A Labor of Love?

Well at least a labor of love for good food! I spent the whole day (literally from when I woke up at 8:30am till after 10pm) in my yard. Thankfully mom can and helped me several times. Firstly we finished planting and weeding the west and south sides of the house that have the planters, then we laid weed barrier around plants and topped it all off with the rubber mulch. Looks nice if I do say so myself!

We even planted a walnut tree so hopefully someday there will be shade and yummy nuts!

Then we went on errands to find garden plants! We ended up getting tomatoes, beans, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, cantaloupe, pumpkins, lettuce, spinach, onions, assorted herbs and I am sure I missed something. A few things like strawberries and peas it is too late to put in this year, but I will look for them in the fall and get them ready for next year.

When we got back I learned how to use Dad's edger and edged my lawn (which Scott was so sweet as to mow on Wednesday) and then got to work on the garden! I spent another five hours tonight tilling the soil (literally!) and planting! I am sooooooooooooo sore, but I am excited to start getting yummy food to cook with and do fun stuff with. Scott helped me to some shoveling and then I went after it until way past dark.

Now I am going to treat myself to a long soak in the tub with chocolate and a good book, followed by some yoga stretches in the hopes that I can still move in the morning. I will let you know about that tomorrow.

(I will be adding pics in the morning; they don't really work now in the dark!)

TV vs Computer

As Scott and I were watching Jay Leno the other night, the funniest commercial come on. Not only did we actually watch the entire commercia,l we rewound the recording and saw it a second time. It was halarious. I am not a Connan O'Brian fan at all, but this was too funny to pass up.

And yes, I thought the irony of sharing this on a blog was too good to pass up too.

Hope it makes you laugh.

What To Say?

I have been so busy lately that I don't always know what in my life is really worth blogging about....

I am still loving my work, even though it stresses me out much of the time. Otherwise much is still the same in my life, day to day, not much seems notable. Scott has been a huge help this spring mowing the grass every week! He so spoils me, I am extremely lucky to have such a great brother and roomie in him.

However, when thinking on events I would like to share I had to make not of a wonderful event I attended with much of my family. On May 12 I got to go and see Celtic Women in concert in SLC at the E Center. Matt and Heather and I actually even did dinner on the way, and had a great chat carpooling together.

I cannot describe how beautiful the music and staging were. I have been to several concerts but this will be on the top of my list for quite some time I am sure. After much sweat and tears (and several hours I wondering if my time should be better spent) I finally figured how to post to YouTube videos here to share. So here it goes, two I really like that show just a smidge of how amazing the show was.

This one is sort of a highlight of the show

This one was written especially for the Celtic Women and is a wonderful example, showing off their vocal ranges and as well Maidred's fiddling.

Big Sisters!

So this is suppose to be about me...but I have to be a big sister and brag about my great brothers occasionally too. As requested, I didn't go to Shawn's robot competition this last Wednesday. But, he did so great! They took second and so didn't have to take the final! Cool huh!
Fox 13 did an interview with Shawn and his group. They were the only ones to make the long distance shot! So here is the link to the news article if ya want to check it out! His robot is the big red one that makes the long shot, he worked lots of hours and stressed lots about this; in the end a great result...so great job Shawn your big sis is so impressed.