Oh man, what a tiring weekend - but so productive! I started the weekend out right having dinner with my friend Christina at a new restaurant downtown called Eva. It's a Mediterranean tapas restaurant and was excellent. SLC has a cool thing they do called Dine 'O Round where you get to go to restaurants for a 3 course meal for a set price. It's a great way to check out new places. Saturday was a grueling day for us both. We both got up and swam in the morning - Rich 3000 yds and me 1200
yds. Then it was yard work for both of us. I made a trip to Home Depot for plants and mulch and spent the rest of the morning working on the new side landscape - planting and mulching for a couple of hours. We took out some grass and extended the herb garden around to the side of the yard. This all started because I wanted a table to put my drink on when I'm in my hammock. :-) For this I needed a little "patio". From there, we decided to extend around and connect to the herb garden. SO... what you see in the picture is the end of phase one. I added more thyme, oregano, sage, some chive and cilantro.. also some flowering plants, a forsythia bush and some hostas. The section on the right of the picture is where the flagtone "patio" will be that will go under the hammock and with enough room for another chair.
Rich, meanwhile, came home from his swim with the tiller and tilled the vegetable garden for a couple of hours. THEN... he went for a 3 hour 21 mile run and I went for a bike ride. When I came back I tackled a small project in the front yard, digging out grass and planting hydrangea bushes. We were both so exhausted, we ordered pizza in and later pulled ourselves off the couch to go to Dairy Queen in our PJs! :-) Sunday, I skied - yes, skied. 50 degrees, sunny and gorgeous in the mountains, while Rich toiled away for 5 hours, and about 100 miles on his TRAINER bike in the basement. I planted tomatoes, eggplant, peas and peppers to start the veggie garden, Kathy come for dinner and now we are both working toward bed! whew!
