The Beginning of a Busy Month

This weekend we headed up to Hibbing for our 4th wedding of the year. This one was for an old college friend of Jerad's. I have met him once before and I have to say that he is one of the nicest and most engaging guys I have met. I think I could sit and have small talk with him for hours. And you all know I love to talk. :-) Well since the only person we knew at the wedding was the groom - and with him being one of the main attractions we couldn't take up all of his time - we decided to leave the reception pretty early. We headed back to the hotel to call it an early night. Jerad thought it would be a grand idea to leave really early so we could get back home so we could cut down our pine trees. How early you ask? Well let's just say he requested a 5:30AM wake up call when we returned from the reception. We were on the road by 6:15AM. You all know I am no morning person. I was able to doze on the 3 hour drive home so that was very nice of him.

When we finally returned home, Jerad started on cutting down a lot of the branches on the pine trees. Now I will say that I did not get any pictures of the progress b/c I was afraid that if I went out there, I would be put to work......so I waited until it was mostly done. Our neighbor Fred came over and helped Jerad clip up branches and bag them or bundle them for the yard waste guy for the Monday pick up.

So the picture show what we put out for yard waste and since we didn't want to overwhelm the yard waste guy, we held off on putting some of it out. Only...we have a rock start yard waste guy....he had it all picked up in 3 minutes. Ahh...the joys of working from home on a Monday....I can time the yard waste guy. And then this final picture is what our neighbors now call the Palm trees. I have a few jokesters in the neighborhood so I was half way thinking I would come home to a beach chair and umbrella sitting in the middle of the trees.

While Jerad was busy outside, Nattie and I did our own stuff inside - laundry, vacuuming, sweeping, scouting the back yard for squirrels - you know the normal weekend stuff. We were lucky enough to catch one squirrel with its hand in the cookie jar........

Needless to say, Nattie wasn't going to have any of that. So she decided it was her duty to guard the bird feeder. I don't think that squirrel came back at all today.