Memorial Day Weekend Recap

Aloha you sexy beasts!  I hope you were able to enjoy a nice three day weekend and getcher grill on!  Last Thursday we went to a mom and pop place for flowers and their prices were shockingly high.  I had the Mr check at the other local nursery (but has several locations around town) and they were $5 less per flat.  Sorry peeps...mama's gotta save some dough given the price of gas, groceries and well, living.  I got a few flats of schtuff to plant and decided to get on much of that Friday.  

I ordered some new galvanized steel hanging planters to replace the older ones we had that were rusting at the corner welds.  I got two sets of them even though I only needed three total but that was what I was working with so we'll see if I find a use for the fourth smaller one.  Of course they don't have drain holes but nothing a drill bit couldn't fix.  I planted some vincas and got them hung just as the heavens opened.  I did manage to get my impatiens planted in their planters around the base of the big umbrella and the window box planter geraniums in place.  I'll be honest, I hate geraniums but we had to get a new outdoor pic this year since the old one was faded so bad and this picture just seemed to scream that was the flower it needed.  Who am I to deny the picture what it wants?

Thankfully Friday the second arbor arrived that the company re-sent because FedEx lost or damaged the first one according to their case worker.  Jerks.  I had hoped to get basically everything planted before the Mr came home but only got most of the way there and putting together the arbor put the nail in the coffin that is my body.  It's not that it was particularly hard but awkward to do with one person though it could be done.  I just didn't have it in me to go there and whip pieces over the fence in frustration solo given all we went through to get it.  I was kind of irritated there was no real bottom to the planter boxes so I had this leftover plastic shelf liner that I cut for the bottom so we could put some rocks on there before putting in organic dirt for the trumpet vines.  Hopefully that will help anchor the arbor even more.  We haven't had any wind yet but I'm sure it's coming to give it a proper test.  Of course, I had special sized coconut liners I had to buy so those weren't coming until Sunday so the whole patio couldn't be "done done" until then.  But we did get stuff transplanted to their new homes and cleaned off pretty much everything.  I was going to wash the cushion covers since they smelled a little eau de mildew but he unzipped them and said while the foam was in good shape the Dacron covering has disintegrated.  I was going to just order new cushions from Lowe's since that's where we got the set but every review for the ones similar to ours 1) looked puny because ours are nice and tall and 2) had reviews from skinny people saying they were flat within a week.  Well, I'm not paying $400 total for new cushions for them to be shite.  So I ordered some Dacron wrap that will arrive sometime this week and we'll have a NEW project ahead of us.  Yay.  But until that comes, we have the basically finished patio to enjoy.

The wisteria bloomed this year which made me very happy!  Now we're hoping those get some umph and climb to the top as well as the clematis and trumpet vines so we can eventually have full coverage on it.

Saturday was glorious weather wise.  It barely kissed 70 and was overcast with a slight breeze.  We hadn't set up the stuff so we could eat outside but I'm not a fan of bugs trying to dive bomb my food and we hadn't treated with the flea/tick repellant yet which many reviews claim also keeps flies and skeeters at bay!  I surprised the Mr with a delivery of a Maxwell Street Polish kit from Portillo's in Chicago.  So we had that, crockpot corn on the cob, chips and beans for our first 'summer' grill out of the year.  Then we napped because that's how we do.  Mine was that in and out kind of nap where you swear you haven't slept but it's suddenly two hours later.  Whoops.  We washed down the pollen covered crap on the furniture/covers before I grilled up some smash burgers on the grill with leftover sides from lunch and settled in watching a few episodes of The Affair to relive our time in Montauk and watch their webcams from the lighthouse since it somehow feels like we've been back for two months instead of three weeks.  The Mr treated the lawn under the cloak of darkness with the flea/tick repellant since we're going to have a few non rainy days.  Hoping to see a decrease in flying skeevies as well as spiders because those effers were EVERYWHERE Saturday.  I feel like we sent four or five different species to the other side.  I didn't get any grilled outside food pics but I did manage to capture Sunday's Montauk special of lobster grilled cheese.

We finished off the chips and had some pesto corn on the cob on the side.  We worked off a little bit of it doing Juice and Toya's strength/endurance workout an hour beforehand.  The day seemed to fly by between finishing up planting, working out and stuffing our gullets.  

Monday was a very chill day.  Caught up on the DVR a little, got in an early workout of old Tae Bo Get Ripped then had turkey sloppy joe's for lunch and dinner.  Other than that, nothing doing because my body was tapped.  Well, I did put together a workout calendar for June which took some time but it'll be nice to not have to think about it everyday and just do it.

How did you spend your weekend?

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