Workin' outside

Well the weeds have really taken over around here with all the rain and such lately. So they are growing EVERYWHERE. We thought about just pulling the weeds along the side of the house but in the end I fired up the weed wacker and went at it with that. It was a real mess and we still need to scrape the ground. The weeds in the other parts of the yard are easier to get because the ground is a little softer and they haven't grown so closely together.

We finally got Devin out of the house because he wanted to see the Lady Bugs. So he spent a good amount of time out there just playing with them. It is amazing but generally it is really difficult to get Devin to go outside and then he never wants to come back in. That was the case today and he really didn't want to stop.

I was running the grill so he just sat over there with me and helped pull some weeds while I was weeding there. The ground on this side is pretty soft so they come up pretty good. I filled up one of those metal trash cans just from that side - not including everything else that we did. We still have a lot to do but at least it is forward progress!

Denise bought a book a few weeks ago about Spanish (Spain) cooking so she made some bread (that turned out pretty good) and we had grilled chicken, potatoes smothered in olive oil, and tuna stuffed olives (imported from Spain). It was pretty neat to have a pretty good typical Spanish dinner that we used to have when we lived in Spain. The bread really made it and that has been the long pole in the tent since we came back in 1993. Anyway it was pretty good!