My last free weekend for a while.

It was a long weekend – not just because of Labor Day but because Hurricane Isaac came through and we had rain most of the weekend.  It started raining on Friday morning and continued off and on until yesterday morning.  There were times when the sun looked like it was trying to peek out of the clouds but mostly it just rained.  Fortunately, we didn’t get much wind (at least not down at the property) and the rain was the slow soaking in type except for a few downpours here and there.  So really we got what we needed to put this drought to bed I hope.  Friday afternoon was a little touch and go for a bit – there were tornado warnings in the St. Charles and St. Louis area but nothing that caused any damage at home… the kids were all home and didn’t even hear the sirens!  That is a little scary!

So on Saturday morning Bill and I headed over to Perryville to get plumbing to hook up the septic tank.  We weren’t getting anything that the rain would hurt on the trailer but of course just as he started to load the stuff up – we got a downpour!  We managed to hop back inside and wait a few minutes for it to let up and finished loading everything.  We took the back roads home because he was driving slowly so I got to see lots of farms and fields and woods that I don’t usually get to see.  Hopefully we will have a bathroom (or at least a toilet) by Samhain!  I say Samhain because as the title of this blog says – it was the last of our free weekends for a while. 

This coming weekend my daughter turns 17 so I’ll be in St. Louis.  Bill will be coming up sometime this week to put siding up on my house.  We got storm damage from earlier in the spring when we had some pretty bad hail.  He also has to fix some gutters and vent hoods.   The hood of my car is also being ordered right now – I got some damage there that Bill’s neighbor  John is going to fix – good to know a body man and he knows my car intimately now – this will be the 2^nd hood he’s put on it!  So, this weekend I will be in St. Louis for Aubri’s birthday.

She wants to dress up to go out for her birthday this year.  I think we will be going to Olive Garden and I’ll wear the ‘graduation dress’ that I wore to all the graduations I went to this year… might as well wear it and get some use out of it – I’m hopeful it will be too big next year!

The weekend of the 15^th we will be in Columbia Mo camping.  It’s Mabon festival at Ozark Avalon.  The following weekend (the 22) we will be in Tennessee camping again – another festival that Bill will be vending his woodworking things at.  Then we will be camping in our woods the following weekend for the work weekend for Samhain.  (Lots of camping in September!)

October is filling up fast as well.  The first weekend we will be in Arkansas at his family reunion.  I am going to try to get him to bring the trailer so we can bring back a beautiful statue of a Goddess that we’ve looked at for two years!  I want to put her in the Hawthorn grove but we will need the trailer to lay her down for transport.  I’m hoping to talk the owner down another $100 this year so that she will be affordable.

The weekend of October 13 will be our Samhain festival (more camping) and then we will actually have a weekend off on the 20^th before my niece gets married on the 27^th here in St. Louis.  Whewww – lots of weekends full of stuff!

Back to this weekend – we puttered around outside whenever we could – did manage to get back to the woods for a little bit on Sunday just to sit and relax.  Bill ‘fixed’ the drive where the electric went across and the ground was sinking – he filled it in a bit so that there isn’t such a dip now.  We really need to rent a disk and disk the entire yard up to level it – but that is going to have to wait until we are ready to start putting the yard back together after construction!  We still have to pull the old rock house down – all but the few walls that are still solid and move the mound of dirt back behind the ‘barn’ to cover the septic tank and drain pipes.  We have the whole west end of the yard to clear out yet and plant our orchard.  I keep telling him we need to get to that so that the trees can start growing and setting fruit… ah, just another one of those projects that gets put off. 

You see this is how we get off on tangents in the yard and house – we see something that needs to be done and we drop what we are doing to go do it… then we have all these half done projects.  I doubt we are the only ones who do this but it is a bit frustrating to the Capricorn in me!  J

Anyway, between puttering outside we watched a lot of Farscape this weekend.  I own all the seasons (yes, I’m a Sci-Fi geek) but I didn’t have the final movie to tie everything back together so I’ll have to look that up at home and see if I can find it.  I had forgotten my Nook at home (Gasp!) so I watched a lot more TV that I usually do.  May have been a good thing since I finished the book I was reading last night in about 2 hours and would not have had anything else to read… no internet connection at Bill’s house yet so no downloading of new books!  (Another thing to add to the list of to dos!)