Weekend Happenings...

This weekend was a busy one!  Twice a year our city does a neighborhood trash pickup.  They take things like tree trimmings and junk that doesn't fit in a normal trash can.  Hubby spent almost all day Saturday going through tile we've had stored on the side of the house, trimming trees, taking down a partial fence and just going through "stuff".  He worked hard!  I helped him with the tile and found muscles that I'd forgotten I had...ouch!  I went to the grocery store and stocked up on chicken breasts (.99 cents a lb) and repackaged them.  I decided the freezer needed a good going through while I was at it.  Laundry was also tackled.  Sunday I worked in the toddler classroom at church then spent the afternoon with 1 daughter-in-love and 3 of the grands.  Two of them spent the night but didn't have a change of clothes so a run to Wal-Mart finished out our day.  Hubby spent the afternoon relaxing on the couch then had to drive 5 hours last evening to his workplace in order to be there at 6:00 this morning. All in all a very productive weekend...time to start a new week!

What's Been Going On Around Our Place

We have been busy working...that's what's been going on around our place!  Hubby has been finishing the built-in table in the backyard and it's fabulous!  Here's a picture:

Now he's working on finishing the wall behind the Green Egg and BBQ grill:

I've kept busy too though!  I planted several pots of succulents in the front yard, staked our pepper plants, planted a couple of flower pots in the backyard AND have been working on 2 quilt tops!  The 1st one is a Marilyn Monroe quilt for 1 of my daughter-in-loves:

We still need to pick out borders for it.

The other quilt I'm working on is a churndash.  I was in a block exchange with friends from all over the USA in 2012 and had put the blocks away with "someday doing something with them".  Well, I pulled them out this weekend and here are most of them:

I want to turn them into something like this:

I'm well on my way to it too!  I may make the flowers a bit different...we'll see.

We also been having fun in the pool and bbq'ing with family.

On the weight-loss note...I'm down 45 lbs as of today!