Weekend Report

Overall, a nice weekend. Perhaps slightly boring, but in a good way.

My husband and son made good progress on building a wood shed. It is very impressive (and big)! Husband loves doing it – it’s like therapy (working outside, having something to show for your work, making something new – all very satisfying). Our son, I suspect, does not love construction work quite as much, but he does enjoy the bragging rights – showing it off and saying “Dad and me built this!” He is very proud of the work they have done.

I was nowhere as productive. I puttered around doing some cooking, baked a sourdough beet bread, read quite a bit. I did get 2 nice things accomplished – de-cluttering our bedroom and organizing the mud room. The bedroom looks much better – there were too many papers, knick-knacks, and junk accumulating on all the available surfaces. The mud room needs additional shelves and better storage, but I give myself an “A” for (finally) going through all the shoes and putting away out-of-season stuff, sorting through out-grown stuff (keep vs donate vs throw-out… there were a few pairs of cleats and I have no idea at this point if they were for baseball or soccer), and moving stuff to the attic where we have the “donate” boxes. Those boxes definitely need to take a trip to Goodwill soon…

 

The highlight of the weekend was our hike. We found new trails nearby!!! Miles and miles of new, unexplored trails! We probably did about 3 mi round-trip. Part of the trail went near small farms – there were goats!!! There were some new condos nearby, which got us thinking that the farmland would be eventually sold off and made into new developments. There were streams, and trees, and birds, and the kids were singing on top of their lungs “Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!” because they’ve been reading Pippi Longstocking and just watched Pirates of the Caribbean. The trail we started on that snaked around farmland connected to another trail on a preserve that had a completely different feel (more like a forest). We loved it. All the kids loved it – they want to go back in the spring and summer (because stream, catching frogs, etc, etc).