My weekend :-)

Fence Making
Saturday, October 16, 2010
I woke up around 7 am [which for me is early] and went outside to feed my kitty. I still haven’t figured out a name for her… Oh well. After that I had breaky with mom and dad and got dressed etcetera. We finally hit the road and were on our way, and after several discussions upon directions, we arrived at our destination. I had completely forgotten that there was to be fence building that day, so when I saw a lot o people hanging around with hammers and nails and an auger I was a little surprised… I must say pleasantly though.  after saying hullo to everyone I asked Tina what I could do… apparently we were the ones to stand around and point fingers… yay! lol… I finally took Midnight for a jog around the block, thinking I would use up some time. Turns out it didn’t take me very long at all. After a lot of standing around and talking to people who should have been working I went inside [it was about 11:30] and found some pizza to put in the oven. Finally something productive to do! Haha. As soon as the first one was ready I started serving them… now that was a big hit! I guess most people forgot breaky… or they all had hollow legs… or… maybe, just maybe they had been working and were hungry :D. Whatever the case, they gobbled it down as fast as I could bake it and cut it. Forget plates, just set them on a tray and they will disappear in about five seconds! It was fun though. I also baked cookies and fried some ground beef up for the lasagna which would be our supper. While baking cookies I also babysat Andrew, Mike’s son. Cutest little guy EVER… and extremely well behaved. Seriously. The biggest nuisance that he was the whole afternoon was when he was playing on his little laptop, and he needed help spelling a word. Absolutely great kid. When the cookies were finished being made he asked for one… and then another…. and then another! His excuse for the third one was that he had two hands, therefore he needed two cookies. I made do by breaking the cookie in half… I guess that was good enough for the time being. He finally decided to go outside again, so I set to work entertaining him there. Which wasn’t hard, especially when the auger was at work.  I think that I was a bigger nuisance then he was, actually… I was taking pictures almost constantly. I think I took about a hundred in all… :D I think that one of the main highlights of the day was when I got to operate the auger… it’s a two man auger but it had three handles, so Mike had one, Keith had one, and I got the one with the throttle… :D… lotsa fun! When we had to lift it out when we hit a rock or something I think that my share was pure will/effort, and not muscle… :P. or maybe they just lifted extra so that it seemed like I was lifting… I don’t know. But it was still fun. I can definitely feel it now though… lol. I would do it again… it was a lot of fun. And sometimes you get hurt when you’re having fun, but in the end it’s all worth it. A while after that I went inside again and helped Tina make supper, which consisted of lasagna, Caesar salad, vegis and dip, garlic bread, and then for dessert there was apple pie and strawberry cheesecake. Mmmm. So good. I kind of messed up the lasagna though, because when it was done baking the guys weren’t quite finished cleaning up outside, so Tina got me to put the oven on ‘keep warm’. So I pressed the button and continued with what I was doing. When the time came to take the lasagna out of the oven for supper I found out that I was supposed to press end to shut the actual oven off and THEN press keep warm. So the whole time that it was supposed to be keeping warm it had actually still been cooking. I was so mad at myself! I thought for sure that I had ruined supper. Thankfully, once we tasted it, it was actually still very tasty. PHEW!!! But wait! I have an excuse! I had never used that button on that stove before! How was I supposed to know?! :P lol. Oh well. It turned out fine, and I’m sure that even if it hadn’t, the guys were probably so famished and tired that they wouldn’t have noticed :P. After supper everyone kinda just hung out and talked… a nice lazy evening after a long day! I made a few beds for those staying overnight and then migrated downstairs to watch Andrew play wii. Massages were also in order, and I think that they were appreciated.  My aunt Jacquie brought me home at about 11. I was tuckered out and full of great memories. I fell asleep and relived the day to wake up to sun streaming through my window. I stuck my head under my pillow for another five minutes before dragging myself out of bed to meet the new day. I really do wish that I could have stayed, but hey, life isn’t always what you want it to be. You never know. Maybe if I had stayed something bad would have happened, making me wish I hadn’t… highly doubtful, but it’s possible! I mean, maybe I would finally have broken a bone… or maybe I would have burnt some pizza… or maybe… idk. Whatever. Anyway! That was my Saturday! And it was great… how was everyone else’s?!
ttyl!
violet moonbeam
      aka           
heather vm…


p.s. I will post some pictures tomorrow if possible. 