Mother's Day and Beyond...

Ashley needed a patio table and her dad being the handy guy that he is made her one. It is so beautiful.

Mother's Day we ate dinner at Ashley's and later in the afternoon we went on a bike ride in town. As we were riding around Bryan spied a pile of wood (someone's old deck) and stopped to ask the guy if he could have it. Ashley and I just sat off to the side and laughed at the whole scrounger scene.

After our ride was over Bryan went home, got the pickup came back in and loaded up all that wood. We ordered pizza with Ashley at her house and Mr. I Can't Sit Still Long got up and proceeded to remove her huge valance boxes from her living room wall. We just watched and took pictures of his head in the box. We are so nice...

That done, we headed home. Monday morning we got up and proceeded to create two large raised planting beds for Ashley out of the wood Bryan reclaimed. We even used the screws that were in the boards. Total cost to the raised beds...$30.00 for dirt. His scrounging always is worthwhile. The table, by the way, is made for some lumber scrounged out of an old shed. Amazing what people will throw away. And what he can make out of it.

load of reclaimed lumber

removing the screws so we could reuse them.

taking the scraps down to the firepit to use for kindling.

Much needed break at Sonic and I introduced Bryan to the Lemonberry Slush...yum. We had a few minutes to kill before we could go pick up our riding mower...2 years in the shop and it works! Ashley asked us to come back to roast hotdogs and christen the new table so we headed back to her house after getting the mower. Bobbi, Travis, Jayme and Rikki all come over to join us. 

We came home at about 9:30 and crashed. Funny side note...we went to get the mower off the trailer and as Bryan was driving it back to the shop he turned on the lights and it blew a fuse and died right in the middle of the driveway...it is funny now...it wasn't then.

These posts are backwards because as I was looking for pictures for another post I realized I hadn't blogged about Sunday and Monday. Now you understand how I walked downstairs this morning with a load of laundry and went to throw it in the dishwasher...