Planting Marathon

There's no better way to start a Sunday work day than shopping for more landscape plants.  High Country Gardens has all perennials on sale and poor J. is going to freak out when they arrive later this week.  Five groupings of multiple plants to be lovingly placed in various open beds around the front and back lawns.  If all of these 'take' and survive our gardener and his merry band of weed whacking help, we can consider the beds 'done' forever.  Hopefully.  The raised beds we lovingly installed a few years back are now just weed fests and I honestly don't know what to do with them - we pull out the growth but we aren't trying veggies anymore so....those need a little something.  I have a bunch of wildflower seed here that we can try - maybe that will fill those in.

I also dreamed of putting wild flowers in the gaps between the side yard sidewalk and the fence - but Chloe has claimed those spaces for her business.  In true testament to her age, she resists going anywhere near the grass these days - just can't deal with the dew and tickling on her stomach and nether regions, I guess.  She's past middle age and officially older so - I guess wildflowers wouldn't be a great idea after all.  And since there's no water source, hand watering up and down that area doesn't sound all that appealing anyway - so...back to where to put the wildflower seeds.

J.'s got bacon sizzling in the pan; I hear him mixing up waffle batter.  A nice Sunday breakfast is also a great start to a busy day - and my busy-ness will be at my desk again (was there yesterday, too), but oh well.

We binged watch Grace and Frankie on Netflix yesterday and will finish up watching the full current season tonight.  Might even re-watch them all...then we're moving on to starting (from the beginning) House of Cards.  Our Sunday evening favorite shows are either done forever (missing you Good Wife) or on hiatus until next season.  Sundays won't be the same without those shows to look forward to.

I need to try to get to Walmart for a quick toiletry/household item shop but that can probably wait until next weekends.  Not really out of anything but running low on a few things and while J. would happily make the trip, it's easier for me to just run get what I need vs. listing and trying to explain what I need.  I rarely shop these days - spoiled, I am. He gassed up my car for me at Costco yesterday and did a fairly big shop - but I realized this morning that he will need to go back 'cuz my almond milk supply is pretty low.

B. will be home in a few weeks for close to a month - and we are trying hard not to be too 'naggy' about all the things he needs to take care of related to his move to Kentucky.  Cable, Internet, car insurance, cell phone, etc. - all those things that require cancelling and re-establishing.  Personally, I would prefer to spend a few days - maybe even a week - in the new location in advance of when I have to show up for work to get all those things set up and worked out....but something tells me he's going to wait until the last possible moment to take care of all this stuff.  And he has to arrange to get his truck from El Paso to Kentucky as well -

I try hard to just stay out of it but I suspect the month he's home is going to be a lot of 'stuff' and 'drama' related to the move.  We will see.  He's so excited about being home...and I think it's so sweet that at 25, there's still nowhere else he'd rather spend his down time than home.  (I can't really take credit for that given that we likely won't see much of him - he will camp and spend time with friends much of his time here - ).  But still...warms a mom's heart to hear how happy he is to be coming home.

That's all that's up around here - low key and quiet, pretty much.  I haven't seen H. much at all and I worry about that - what is he up to all the time when he's not here?  Really?  'cuz he's rarely here these days and a mom wonders.