Our weekend was busy with home improvements, but we made up for it Monday night. First, here's a picture of our continuing backyard project. We are putting in a patio off one side of the deck, where we'll have a firepit. To dig out the dirt and level the area in prep to lay the flatrock, Dave rented a dingo (piece of machinery with shovel on front) on Saturday. Here's the work in progress:
That area in the corner by the fence will be one of the main places I will be planting flowers/bushes/trees next spring, so I'm looking forward to that!
As Dave was laying the stone edging around the patio last night, our friend Chris stopped by for a visit. After giving Dave a hard time for adding yet another thing on to our backyard project, he called and asked his wife Jana to join us and we all sat on the deck and visited for awhile. After it got dark we moved inside and ate some dinner, and broke out the Horse Racing game that Dave ordered online after playing it one weekend at the lake with some work friends.
It was a fun evening, we played the game for a couple of hours and enjoyed some libations while racing our horses! So that was my "bad" night for the week -- no exercise last night, 3+ glasses of wine and a piece of pizza! But I made up for it tonight with a 2 mile brisk walk and a bowl of Grape Nuts, and plan to do the same tomorrow. I lost almost 1 pound from last week to this week, AND also can tell my stomach is losing some of that flab!
