I got the rest of the landscape plants in the ground, did some weeding, mowed the lawn, got a moderate sunburn (I meant to apply more sunscreen after getting a little bit of direct sun, but lost track of time), did some tree maintenance (reshaping some trees with pruning and ropes), and wandered around generally menacing the local flora with hand trimmers.
Finally, after 10 years, I got around to putting in an outside faucet on the east end of the house where most of the plants are, so watering tasks are a lot easier. Should have done this long ago, putting in the faucet was trivial, only about 2 hours work. Copper pipe has gotten expensive; even the little 1/2" stuff I used on this job was $16 for a 10 foot length, and I needed 40 feet to get to the unsoftened water source on the other side of the house; last time I did this stuff (maybe 8 years ago) it was more like $6. I even got in a nice bike ride into the hardware store in town, to get a few copper couplings I forgot. Only 9 miles, but better than nothing.
Today both kids marched in the parade, we had a nice 15 minutes in the very nice Chelsea cemetary for the end-of-parade speaker. I remember as a very little kid the 90 year old lady that used to read "Flander's Field" every year. I don't take many holidays seriously anymore, but Memorial day I believe in.
Then we went to Jenn's folks place, had a pleasant afternoon, Dad is ready to take the plunge into digital photography so he was interested in both my new camera and my opinion of the cameras he's considering. He gave us some plants from his greenhouse and we came home and planted them, except a few marigolds that have yet to go in.
This spectacular guy was hanging out on the flowers out there. I love the macro on this new camera.
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