A Night Alone

Bryce has worked for the same pallet warehouse for about a year and half now. We have been so fortunate for him to have the job! His boss, James, is absolutely wonderful! Bryce is such a good worker that James pretty much lets him come and go as he pleases. It has really turned out to be a huge blessing. Recently, Bryce's role at the warehouse has changed. He is now the official pallet sorter. It's great because he will be able to do it during the summer part-time so he can keep doing it during the school year full time (not 40 hours, just every day). He does it every evening right now. This means that when I come home from work, I tend to have a lot of "me time." It is a time I have really come to appreciate since I've been married. I love to be with Bryce, but every once in a while it is nice to just have some down time when I don't have to be entertaining Bryce. (Wives, you know what I mean...husbands are like kids! Am I right?!)

Tonight when I found myself at home alone I was a little unsure of what to do with my time. All I knew was it was a beautiful day outside and I wanted to take advantage of it. I walked out on our deck and decided to take a trip around the yard. We have a beautiful yard! It is quite a nice size and now that the snow (FROM THIS MORNING) is gone it is super green! Directly around the house we have curbed flower beds. There are a lot of plants in them...what they are...I'm not quite sure yet, but I'm sure we'll find out soon ! In the front yard we have 3 trees with curbed flower beds around them. As I walked out to get the mail I noticed there were several little weeds in these front beds. I figured there was no better time to get them out of there then a beautiful evening such as this. I went right inside, changed my clothes, found me a weed bucket, and went to work. I remember one summer when my dad had me and Cole weed the garden. I swear weeding should be against child labor laws!! It is hard work! But tonight, I found it rather relaxing. It was nice to feel the cool spring air and hear the birds chirp. I weeded all of the beds!

I'm actually quite proud of myself!

~My FULL weed bucket~

~Proof of my hard work~

The beds have no weeds, dinner is in the oven, clean dishes are put away... I think it was a very productive night alone. And, I already know what I will be doing next time I find myself at home on a nice spring evening...

~The garden...my next project~

I'm so excited to have a garden! It will be fun to put some hard work into something that is mine. I think that is one of the best parts about having a home of our own. Now when we work here, we can take pride in it! I have one more task that I want to get done...

~Wierd moss like feature found in the east flower beds...will this flower? What the heck is it?!~

Find out what all the plants are that are in the beds!

Things I have learned tonight:

1. We have a beautiful, healthy yard.

2. The soil here rocks!! After all those years of having my dad complain about the crappy Garland soil, now I know what he means! Our dirt is so lovely! It is dark and does not make a rock soilid ball when you try to move it.

3. There are sure a lot of worms in our yard! I hope our kids can go find night crawlers with their dad like I did :)

4. I enjoy weeding! Who would have thought?!

5. Blogger is not very user friendly some days!