Friday night, I went to Maddy's town to attend one of their free summer concerts with her! They try to go every week but Matthew was out of town and Maddy didn't want to go alone. She got more knitting in and we got a lot of chit chatting in.
The Death Stranding birthday party for Ryan and Jen, on Saturday night was a lot of fun!
SO much pizza and goodies! Leon had even made a cake. I made the buttercream frosting for it. Thank goodness Maddy brought a veggie platter. I made a salad using lettuce and the toppings of a couple slices of pizza & said vegetables.
mmm and snuck a few boneless bbq chicken wings. I need to knock THAT off!
Meri and Josh were there too and even Aggie joined in on the living room fun as Ryan forged his way into the sequel for the game. Even though Matthew was several states away at a conference, he was able to connect via Twitch and watch the action too. He texted several times about events going on in the game.
Sunday, after church, some church friends stopped by and helped me work on my rider mower to fix the bent wheel. They ended up using the two parts I'd purchased after all and identified another crutial piece that got bent also. The front axle. I asked a neighbor for a tool I didn't have and he came over and fussed over the mower along with Seth. So much grease! I felt so bad for getting them into the nitty gritty of it all. I thought it was going to be a quick fix.
Seth will be back later this week with a pipe wrench to see if he can bend the axle back into place.
In the meanwhile, I mowed the front yard afterwards and it handled SO much better than it had been doing! Instead of a ten point turn at every corner, it was only 3! PROGRESS!!!
Oh, plus they tightened the steering wheel! So it's not so jiggly! Whew.
While Aggie and Jen played in the kiddie pool, I pulled thistle weeds out of my hostas and cement hill and finally planted my hydrangea plant that Meri gave me for Mother's Day. It actually broke apart into two plants! So winner winner!
I opened a bag of mulch that had been sitting there all last winter to spread around it and low and behold there was a mass colony of ants living inside and they spilled out all over my tennis shoes and gloves! Yikes! and they were biters!
That was about when I decided I'd had enough for one day. Besides sweat was dripping off my face like a faucet was on. I left my shoes on the porch so the ants could go find another home. yuck.
OH and I sprayed the air conditioner with the hose a lot! I'm guessing that's why it's not keeping up very well with the heat. It was pretty dirty. So now we wait again to see if it made a difference.
Got a lot of weeding in this morning before work. If I can get 30 minutes of weeding in a day, I think the yard will be good by Christmas. You know. Under a foot of snow.
below: reading to herself.
I cried at church yesterday. Widows being given back their sons. I'm not jealous but well, maybe. It's a widow thing. Always rehashing the actual day, wondering if I missed something or didn't pray at the right time or not do the right things. And wouldn't you just know it? The first service I hadn't brought tissues to the pew with me. Even though I didn't get Robb back, God has been taking good care of us and Robb is having a beautiful time while he waits for me to catch up.
Well...
Back to work Mr Zook! Thanks Dave! * Robb always rolled his eyes at me for quoting that old Sioux City car dealership commercial!! * :)
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