Saturday morning we awoke and my husband went fishing and I had some time to watch the birds, journal and pray before the kids awoke.  While journaling, my husband calls me.  He found 4 chairs on the roadside AND he was agreeable to picking them up for me.  We are desperately in need of kitchen chairs being that we only have 2 and a long bench.  He brought them home and one was an odd chair, they were not really my style (very 70s pine).  After breakfast we headed out into the yard.  Yesterday was in the high 70s and not a single cloud.  After 2 months of almost all rain and clouds I needed that…badly. 

Whilst thinking about what to do with the chairs, I began digging up the yard to level out that area, plant some things and put down some grass.  I began to find that someone had buried garbage.  I got curious and distracted by pretending to be an archeologist.  I determined that I would not make a good archeologist because I shoveled right through a ceramic something.  By this time I had a hole about 6’ X 3’ and 3’ deep.  I decided to bury some of the scrap wood my husband had piled next to the shed that he’d been meaning to take to the dump for the past 2 years.  Then I shoveled all the dirt back over and leveled it out and planted.  By that time I had determined that I would paint the chairs black and that they would be very nice like that.  So I cleaned up the chairs and began painting.  I got a coat on 2 chairs and ran out of paint. 

My husband came home from fishing and had caught 2 trout, one of which was tagged.  Even after removing the tag, the fish was alive and kicking.  So we put him in our pond and revived him.  The girls named him Nemo.  Nemo seeped very happy.  That is until, unbeknownst to us, Nemo jumped out of the pond, landing on the rocks in the sun, effectively committing suicide.  *sigh*, oh Nemo, being a big fish in a small pond isn’t that bad of a place to be.  Nemo was buried under one of our rose bushes.  My husband noticed there was another chair out so I walked down to check and would you just know it…it matched!  Now we have 4 matching chairs.   

My husband then took my 20 year old truck to inspection and it PASSED.  It better pass bc we did about $800 worth of work to it, but all the same, it passed.  He fixed his truck too so that will pass next week.  He also fixed my trellis which bc the parts that stick in the ground got snapped off during a bad wind storm last spring and its been crooked ever since.  He also drilled the holes in the aluminum tent poles that I salvaged to fix my umbrella style clothesline, so I fixed the clothesline and restrung it, which was no small task. Then I planted lettuce garden and a tea garden while the temperature rose.  The girls ended up in the kiddie pool splashing around.  That kept them contained and busy. 

Afterwards my husband announced that our tax return had been wired into our account and this is the first year that it was not already slated to pay something or another.  He suggested going out to eat but then I suggested he go buy a new grill and something special to go on it, and while he was picking up the grill, he could pick me up some more paint to finish up those chairs.

He returned with a grill, porterhouse steaks and shrimp, so we had that with salad and sweet potatoes for supper.  Putting together the grill took him a little longer than he’d planned but I was able to get the chairs painted.  We threw the bone to our dog, Pax. 

After church Sunday, still our old church, and I honestly still do not want to leave but that is a story for another day, we went to the Somerset Free4All.  I scored bigtime:  Sully from Monster’s Inc. (Tabi’s favorite movie), set of twin sheets NWT, open package containing 2 ruffled 2t panties, 2 24 month swimsuits, cool throw pillow NWT, a wool sweater, some beaded hemp necklaces, brand new dishtowel, sewing box (the kind that hinges and folds open and out on both sides, also brandy new), 2 binders (a bit dusty but needed),  2 sets water wings, plastic shoebox NWT, travel mug NWT, water bottles for the girls, a laminated practice writing tablet, visible woman anatomy kit with option parts to simulate pregnancy (not yet put together and sealed in plastic, this is very cool but I think we will wait until winter to do it, maybe even next year bc it will take lots of supervision), 6 boxes green dye we will use to revive some curtains, and a bunch of books and some classical music tapes (bc the Z doesn’t have a cd player).