All in a day's work

I spent the majority of the day outside yesterday - which in my book, makes it a good day already. Daniel and I went to our friends' house to work on the garden for a few hours in the afternoon...

There's not much growing in it yet, thanks to the brutal dryness that we've been experiencing lately. C'mon, rain - where are you?

Daniel and Mouse were perfectly content to play together for the entire time that we were there, which allowed me to get a lot of weeding done.

Well, at least the onions are growing....and hey, those toes look familiar!

After I got done playing in their dirt, we came home so that I could play in our dirt. I busted out the circular saw and some old landscape timbers and got to work - I had gotten a rather obnoxious phone call and needed something to do to work out some frustrations. So my front "flowerbed" went from this....

To this....

And finally, to this...

I still have some work to do out there, but it does look better. I think.

It was after I was done with this project (and weeding another flowerbed) that the boys and I decided to go to McDonalds - where the incident happened. If you haven't read that one, please do. I'd love to really spread the word on that one.

(shameless plug over)

So today will be spent following up on the aforementioned obnoxious phone call, working on laundry (it never ends) and hopefully getting back outside to do some more work out there. Even though I'm only renting, I still want to make this place look good - maybe making it look respectable is the key to keeping the *ahem* former customers of the former renters from knocking on my door looking for something that I don't have....

I can hope, anyway......