A Day Off!

I always dread the beginning of the month because I'm usually working and don't get much accomplished at home.  There are 4 librarians where we work, so we each take a weekend to be in charge of the building.  I always take the first weekend, which I don't mind, but who wants to work weekends?  Anyways, I'm very behind on blogging, so I will write a quick, but possibly long update.

A few weekends back, Jon and I spent way more money than we should have and spruced up our little backyard.  The majority of the weekend was spent trying to get rid of rocks.  Living in a desert environment, rocks are huge in landscaping.  They take up space and don't require a lot of maintenance. Jon and I aren't fans though, so we opted for a dark mulch.  We planted some juniper trees, which will eventually allow us some privacy, and of course flowers, flowers everywhere.  I LOVE the flowers out here.  Lots of delphinium, peonies (which we didn't get, but I REALLY want some at our next house), columbine, etc.  I love the colors in our backyard. We also got some honeysuckle, clematis, and raspberry to grow along our fence and some strawberry plants, which we hope will do well next year.  The only problem with all of this?? The DOGS.  They love eating mulch and Quincey completely toppled one of my beautiful delphinium plants a few days ago.  We have some areas fenced off, but can't find enough fencing anywhere around here.  Also, our grass is completely destroyed from their urine.  I'm very happy they almost never have accidents in the house, but our grass is paying the price.  Even with the crappy grass, we're very happy with our backyard and love eating on the patio set on the cool Colorado evenings (yes, it is still cool here.)

About a week later, we traveled to Georgia for Memorial Day weekend.  This was the first time we had both been back in almost a year and it was a delightful visit.  I am particularly impressed all that was accomplished during our visit.  Jon and I traveled to Gainesville our first full day back to visit the Brenau library.  I left with a tear in my eye because looking back, I had the best job and worked with the best people.  I was so lucky to get a job like that straight out of graduate school.  We also managed to see Ashley, Adrian, Chris and Margaret, and also accomplished our main objective of surprising Jon's mom.  His dad wanted to throw a surprise party for Karen's 60th and have a lot of visiting relatives be the main surprise.  So he flew in relatives from Massachusetts and Minnesota, and we flew in from Colorado.  Karen was completely surprised, so mission accomplished.  I also got to spend some time with my parents and even visited a store that Bakerella likes (to the envy of some Colorado friends)!  I might just make some cake pops today.

So what do we have to look forward to this summer?  It's going to be crazy for me since summer in a public library means summer reading program.  When I can get away, Jon and I will be camping and exploring this place and hopefully one place in the Poudre Canyon this summer.  Jon's parents are visiting for the 4th and we'll be headed down to the Springs with the dogs in tow.  My parents will be out in the middle of the month and I hope to do some Wyoming explorations with them (and watch this).  Yes, Wyoming is my favorite state.

I plan on posting pictures of all this at some point.  For now though, it's on to positing some book reviews.  I need to catch up with my reading challenges!