Dusty Weekend

This was a very fun but dusty weekend. We went to Ashland on Saturday morning (after seeing Scott's turkey) to help Greta and Nico with some sanding of their old wood floors that they discovered under the carpet they took out and to start all the seeds for our gardens that need that indoor start. (seeds finally made it) Needless to say there was a lot of dust and sawdust flying around the living room, dining room and kitchen from the sanding and a lot of dirt flying around outside because of the wind. Yikes. But we had fun. I had lots of little helpers (5 of them) when it came time to plant the seeds. Adin, Lizzy and Tristan were the ones who helped the most. It was pretty fun. Now the seed trays are all snuggled in Greta's green house germinating away.

Lizzy and I did a lot of Egg picking in the chicken coop on Sunday. She was a little tentative, but did get brave enough to pick a couple up on her own. Hopefully she'll keep up that interest when we get our own chickens in the future.

While we were gone, Scott when and picked up our new (new to us) mower from our friend Marc who no longer needs a rider with a bagging system. So when we got home on Sunday, the kids helped Daddy put the bagger on the mower and I started mowing, which was also very dusty. We are in desperate need of rain and chopping up all those dried up oak leaves was a bit dusty also. My eyes still felt like sandpaper when I woke up this morning. But I got a good start on the bagging of the leave. There is still a lot of racking that need to be done where trees came down (I'm not going to mow over all those sticks).

Rumor has it that the tree service with the stump grinder will be coming Tuesday or Wednesday. Very exciting! Then I'll be able to get those flowers moved and start the layout of the garden and fencing. I'm so excited! This could be a busy week around our house.