Wow, where did the week go? It was so full of errands - helping Beckie with her car repair (dropping off/ picking up), getting our oil changed, getting more dog food from Open Door (that is a 30 minute trip one-way), buying groceries, teaching lessons. We had the temple Tuesday morning, I had pottery Thursday afternoon. Each day seemed non-stop. I guess I should be grateful we are healthy enough to do all that we do.
Saturday was a fun day with the Southerlands minus Emily who had two photo shoots. We want to eliminate some of our front lawn and plant ground cover instead. Removing sod is quite a task and I found a DIY YouTube that looked "simple" enough but it also required manpower so I enlisted Joe and Noah to help. And, of course Lucy, Quinn, and Larkin came along. Quinn also proved to be quite helpful. Steve and I compiled all the necessary supplies and we thought we could make light work of this sod removal project. Ahem....well....we didn't plan on the fact that our sod would be so hard to cut through with the circular saw that the YouTube video said to use. Mud and grass kept getting clogged in the blade so ultimately, the sod had to be cut with a flat shovel hand tool we happened to have (thanks to Virgil and Iola's garden tools we inherited!) It turned out to be quite challenging and we only were able to cut a fraction of what we wanted to do. But, at least it was a start and now with weather getting nicer, Steve and I will just have to to it slowly throughout the next couple of weeks. I was able to give Noah, Lucy, and Quinn piano lessons, they stayed for homemade pizza and a fun time in the backyard with the firepit and eating s'mores. We had an old tattered American flag that needed to be retired so Noah was quite happy to do the task.
In spite of the fact that last Friday was VERY COLD and we had snow flurries, things are starting to grow. I gave Kyle and Micah some peonies from our Columbia house before we moved and then, when they sold their house here in Saint Louis, I re-collected them for my backyard here and I am delighted that they survived the second move and they are coming up!
Spring brings back birds. Canada Geese, however, are with us all year round and Saturday morning, when Steve and I went to help clean the meetinghouse, there was a goose honking at us from the roof!
Silly goose...
I really don't have much else to write about. Steve and I watched the Johnny Depp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and we both decided we should read the book to compare and contrast that movie with Willie Wonka. We also watched a sweet movie on Prime called Running For Grace last night. We are driving to Columbia later this afternoon with Emily to hear Elise sing in the Columbia Stake Easter Cantata. Looking forward to that!
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