Father's Day

I have a lot of stuff to blog about I just haven't felt like actually blogging when I get home from work and sometimes I type up my posts at work and then just add the pictures at home but work has been ridiculously busy so I haven't had time to do that.

My parent's were in California with Robyn and her family for father's day which was good because it gave us an extra week to make my Dad's present. We decided to make raised garden boxes for my dad because he had mentioned to my Mom that he would like to have some. Our original plan was to pour cement around the garden but I am glad that we decided to make the garden boxes since none of us know how to pour cement. My Dad had been too busy this summer to even plant his garden so before we could make the garden boxes we had to weed the garden which was a lot of work. Weeding was pretty traumatic for me around my parents garden they had boards to keep the grass out and the boards were kind of rotting away from being against the dirt for so long. So when we started to pull the boards out they had tons of ants on them then my eye really started to burn really bad so I was rubbing it because I thought that maybe I got dirt in it and it started to burn worse so I asked Jenn if she could see something wrong with my eye. She told me that I had an ant stuck in my eyelashes and it was biting my eyelid. Jenn is terrified of ants but she was nice enough to get it off my eye so that it would stop biting me. The next day we were weeding and I was at one end of the garden working and Jenn was at the other end spraying weed killer and all of a sudden a mouse came running towards me. I almost had a heartattack but luckily the next day the neighbors dog caught the mouse and killed it.

The next day we took the boards and some grass to the dump and Austin and I almost got buried in a pile of garbage when it started to fall down on top of us. After that we finally put the garden box together and it turned out really well. My Dad is going to make a few more boxes to finish filling up the garden and then get some bark to go around the boxes so that no weeds get in them.