Memorial Day Weekend Part 1 - Green Fuzz

The kids are spending this week at their grandparents so Jeremy and I have a whole week to ourselves!  You know what that means, right?  That's it!  We can get tons of work done!  Wait, was that not what you were thinking?  Clearly you think you are reading someone else's blog... 

The long weekend was packed full, so I’m going to post it in 2 posts (look for the second one tomorrow). 

First, the green fuzz.  The grass we planted a week or so ago has come up quite well.  There is now a nice stand of green fuzz in all the seeded areas.  With a little luck (and a lot of watering) hopefully the whole yard will look like this in another week or two! 

The weekend started Friday with getting Mom’s truck cleaned up and ready for Scott and the kids to drive it to Mom’s Friday afternoon.  Once that was done and the rain had stopped, we took a load of clay from the former raised walkway under the maple tree out to the farm.  Unloading it was heavy, muddy work from the rain the night before.  Unfortunately, it didn’t look like it had rained at the farm at all.

The kids and Scott were on their way about 3:00 and Jeremy was still at work.  What’s a girl to do with the house to herself on a beautiful afternoon?  Clearly, I needed to get more work done!  I reshaped the planting bed underneath the maple tree and moved all the extra mulch up into the new bed.  After that, I was about beat.  Jeremy came home late on Friday and we didn’t do much of anything else.

Maple bed - picture taken after paths had been leveled and wormwood was taken out

Saturday morning, Jeremy and I worked for about 4.5 hours to get the side yard leveled.  Jeremy ran the tiller to break up the soil in the former chicken run while I raked and moved the dirt to different places in the yard.  We had about half the side yard leveled when we called it good at 1:00.  Saturday evening was my end-of-class potluck for my childbirth class and we fired up the cob oven for pizzas.  That took the rest of the afternoon and evening, although we went at a significantly slower pace than normal.

Jeremy working the tiller - this little guy ran a LOT this weekend!

Sunday we took mostly off.  Jeremy played in a game, we went to Sunday school and I taught the last class in this childbirth series - nothing too physically demanding which was a nice relief.  When Jeremy got home from the game, we decided to try and get the bulk of the side yard seeded since it was so close already.  Another pass over the chicken run with the tiller and some more raking and the side yard was leveled up to the maple tree.  We got it seeded and straw spread as it was getting dark Sunday evening. 

(Picture taken on Monday morning before we started work again)

Stay tuned for what we did on Monday and what’s coming up with the rest of the week!