...homemade English muffin sammie for brekkie...
...I also had my golden mix...which is turmeric, ashwaganda powder, fenugreek powder, pepper and cinnamon...with just a shot of almond milk...it tastes like a mini chai latte...
...after breakfast we headed out for shopping...the bag of apples are McIntosh...because the Man wants to make homemade applesauce and those are the best apples...
...Aldi had organic Black Pepper...I'd not seen that before...and I try to buy organic when I can...
...and Stuff-Mart had these drinks on markdown...it was really really good too...so I'll be looking for them again...but they're probably being discontinued...
...and before we started on the BIG project for the weekend I needed a snack...so I had a Brazil nut...I have one every day to make sure I get enough selenium...
...and then I chopped up a bunch of muesli ingredients and made a cup of tea...
...instead of oats I mixed the muesli fruit and nuts into a bowl of corn flakes and it was very yummy and filling...
...after the grocery shopping and snacking we headed here to do some sod shopping...not really...no shopping I mean...we have centipede grass on the rest of the lawn so we're going with centipede beside the driveway too...
...then of course it was time to get started on the MAJOR project of the weekend...
...which involved digging up all of the sedum we had planted a couple of years ago...after the lavender failed to flourish...I had already dug up a couple of plants and taken them up to Mom last weekend because I knew this was coming...
...it wasn't really that the sedum was dying the way the lavender did...but more the constant weeding that I wanted to stop doing...
...I pulled up the edging that I had so painstakingly put down...
...it was really difficult and required our largest set of pliers to pull it out of the ground...I was surprised at how difficult it was to remove...
...anywhoo...I'll be repurposing that...of course...
...then I scooped all of the pebbles into garbage bags...
...then I got out the tiller and tilled up the strip to get it ready for sod...just thinking back to when we bought the house and it was just grass and that seemed to be doing ok...we're not going to try any other 'fancy' solutions...
...then I had to get rid of all the pebbles...they were really really heavy...so I rigged up an old luggage cart to move them...
...and by then it was getting dark...
...but I was really happy with the progress...
...so the next day we got busy laying some sod...
...which is not very difficult but does involve a lot of heavy lifting and bending over...
...and in no time we had a fresh new strip of green grass beside our driveway...
...I just took baby steps all over it to get it seated...
...and gave it a good long drink...
...the goal will be to keep the monitor in the 'moist' area for a couple of months until the new sod is well established...
...good luck to the new grass strip...
...while all of the sod-laying was happening...a loaf of delicious bread was baking the bread machine...
...after the setup it involves no input from me
...but I was really happy to get to come inside and have a nice warm crusty heel of bread slathered in vegan butter with a cup of tea...it was the perfect break...
...after my break...I headed out front to reposition the edging that I'd pulled up along the driveway...
...and it was the perfect length to border the new gardenia garden out front...so that was a win...
...also very happy and thankful that the gardenias all seem to like their new home as they were struggling in the heat and sun in the back yard...
...and I picked up a couple of curbside 'deals' on my bike ride...this basket that I think will hold some yarn or something in the laundry/craft room...
...a half-full bag of potting soil...
...and a hanging basket also full of potting soil...
~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!
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