What I Did On My 4-day Weekend (or Who Am I and What Have I Done With The Lazy Gardener?)

It could have gone one of 2 ways: Take 4 days off and sit around the house doing not much of anything except squishing ants in the kitchen (for serious) or take 4 days off and kick some serious boo-tay.

Friday:

• Took the dogs on a longer-than-usual walk
• Went down to visit my grandfather and my cousin and her son who were visiting, too. Had lunch at Hometown Buffet. Didn't over-eat for once (although I could fill up on their fried okra, banana pudding, and chocolate pudding cake.)
  
• Braved Winco for some lunch staples and the rest of dinner ingredients and the pet supply store for kennel bedding.
  
• Mowed the front lawn after foraging in Loafland.
• Cooked Cal an extra-nice dinner after an extra-hard week for him.
  
• Took a walk with Cal and the dogs after dinner
• Folded some laundry

Saturday:

• Slept in a little bit (which means 7:30 in our house)
  
• Cleaned up in the kitchen and started to reorganize the pantry
  
• Finally planted some seeds in egg cartons to put in the garden window (I know I know...shouldn't I have done this a month or 2 ago? The answer, of course, is yes. )
• Weeded the north-facing shade bed
• Worked with Cal to get the vegetable beds ready for planting, which included getting the clover taken care of (the soil is super-great now)
• Discovered that if you listen to the David Bowie station on Pandora long enough, you will hear Billy Idol. More than once. And Devo.
• Mowed the backyard
• Had a (mostly) one-sided conversation with some worms. Successfully convinced them that the dirt flower bed was a more comfortable home for them than underneath a root-bound Escallonia in a pot on top of a concrete slab.
  
• Watched Cal wash my car (more exhausting than you'd think)
• Got a sunburn on my shoulder (yes, I was wearing sunscreen. I missed a spot.)
  
• With Cal, finished seating one of the big (about 4' x 4') planter boxes he made last year
• Went to The Lucky Lab to join my friend Scooter for a birthday beer (his birthday, not mine)

Sunday:

• Finished cleaning the kitchen
• Cleaned out the inside of my car--Cal Shop-Vac'ed it for me
• Did a little bit of weeding
• Cal and I cleaned out the garage (a huge task, let me tell you) (It's almost unbelievable some of the things we saved: an empty yarrow seed envelope? A pair or work gloves with holes in all the fingers?)
• Ran a couple of errands with my mom and then had dinner--our first time firing up the grill this year!
• Discovered that listening to the Led Zeppelin station on Pandora makes us fit in almost too well in our neighborhood

(I definitely feel like I accomplished less on Sunday than I did on Saturday.)

Monday:

• Losing...steam...11 in the morning...haven't done...anything. Except eat breakfast.
• I...
• Um...
  
• Oh, yes. I made a chocolate buttermilk cake with some leftover buttermilk I had.
• Made some stew
• Apparently, the day revolved around food.

The weather had turned from 70 degrees and sunny all weekend to 55 degrees and rainy and windy on Monday. I felt forced to stay inside. Actually, it was nice after so much activity Saturday and Sunday.

That, friends, concludes my 4-day weekend. It's back to work in the morning (and on Wednesday, a beer school course with the fun and fabulous Jamie Emmerson of Full Sail Brewing!) (I know...my job sucks.)