Relaxing under a Shade Tree

The only thing sitting under a shade tree around here are my implements of destruction. The task-master says: "You're here for one reason and one reason only... to work!" Welcome to Gulag Number Nine!



Todays agenda at Gulag Number Nine:

1) Wake up at way to stinking early AM. Have the most painful cramp in the calf of my leg that I have ever experienced. Eight hours later, I still have a limp I'm hiding as a result of the darned thing. Talk about painful!

2) Go to work but skate out early around 1:30 PM. It's Memorial day weekend after all. Three days of labor in the yard are up on deck. Sweet!

3) Stop at a home improvement store on the way home to buy concrete for the path and mortar to set the stones in place for the bench foundation.

4) Make a trip to a garden nursery to buy a couple of plants. Before leaving, purchase a cubic yard of compost for landscaping.

5) Unload the cubic yard of compost as it rains on my thinning hair. Curse you thinning hair!

6) Enjoy a visit from brother Lyle and my Mom. :D Mom always has a big smile on her face!

7) Dig up two square meters of sod from the yard using that trusty ol' pick.

8) Mix up a batch of concrete to add another segment to the garden path. Yellow brick road it isn't!

9) Take a few fleeting moments to add a plant to the landscape - a very funky looking sedum.

10) Collapse in exhaustion and hope tomorrow is slow to arrive. :D

Lesson to be learned? Life never stops!