A super-productive weekend

On Friday I put 10 mostly hardened tomato plants out into their summer pots. It was a little early but I think the cold weather is finally over and I am hoping that all the rain we are getting will help them along. This year we are doing 3 heirloom types and a not yet chosen standard type for the salsa garden. This year a salsa garden..Exciting!

Think of this puny plant set as the beginning of great things to come.

After the deck gardening was done I had planned on unpacking some more boxes. My strategy is to grab what ever box of ours (not moms) is closest to the door and just put the stuff away or throw it out or put it into the Goodwill bag. Unfortunately the 3 closest boxes (see me trying to get around my brilliant stratagem there) were all kitchen boxes. On our major moving day we dropped kitchen boxes in the kitchen and mom put food and dishes away as fast as she could to keep up with our assembly line of boxes.

This was workable but left things a little chaotic. I therefore, on Friday, took everything out and labeled all the cabinets and put things away in order thus facilitating incredible ease for putting random things from random kitchen boxes away.

It was chaos I tell you!

Then Grandma and Grandpa Scearce came for a visit. The kids were so happy to see them. Kiernan kept asking if I was leaving for Grandma and Grandpa to watch him. I kept telling him "No I am here for the day".

Finally I got that he wanted me to go away. hahahaha

So there was me trying to reassure him of my presence and him wishing I were gone hahahaha.

He misses them and really wanted them to watch him again. 

Once David got home we took the truck over to Walmart and bought a wading pool and had frozen blue happy kidcicles in no time.

We finally made it back to church this week.

Megan finds church deeply exciting. Here she is about to take off.

After church it was nap time for the kids. They were exhausted and slept for almost 3 hours. We took advantage of this repose and attacked the yard with a vengeance  One of our neighbors took pity on David and his old fashioned push mower and lent us a powered mower. Kind Kind Neighbor. I cleared up some poison ivy (I am the only known nonreactive to poison ivy in the household) and cleaned out some elevated beds. I planted hot peppers in the salsa garden, transplanted the blueberry bush and the mint into the sweet stuff bed and broke up some hosta for the front walk. Here is a before shot of the front walk with bonus blueberry in pot.

Kiernan got up and wanted to do flowers. We put bulbs and Stella d'oro daylillies all around the well and he tried to use the pickaxes...terrifying.

Here is the after shot of the first hosta planting. The plan here is to put triplets of hosta in each of these spots. I am still working out which types. Probably different color/variegation patters groupings. I am now looking for small blue or purple flowering boarder plants to go on the outside of the hosta so if you have any ideas let me know. I am also about to get some beautiful Siberian iris' from Grandma Scearce. Yay.

The yard work was so satisfying. It let me work in the sun and the quiet and make a visual difference on the yard. I called my dad in the early stages because he is the landscaping expert and had a good time talking to him about the whole thing. I am hoping that he and Mary will be able to come up and see the place sometime soon.

On Sunday we finished the move. We dropped boxes off for Pammy's brother and unexpectedly dropped off Kiernan too. It wasn't until I got to Scearce's with Megan that I realized how remarkable that was. There are very very few (count them on one hand maybe) people  I would be comfortable leaving my son with but I breezed out of there without a care in the world.

While Megan slept  and Kiernan built we finished moving.

Now all is left to do is the cleaning.

I am so happy to be done with that heavy lifting. Our landlord called to compliment us and wish us well.

That man confuses me. 

Then after all of the moving was done it was off to Scearce's and the kids and dropping off the truck.

Huzzah!

In medical news my abscess' are much better and David's new one is on the mend and we are in terror of every little bug bite, scratch and pimple.

Ha