productive weekend

a hearth for my fire container – 9 very heavy paving stones

i’m lounging about tonight – too tired to do much but read a little and update my blog as i anticipate my early-morning wake-up call for the start of the work week tomorrow. my very productive weekend has involved:

preparing the front garden bed for spring planting – this meant weeding it right down to some of the sorriest soil i have ever seen, purchasing a yard of compost for it, which i then had to spread and turn into the bed, covering it in a layer of newspapers (to keep down the weeds), and finishing it off with landscape cloth. yup – that was some sweaty work – but the goal is to have a plantable bed come march so i can put some perennial-type plants in there for easy maintenance. my next gardening task in a few months time will be working out the edible garden i plan to put in the side plot.

purchasing, loading, and then unloading and carying upstairs nine very heavy paving stones to use as a hearth on my deck for the fire container i acquired earlier this summer. you can see it pictured above – simple, but it will do the trick of protecting the deck from sparks.

installing a digital thermostat in my living room – again, an earlier purchase that has been waiting for me to action it. despite a little confusion in the wiring, it worked as promised on the box – and now i can program the heat in my home to be ready when i get in from work during the dark winter months.

reading two books from my reading challenge list.

playing music with some friends from gibsons and roberts creek on saturday night. funny enough, i thought i would only know one person there (richard, who invited me) but it turned out that i knew two of the other musicians from completely different places – proving once again that i do know people on the coast.

talking on the phone – catching up with my mother, and also with aaron.

doing the regular weekend chores – laundry, groceries, other odds and ends (but unfortunately no cleaning, i was just too wiped out from everything else!)

phew! all this really because i feel that the few weekends i am around the house, i have to make the best use of – next weekend i am off to vancouver island to visit family for the first time in months.