a "green thumb" Saturday

Today has been a very unusual Saturday. Last night the weather forecast was calling for rain and thunderstorms this morning so we decided that we would sleep in and just ride our trainer once we woke up.

We woke up around 8:30am... to beautiful blue skies! But we were too late to join the rest of the group and decided to get some things done first (like taxes) before going for a ride.

Anyway, after doing taxes we ended up going to Lowe's to buy garden stuff. After receiving another homeowners association violation because our grass was too long, we decided we'd better get the garden in shape. Of course, recent rain and warm temperatures has caused everything to grow like wildfire, so it's a little crappy that they didn't give people time to get their garden in shape. But that's Circle C for you *sigh*.

So we ended up spending about 3 hours in the garden - weeding, mulching, cutting, edging, sweeping. Quite satisfying work, but tiring and hot! We finished up around 5pm. Decided that instead of riding we would head into town and do our long run, to get used to the heat and get it out of the way. So we started our long run at 6pm Saturday evening! I had a good 7 mile run, Gordon did the full 13 miles on the schedule. I hung out at Austin Java with a couple of friends while Gordon was finishing his run. It was a lovely evening and good to be outside enjoying it. Now I'm feeling pretty tired, enjoying my cup of tea and half a brownie (already finished!), and I'm about to go and read for a while before catching some zzzzz's...