weekend update......

ok, so this weekend had been a blur.......what with my weekends beginning at about 1:30 pm on fridays.......so much to do, so little time........i stopped and bought 3 flats of annuals on my way home from harrodsburg on friday.......burgundy pansies, yellow marigolds, and a low white plant that had no name but wasn't dusty miller.......and i planted these in all of my outdoor boxes, bins and urns........in addition to moving lambs ear and other assorted perennials......scw went out to celebrate a significant birthday in lexington......acw and his lovely girlfriend showed up for supper.......on to saturday morning.......where upon i still managed to do some weeding in between fits of inertia......until we all jumped in the car to drive to concinnati for the remnants of a bridal shower for the niece born just as i was starting to date my spouse in 1980.....we brought her an assortment of infant socks when she was born ....as directed by my late motherinlaw..this time a check was all that was required........lots of family were on hand......great food.....good to see everybody...late to bed.....my brotherinlaw greg has an outdoor firepit for entertaining...but it was too cold and the smell of burning wood too offending....and thus we stayed inside and watched indepedence day instead.......ah well.......this morning i was the first out of bed...and downstairs to have a breakfast of leftovers......excellent chicken salad and macaroni salad with premium squeeze orange juice....life doesn't get much better........i started feeling congested....and no wonder.....our car was covered in goldish green pollen when we left for home........for more work.......i painted 8 french-garden style folding chairs.......and weeded part of the brick walk....weeding a walk is a task that requires the utmost in patience......one wants the baby-toes succulent to thrive, whilst wishing that the weeds and errant lamb's ear, violets, wild strawberries, lilies, and other assorted weeds would fail and die.......the old saying is so true....one man's weed is another mans perennial........i was pulling out lambs ear hand over fist.....but couldn't begin to part with blooming violets that had taken root between my paving stones.......i also refuse to pull any plant i do not recognize......or anything i want to take hold....like moss, this babytoe kind of succulent.......amongst others........i finished the paint job with green spatters everywhere........and since oil-based paint doesn not come off easily....i can still see traces in my fingernails, as well as a few spots on my legs and feet.........the chairs are precious to me.......not only because they look so parisian...but also because they fold up and stow away for the winter so nicely.......maybe they are dry enough to move to the deck......as mentioned on numerous occassions....my idea of a good day involves coffee in one of those chairs, on the deck, while the mist is rising off of the creek......with the newspaper in hand......and planty of time to tarry before work..........tomorrow morning?........