Working for the Weekend

During a morning meeting at work, one of my co-workers said Mark and I should stop working so hard on the weekend. 

Nearly every muscle in my body was aching from the two days of hard work at the house and from last week's regiment of running and Insanity. I was inclined to agree with her. 

But, we accomplished so much it's hard not to feel pretty good about that.

We met out new neighbor. He'll probably eat my plants, but Grover will test how fast he can run at some point I'm sure.

Friday night was all fun and games until the dogs spilled my red wine all over the couch. Luckily, Mark has some sort of cleaner that got that right out. But I was not happy about it. At least Grover felt sorry.

Saturday morning I ditched Mark for a bit to meet Kristie on the River's Edge Trail. She's my new running buddy and I'm pretty excited about it. Even if a deer nearly gave us both a heart attack (to be fair, the deer was probably more startled) and we decided to turn around rather than see if we could pass a snake on the trail. I've decided to attempt another half marathon this year and Kristie is just getting back into running. It's so much more fun with friends! Plus, it was a beautiful day!

Then we got to work securing materials and supplies. We also picked up a watering can that was close to the one I really wanted and only $10. 

We made some progress on installing the invisible dog fence, but the mosquitos got to be too much so we gave up for the night. That project is moving to high priority since we really need to train the dogs not to run through the fence so they can take advantage of their new domain. 

On Sunday, we got super serious. Mark started tilling the area we're going to start our garden/farm in. For now, we're going small and will expand depending on how it goes. I'd been feeling very overwhelmed by projects, so while he did that I finally finished the chalkboard project I started months ago. I'll do a full step by step post on that later this week. But it felt really good to have something actually completed. I missed a spot with the tape, so might sand it to clean it up, but otherwise, it's finished!

Yet another trip to the Home Depot since Mark wasn't happy with the selection or prices when we were there at 8 p.m. the night before. But, with less than $40 of lumber, Mark built our new compost bin while I turned soil by hand for what felt like hours and hours. I'll post the how-to on that one too later this week and updates on the garden. For now, it looks like this.

And while we've been working, Grover found a new hideout spot. See him?