Good weekend
Friday, my mother-in-law came up and Chris took a half day off and we all went to the zoo. Unfortunately, everyone else in the world seemed to have the same idea. Duh, we should have known. Good Friday, a lot of people have off work, it was the last weekday of spring break and a gorgeous day to be outdoors. Chris' mom decided to get us a family pass. It gets us in all year (two adults, any children in the household under 18 plus a guest). That'll be nice and I won't feel bad about going for just a couple of hours and leaving. If we go 3 times, it'll pay for the family pass. We took a picnic lunch (something I really like about the zoo, they let you bring in coolers). I really think Jonah enjoyed himself, even if he was quite sleepy by the end.
Saturday, our neighborhood association did an Easter egg hunt. Chris brewed and I had committed to a hike at the Warner parks thinking it was supposed to be on Sunday. I canceled going to the park and took Jonah up there, and I'm glad I did (though I really would have appreciated a hike). But he had a lot of fun! I had to hold his basket, but he did a reasonably good job picking up the eggs and putting them in the basket. Unfortunately, after about 4 eggs, he noticed there was candy in them and lost interest in picking up more and started wanting to pull the candy out. Also, they had filled some with chocolate candy and it sat out in the sun that afternoon melting. Quite a mess. They did a bunny hop contest too, but Jonah just sort of stood there and looked at me. In fact, only one little girl in his age group (1-2) would actually hop. The rest of the day, we just hung out while Chris, Doug and Jonathan brewed. Well, and I planted our blueberry and raspberry plants finally (they've been sitting dormant in our kitchen window sill since fall). I also worked some composted manure into one 4x4 section of our raised vegetable garden. I was amazed and happy at how many worms were in that bed. I was also amazed but unhappy about how many tree roots grown up into it. Eventually, we may turn that into an ornamental bed and relocate our veggies.
Sunday, I sat on the back steps to drink my coffee in the morning. The air was cool, but the sun warmed up everything nicely. It was just absolutely gorgeous. After a late breakfast of omelets, I got out and planted some overdue daffodils and tulips into containers as not to waste them, then sowed some lettuce seeds in the bed I worked yesterday. I also went ahead and pruned the lower branches on the trees in the backyard. There really wasn't much to do. We did a lot of work last year and it seems there's not nearly as much to be done to get it back into shape this year. I'm now sporting a nice farmer's tan from wearing t-shirts to work in the yard this weekend. Guess I need to pull out the tank tops. Chris had picked up a chocolate bunny, some candy eggs and a little stuffed rabbit for Jonah's Easter basket Saturday night. He got to open it Sunday morning and really seemed to love it. He carried the stuffed rabbit around most of the morning and kept pointing to the basket during the day giving me the "more" sign saying he wanted more candy. He took no for an answer reasonably well when it just wasn't appropriate for him to have more chocolate.
I also finished reading The Tao of Pooh this weekend. It's been really cute, but also a very nice, simplified way to look at Taoist principles. Seems kind of strange to say "simplified Tao" since Tao is supposed to be so simple anyway. But it's sometimes difficult to really grasp such simplicity. Our minds, distracted by the material world, want to nag us to believe there's more to it. There really isn't.
So yeah, like most people were this weekend I would imagine, I was so busy, I probably wouldn't have bothered with LJ even if there wasn't a strike. Today, I need to get this house back into shape. It's amazing how when I don't clean for two days, it suddenly looks like I haven't cleaned in a month.
Saturday, our neighborhood association did an Easter egg hunt. Chris brewed and I had committed to a hike at the Warner parks thinking it was supposed to be on Sunday. I canceled going to the park and took Jonah up there, and I'm glad I did (though I really would have appreciated a hike). But he had a lot of fun! I had to hold his basket, but he did a reasonably good job picking up the eggs and putting them in the basket. Unfortunately, after about 4 eggs, he noticed there was candy in them and lost interest in picking up more and started wanting to pull the candy out. Also, they had filled some with chocolate candy and it sat out in the sun that afternoon melting. Quite a mess. They did a bunny hop contest too, but Jonah just sort of stood there and looked at me. In fact, only one little girl in his age group (1-2) would actually hop. The rest of the day, we just hung out while Chris, Doug and Jonathan brewed. Well, and I planted our blueberry and raspberry plants finally (they've been sitting dormant in our kitchen window sill since fall). I also worked some composted manure into one 4x4 section of our raised vegetable garden. I was amazed and happy at how many worms were in that bed. I was also amazed but unhappy about how many tree roots grown up into it. Eventually, we may turn that into an ornamental bed and relocate our veggies.
Sunday, I sat on the back steps to drink my coffee in the morning. The air was cool, but the sun warmed up everything nicely. It was just absolutely gorgeous. After a late breakfast of omelets, I got out and planted some overdue daffodils and tulips into containers as not to waste them, then sowed some lettuce seeds in the bed I worked yesterday. I also went ahead and pruned the lower branches on the trees in the backyard. There really wasn't much to do. We did a lot of work last year and it seems there's not nearly as much to be done to get it back into shape this year. I'm now sporting a nice farmer's tan from wearing t-shirts to work in the yard this weekend. Guess I need to pull out the tank tops. Chris had picked up a chocolate bunny, some candy eggs and a little stuffed rabbit for Jonah's Easter basket Saturday night. He got to open it Sunday morning and really seemed to love it. He carried the stuffed rabbit around most of the morning and kept pointing to the basket during the day giving me the "more" sign saying he wanted more candy. He took no for an answer reasonably well when it just wasn't appropriate for him to have more chocolate.
I also finished reading The Tao of Pooh this weekend. It's been really cute, but also a very nice, simplified way to look at Taoist principles. Seems kind of strange to say "simplified Tao" since Tao is supposed to be so simple anyway. But it's sometimes difficult to really grasp such simplicity. Our minds, distracted by the material world, want to nag us to believe there's more to it. There really isn't.
So yeah, like most people were this weekend I would imagine, I was so busy, I probably wouldn't have bothered with LJ even if there wasn't a strike. Today, I need to get this house back into shape. It's amazing how when I don't clean for two days, it suddenly looks like I haven't cleaned in a month.