Tired and Sore (and Impulse Buying)

I worked swings (2nd shift) this past week to include Saturday, but Sunday we made a lot of good progress towards our outdoor projects.  I got the hanging flower brackets mounted to the deck railing so we can hang the tomato plants (we tried hanging them from below the deck but they were too big of a pain to water from above or below).  Finished digging up the scraggly bushes, but I still need to carry them over to the trash can side of the house and cut them down in size so we can put them in the garbage cans.  Candice started planting flower bulbs.  We started pulling up the "anti weed tarps" which are only good for keeping the plants you wand to grow from being planted - weeds seem to flourish through them.  We removed the ragged "rock border" to the front flower garden and moved some trapezoidal shaped bricks to take their place in an actual smooth line.

I also turned the sprinklers on.  Just in time for a cold snap today and tomorrow, but it looks like it shouldn't be too bad one day dips to 30 degrees for a couple of hours, but I can aleviate that easily without having to re-blow out the heads.  I also adjusted some of the heads to water the flower gardens out front too.

Today, I'm paying for it with all kinds of soreness all through my body.

The town of Erie has an annual program where they will reimburse residents up to $300 for the purchase of trees if bought through certain nurseries.  We should be getting a white oak tree which is going to cost about $350 to plant in the back yard and provide some shade on the back of the house.  It had looked like our planned purchase of cherry trees was going to have to wait until at least next year.  that is until we went to Home Depot last night to purchase blue lights for the outside lights for Autism Awareness Day.  Candice said "should we check to see if they have any cherry trees?"  I sighed because every tree I'd looked at in the previous week was expensive and I didn't think we could fit them in our budget.  BUT I was curious, so we went into their tree area and sure enough, they had lots of them for $24 apiece.  We bought two and had fun driving them home (Candice had to sit in the back and make sure the hatch didn't slam down and chop into the tree sections that hung out the back of our Santa Fe).  We still need to but several long posts for stability (especially given the winds in Erie), but should be planting them this weekend.

I finished one of the kitten coffins.  Still have to finish gluing and add hinges and the latch to the other one.  We'll probably bury the kittens that didn't make it later this month.