperstickers? And remember how we have all joked that it feels like all we do is shuttle our kids from this to that? Turn about is fair play is guess. I have not done a THING this week but run errands and shuttle MY Mom around. Doctors appointments...shoe shopping...Walgreens.

Tomorrow? Maybe some sewing? I have a wrap skirt in green polka dots cut out and I am dying to sew it.

Good Grief

Hannah decided about 3 weeks ago that she needed a fish. So she and her cousin Katie went to Meijer and spent 23 cents or something on a fish. Well H's fish J.J. was stuck to the bottom of the bowl yesterday when she got home from school and she cried and cried and cried.

After a quick distracting trip to the dentist Hannah came home and buried her fish, fashioned a cross of stick and wires, made a tombstone and laid flowers on the grave.

Nothings

Got this book today in the mail...since the local library didn't carry it.

At first glance, it looks okay. I only liked a few on the patterns so I may just copy them and resell the book on Amazon.

Had another job interview today, I killed. If I could only interview somewhere that paid me a ton of money working only a few hours. Hmm.

Busy day tomorrow with Bubba's field trip and H's dental appointment, so no time to sew so far! I am itching to make the green dotted wrap skirt I have in the que!

Weekend Wrap Up

Very nice weekend here in Ohio. We had new friends (to me) over for a hot dog and hamburger BBQ at our house on Saturday night and laughed and laughed...felt at home at a new church prospect on Sunday morning...welcomed Papa and Nana into our new casa on Sunday evening...ate yummy BBQ at City BBQ on Sunday night...moved some bushes around in the yard on Monday morning...bought a couple of 88 cent McCalls patterns at Hancock Monday afternoon... and made grilled Cuban sandwiches and wonderful corn on the cob for an early dinner today and hung out and played cards into the evening.

A great weekend!

Suckcess

I've mentioned how much it sucks (for lack of a better word) to be church hunting. Well, we actually had success today. I'm not going as far as to say that the church we went to was a perfect fit, but today we ALL enjoyed the church we attended! The music was AWESOME, the people were really nice, the facility was wonderful, and the preaching...the preaching was great. Success! It really changes your day and outlook to go somewhere that you are loved and accepted and really liked!

The parental units arrived this afternoon safely with their satanic spawn dog Rosie. Rosie has been well behaved so far, and to celebrate their arrival we all went out to City BBQ (one of my local American-it being Memorial Day Weekend and all- fav's) and sucked some Deelicious BBQ down the ole pie hole. Ymmmm.