I've Earned My Keep This Week

It isn't yet Friday, but I already feel as though I have earned my keep. I got my front lawn finally trimmed and so for a few days I will be able to look out at my front lawn and not feel defeated. Ha. I finished taking all the weeds out of the second bed, and yesterday I took out bushel loads of "Snow-in-Summer" from the front flower bed. If I don't pull it back at the end of each summer, it will eventually take over the whole bed. I never got to it last summer, so I had to pull it out from between my irises and from the front of the bed where it was sprawling out across the sidewalk. It had already choked out my pink aubretia deltoids. They were nowhere to be found this past Spring. I pruned back hard another shrub (my pink Spirea). When I lay down mulch (hopefully tomorrow), I will take a photo. I was going to lay down mulch yesterday after lunch but suddenly realized at 1:35 that I had a doctor's appointment for 2 o'clock. I didn't have time to wash up or eat.  I just took off the really muddy working clothes I had on and put on clean ones over the dirt. I was only 8 minutes late. All the traffic lights were working in my favour. Phew.

After returning from town, I fried up some ground meat and made up four cabbage casseroles from the cooked cabbage made the day before (2 Italian and 2 Asian) I had one of them last night for dinner and lunch today. The other three are freezer meals. Tonight I will cook some tilapia with broccoli and mushrooms in a mustard cream sauce. Breakfast is nearly always an omelet. Once in a long while, I will have oatmeal, which I am allowed sparingly.

Omelet with zucchini, mushrooms and cheese.

 This morning I went out to the back yard and moved several hundreds of pounds of rock from around my pond in the centre of the yard to the top of my "mud hole" that used to be a deck. The largest, heaviest rocks are at the bottom of the incline, with the rest of the rocks fitting in like a jig saw puzzle towards the top. I will rake the gravel (when I order it) so that it fills in some of the gaps between the thinner, smaller pieces at the top of the gradient. I won't plant any ground cover until after  the stones settle in somewhat...perhaps the Spring. I am so exhausted after doing that work, but once I started, I didn't want to stop. The clay was wet again after a torrential rain yesterday, and I was caked in mud. I wanted the job DONE. So now I have showered and changed, and I want a nap on the couch. Don't ask me to do another thing today please.

Now I just have to rake and clean up the garbage before ordering in some gravel.