Day 124: There are interesting things in Kansas
Here is another photo taken on my desktop studio. I need to work out a way to add an additional light.
Most of Lawrence, KS is comprised of awesome, clay and limestone. My main concern for this post is the clay and limestone. Now that our deck wraps around the side of the house, the part of the yard which was rarely traveled is now a focal point because that is where people go from deck to yard. I dug up a small space by the deck stairs for a garden for Ada and I. Ada mainly carried flowers from one part of the yard to another*, moved dirt around and watered. I did most of the heavy work of digging up and moving out the top layer of mostly weeds, mixing in that nice dark organic filled dirt with the mostly clay dirt, and pulling out big hunks of limestone whenever I hit one. We added a couple more today, so I set to digging another hole when at about 5 inches, I hit what I assumed was another piece of limestone. I still assumed it was limestone when I tossed it to the side with others. Then I saw a glimmer of pink through the encasing of mud. I cleaned it off to reveal this.
I spent the morning with the kids while Mac took a chainsaw to the big limbs in the yard from our recent storm. Then he came in, and I took Mom and James for haircuts and a little shopping. I really need jeans that fit me, but didn’t end up with any. We only went to one place, and that place had nothing. I did end up getting a few more bras. I remeasured myself not too long ago, and dude, my bras are too big. I bought the correct size, and wow! It is like I’m 10 years younger. We came home right after because we had James, and he was getting a haircut when he would have normally been taking a nap. Plus, I think part of his grumpiness was being traumatized from having to go bra shopping with his mother.
When we got home, my mother and I set to doing yard work. The backyard garden is done, the front yard had the ugly thorny bushes torn out and replaced with coordinating ground cover. I cleaned up the landscaping behind the tree in our front yard. My mother planted her flowers in her big ceramic flowerpot that she picked out for mother’s day. I took a break for dinner, and went back out in the yard. When I was done, I still felt like I had tons of energy, so I went for a walk/jog on the treadmill.
That’s my day in a nutshell.
*Most moving the flowers from the back yard, where I needed them to the front yard where I had to walk around the house to go get them and move them back to the back yard.
