Much Ado

We took labor day weekend to labor heavily. Finishing some of our main landscaping goals and fixing things that come with home ownership. There are many sore muscles at our home now... but some great rewards from all our work.

In bullets, here was our weekend:

• rock climbing as a family
• woodstone (this needs an explanation later)
• family movie night
• tackling a $500 job of raising our sinking concrete walkway (Mr. Man and I... and that means we saved ourselves $500!!!)
  
• digging up grass
• building our vegetable garden box (for next year)
  
• putting in an island on our lawn
• digging up grass
• putting in a landscaping area around the utilities boxes on our lawn (still need to fill it in)
• buying dirt to fill all these spots
• digging up grass (have I mentioned this tedious job?)
  
• putting in some bushes
• lots of clean up and shoveling dirt and sod all over the place
• hiking
• dinner with friends

Amidst all of our hard work, Mr. Man and I also took off to see Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" at our beautiful old theater downtown. It was the final showing of the summer tour and was FREE and absolutely hilarious. The setting of the play was Charleston, NC right before the Civil War. Very well done and a nice outing for the two of us. I managed to sneak away another time and see "The Help" yet again... but don't worry, Mr. Man had plenty of early morning bike rides up in the mountains.

I have gained a ton of weight recently and am trying to be better about exercising and watching what I eat. I eat chocolate almost every day and am now going on 2 days without. Sad, but true how hard this is. Feeling my muscles so much this weekend was kind of invigorating... hopefully I worked off a few calories too.

So that's it. Much ado about nothing really.