Today I woke up at 8:30am feeling surprisingly refreshed! I have no idea why, considering we went to bed pretty late, but I decided to go with it. We arranged and started laundry, tidied up the kitchen a bit, cleared off the dining room table, and a few other errands began. Dekker got up at a reasonable time and was in a good mood. We had everything set up for the day to smoothly. Our plan was going to be spent puttering around accomplishing things, then making my awesome chicken spaghetti for my dad to enjoy with us when he came in the evening to help with a few things. The flooding brought TONS of grass into our garden and we can almost not see where it ends and the lawn begins. So the plan was to use round up (I know, I know) and kill it off so we could plant soon. My dad was also going to help Brady get our chest freezer off of the cinder blocks we had it up on during the flood scare. However, thanks to the rain, the round up wouldn’t work, so dad didn’t come. We still did laundry and tidied a bit, but I felt discouraged.
If anyone remembers, my entire garden flooded last year, and stayed flooded, and died. It sucked. When all the flooding started, I came to terms with the fact that we wouldn’t have a garden again, and that would be ok. But there is no standing water in my garden! And I’m eager to get planting! So I was pretty bummed that the first leg of the garden couldn’t be started today. I kind of lost gumption after I discovered that. Chicken spaghetti was put on hold for another day. I was back in jammies. It was done. I know it seems like something really silly and little to get me down, but it was just something I was pumped for that went wrong.
The garden will be rounded up tomorrow morning, and then we’ll spend the afternoon and evening with friends we love. I’m excited and nervous to attempt making this amazing chicken stir fry my sister introduced me to for them. If the weather is good, the husbands might go outside and build deck chairs, but I hear rumors of more rain so I’m not holding my breath. I’m in no rush. There will be a deck chair day sometime in the near future, I am confident. So there is lots of good to come!
But being bummed out this evening, Brady and I decided to go to Saskatoon for a few groceries and mainly just to get out of the house. I really want watermelon, so we went for one of those. And I’m out of stretch mark lotion for my belly, so we need that too. Those two purchases plus a few other groceries and a quick visit with a friend who works at the mall made up the evening I wanted. No, I didn’t accomplish as many things around my house but I feel better having gone out. And I’m thinking my friends coming out tomorrow like us enough to look past the few dishes left in the sink, and the unswept floor.
It was a rainy day. A bit gloomy.