What A Weekend.

Especially if you count it as beginning Friday evening. Because of some serious ridiculosity at work, I had to work till 8:00 Friday night. Consider I am usually done for the day at 3:00, and you'll see why that was extremely annoying.

But moving on ... the weather was gorgeous this weekend! Sunny, warm - in the 60s. I was so inspired, I bought flowers. I mean, if this doesn't scream spring ...

... nothing does.

I did a ton of outdoor work this weekend - it was great. Anyone who knows me or has sporadically read the blog in warmer months knows how I love my porch. Well, it had gotten trashed over the winter. It was never really cleaned up to weather the cold months, and then a few wind storms blew things into a hideous mess. I forgot to take 'before' pictures of the worst of it, but this is an 'after.'


It's a good 'after.' Prior to this cleaning, there was stuff piled all over the table and all over the floor behind the table. I did take one picture of the other side of the porch, still in the middle of the cleaning project.


Ugh. I'm glad I got this done this weekend. The other side looks mostly better now as well, although the porch swing hasn't gotten cleaned off yet. I also cleaned up a couple other areas, trimmed my rose bush, lilac and azalea, and did some other general yard clearing. I just wish I had another week of days like today. This time of year there is so much I want to do that even two days full of progress doesn't feel like enough.

Saturday night we had our first official 'porch party' of the year. There was a fire (a huge fire - it was still smoldering this afternoon when I used it to burn some yard waste), lots of rum, and way too many kinds of pop. Rum experimentation at its best. We didn't have any archery or croquet this time, but we'll get there - when the yard dries up.