A Lazy (?) Sunday Afternoon

 After I typed in that title, I thought we did a bunch of work that probably wouldn't be labeled as lazy!

But the day was slow and easy.  We stayed home all day.  We saw both Megan  and Hilary.  Cooper jumped on the trampoline and watched some of the Cubs game with Papaw.  Landon fed the goats for the first time in a week.

The work came earlier in the afternoon.  We worked outside (yes, it was hot!) for a couple of hours.  I pulled weeds and trimmed the geranium baskets, trimmed the hanging baskets on the deck and patio and the pot of flowers by the garage doors.  I snipped off the dead blooms that looked like they had been burned from the coriopsis plants by the gazebo.  I watered everything well.  

Gary wanted to put the rest of the pea gravel in the bed by the deck so I sprinkled from the new container of Preen in that area.  Unfortunately when I pulled off the foil cap and returned the screw on top, it was not on completely so it fell off.  I defy any weeds to pop up around the iron kettle containing the marigolds!    I tried to scoop up as much as I could and replace it in the container, then I tried to spread out the rest of it to other areas, not too successfully.

The pea gravel filled in some of the areas where weeds had been pulled previously and made an improvement in the appearance of the flower bed.  We saved two bags for weight in the back of the pick up for winter and will probably use it next spring.

While I was working around the gazebo, Gary emptied the planter in the old seeder and replanted it with a pack of begonias that had been kept alive all summer.  I dumped the white planter in the gazebo since all of the marigolds in it had died, and he planted the lonely geranium that had been sitting by the hose and water faucet in it.  

I had mentioned the other day that we needed to clean out the area around the door and screen into the garage.  It would be nice to be able to walk in and out without using the huge garage door.  There is also an outside light with the switch inside of that door.  It could be lit when we have evening guests or events in the Party Barn to shed more light for those needing to go to the house for the bathroom.  Gary worked on that area and now we can use the door!  Of course there is not much room to navigate around the cars, but at least we have a way to get in and out without raising and lowering the garage door!

Megan and Cooper came mid-afternoon so he could try out the trampoline.  Sitting in the shade and watching him jump was relaxing.  He must have worked up a great thirst while jumping because he consumed three pouches of Hi-C fruit punch from the Party Barn fridge!

Dinner tonight consisted of hamburgers from the grill, cole slaw made by Gary, tomatoes, ears of sweet corn, and chips.  Good Sunday evening dinner.

To cap off the day we sat on the deck for a while until it was dark.  Another I really like about this house....we have more room to sit outside.  I know---we had a huge yard and a patio at the other house.  But we just didn't sit outside there. There had been a few times around the fire ring and I sat on the Adirondack chairs on the patio a couple of times.  But we didn't sit outside in the evenings at all.   We did with Leo and Agnes on their porch and sometimes in their yard, but not at our house.

Just a lazy Sunday.  We watched the online service from the Christian Church in Francesville, then the rest of the day had plans to it.  Kinda refreshing!