It was a great weekend. Still have stitches in my knee until tomorrow but got out and enjoyed the beautiful weather. We went crappie fishing on Saturday. Jimmie and Charlie let me tag along. This is my kind of fishing, whether I catch any or not. It's with a reel that I can throw myself, with bait I can put on myself and you move around a lot from place to place. We went down to Clear Creek to see if we could catch any. I caught a log, a stick and something else under the water. Not a fish to be had. But there was plenty of sunshine and Peace. I'm all about that. Working on my tan. (I am 43 years old and have been advised of the risks of sunshine. I know everyone has their opinions and thoughts on the sun. I have those same ones about smoking and other bad habits but to each their own. The sun makes me feel good, it helps with my depression and definitely helps my Vitamin D levels which can always use some help. So in short, the sun makes me feel better and right now I'll take a short term fix of happy.) I did plan my outfit carefully because here in about 8 weeks I can't be having tan lines showing with my dress which is sleeveless. If you know my husband you know he rarely wears a t-shirt with any sleeves in it. First thing he does is cut off the sleeves. So my dress will meet his approval. One of us has to be sleeveless at the wedding right? After not catching anything but some sun rays we loaded up and headed in to clean up to go to cruise night.
Jimmie actually drove my jeep to Barling Cruise Night. Of course it needed gas. I had driven it that morning taking the dogs to the vet and didn't want to stop with them in there so it was just short of the gas light coming on. Got my "speech" about driving past 3 gas stations everyday on my way to and from work and not being able to stop at any of them until my gas light is on. No argument came from me because it's true. I'm guilty. I know better. And one day I'm sure I'll suffer the consequences of not having a full tank of gas and needing it. There were a lot of neat cars out there and it was nice to see family and friends.
Sunday was our "work" day. We got up early with plans to get the yard done and the flowerbeds cleaned out. We worked from 8:00 until almost 1:00. Trimming bushes (we really missed Kaleb for this), mowing, weed-eating, emptying all the old mulch, rocks and plants out of the flowerbed, planting some mums we had from Kaleb's funeral and then filling the flowerbeds up with fresh mulch. It looks better and definitely smells better around the front of our house now. So what's the first thing Goober had to do, pee in my new mulch. SERIOUSLY! Jimmie got the yard all mowed and weedeated. While he had been trimming the bushes I'd had the thought "I miss Kaleb" that was his favorite thing to do when it was yard work day (not that he liked it, but if he was going to do something it was trim the bushes into neat shapes). He'd always do the bushes. I bet neither of us had needed to do that in several years because he handled it. And that is about the only job he ever did without asking him to. I came home before and he'd taken it upon himself to redesign the bushes in front of the house. I hadn't said anything to Jimmie when I had the thought because I didn't want to make him sad if he hadn't had the same thought and it wasn't 5 minutes later Jimmie said "Damn, I miss Kaleb!" It was neat that doing that together brought us both closer to Kaleb. I know he was looking down at us thinking how much better he could have made them look.
Ryan and Alyssa came by later in the afternoon with their new puppy Marlo. They visited for the evening and we cooked some steaks on the grill then watch Jurassic World because it was Free HBO weekend on Directv. I'm not much on the Jurassic movies. I know I saw the first one, but can't say that I've seen any of the others, but it was a pretty good movie. We watched Marlo whoop up on Goober and Nash. They did great for him being so much smaller than them. They headed back to school after it was over.
Decided to try a "spaghetti pie" recipe for dinner tonight that I saw on facebook over the weekend. Came home at lunch today to "prep" the ingredients. Ok, I cooked the noodles so I could put them in the fridge for the afternoon because it called for left overs noodles. I was worried if I hadn't cooked them and cooled them off prior to fixing the pie it'd mess with the texture. Hopefully it ends up at good as it looked on facebook. If not, we'll put it on the, not our favorite, list. I'm debating making a recipe book for Tyler and Steph to have of some of the recipes we've made as a family as they grew up. They can then replicate them for their family if they so choose.
Ready to head to the dr tomorrow afternoon to get the stitches out of my knee and hopefully get a full release so I'm free to play softball if we need a player the last few weeks of the season. Still the best surgery I've ever had.
So that's a run down of a "perfect" weekend around our house. Sunshine, water, puppies and yardwork. Probably most boring blog ever.
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