Saturday Summary

Duff and I were up and out of the house on our way to Lowes. He was bound and determined to get plants in the garden!

Not much left this late in the season, but it's a good thing we have mild weather most of the year so we will just do our harvesting late summer and fall. We got great tomato plants and sunflowers and then several herbs: cilantro, parsley, chives, rosemary, and more basil. Christine had seeds from her YW project so she and Duff are planting beans and zuchinni on Monday.

After Duff got everything tilled up, Miguel and his crew came and built us some planters and we put pea gravel around them. We wanted to try something a little different than just planting in the ground. Our soil here is very clayish and needs so much amending for garden growing. We understand that the snails won't slug across it to get to the veges. Now we just have to keep the bunnies out! I put new eyes on the owl that stands watch in the center scaring away any potential poachers.

Then it was car washing time. Christine and Meredith worked hard and the cars look fantastic plus the girls got some sun to enhance their summer glow!

Weekly grocery shopping. Enough said! But at least it's done for another week! I can't believe how much groceries have gone up.

Meredith and Christine went to the Dove pool to swim some laps.

I finished preparing the RS lesson for tomorrow. Then jumped in the shower and got ready for the get together at the Brennans to say good-bye to the Woffindens before they leave for Brazil.

Arlen is now the chief legal counsel for the church in Brazil. Annette made some delicious lasagne with all the trimmings. It was beautiful and we dined al fresco poolside. It was nice to be together with the previous stake presidency and also the new one. Arlen and Debi answered all our questions about their new assignment. It is very different than when they were the mission presidents before. They are salt of the earth people and we will miss them.

We are down to 13 days until the wedding. I'm hoping to have everything finished by the end of the week so we can just enjoy the week of the wedding. Haha! We shall see.....