Lewies Blog

My mother inlaw came over this weekend with my neice and spent the night.  I was constantly doing things all weekend.  Shopping for groceries, pet food, gardening supplies, and even took my neice to Toys ‘R’ Us so she could spend her allowance.  Thankfully, she didn’t spend too much time looking around at the toys.  She got a toy fishing rod with sea critters, and I found a pinwheel that she liked too.

I picked up some sand at Wal-Mart so that I could fill in some holes left behind from when I tore down an ugly fence between me and my neighbors house.  I saw some people were moving in next door with some kids and I figured it’s about time to make the neighborhood a little safer.  I also mowed most of my lawn.  I keep getting worn out when I try it out.  I ran out of gas on the front half and I got two large sections done in the back.  My back keeps aching from all that pushing.

Some bee-balm flowers arrived in the mail on Friday and I purchased some potting soil for them.  My wife and I were going to turn over the dirt in front of the house, but just a few centemeters under it we just kept hitting rocks. We are going to find a flower box and put the soil in there.  Bee-balm is my wife’s favorite flower.

My neice woke up early on Sunday and from what I heard, she kept asking if she could wake me up so we could collect rocks.  I told her on Saturday we could find some rocks and put them down in the old fence post holes.  Well, we soon went ahead and found some rocks.  We only filled one hole half way.  All the other holes were filled completely with sand.  It turns out that I had some extra sand left over in the first back, and one back not even opened.  I took the two bags into my back yard and dumped them into a pile in a bare spot where the grass doesn’t grow.

For about an hour, my neice and I built sand castles.  I taught her the steps to making them so that she fills the bucket all the way up, dumps it fast, pats the top, wiggle the bucket, and then slowly pull it up.  She got it perfect after her second attempt.  We also built a giant ant hill, and a house out the the sand.

By time the afternoon came on Sunday, I was so exhausted from being with her so much that I took a nap.  I was supposed to do a few more things with my mother in-law, but by time I woke up, she had already left.  There is always next weekend.

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