This morning after breakfast and after Gavin was asleep for a nap, we did some yardwork. Jason cleaned out gutters and mowed the lawn while I worked on cleaning up the landscaping, pulling weeds and snipping back dying vegetation and whatnot. When I finished the backyard, I planted bulbs. I am excited to finally be able to plant bulbs. Although I love autumn, every year by early November I find myself eagerly anticipating spring. (I do realize that it's not early November yet. Just in case you were wondering.) This year, I am excited not just for spring itself, but for the flowers that will push their way up through the frozen earth. In a way, planting bulbs is a promise that spring will come, that the cold of winter is but fleeting.
Gavin eventually woke up and we stopped out outside work. Since he got mobile, we can no longer put him on a blanket and have him stay there. Now if we tried that, we'd be prying leaves and bits of dirt and dog poop out of his hands and mouth. Yum. We watched the two remaining episodes of FireFly on the DVD from the library, then we returned said disc to the library and got out more DVDs (but not FireFly, as it was all checked out). After the library, I went into the grocery store to pick up the remaining items from my list from Saturday.
When we got home, I worked on dinner and talked to Shannon on the phone and made bread. The bread is partly because we need bread, and partly an experiment. I am trying to get lighter, less-dense bread, so I bought some gluten and used it. The bread is out of the oven now, but I haven't cut into it yet. The density remains to be seen.
Posted by allison at October 3, 2004 08:51 PM