We Labored for Larbor Day

For Dave's birthday I got myself a gas fire table. (I got him the Uof O letterman's jacket I earned and he coveted.) I have really wanted a fire table for years but they are expensive and not really something on Dave's capital budget (or want) list. Recently, I actually gathered the materials and have been planning how to make a funky one out of re-claimed redwood from the old yacht club docks. A trip to the high end patio furniture summer sale relieved me of the construction task (disaster). Though it is a bit fancy for our place, the price was right.
I did almost catch my hair on fire the first time I lit the fire table. The ignition switch is now up wind of the prevailing evening winds. Thursday, I made a "do before winter" list of chores to get done. We spent the weekend checking off items on the list and now we are exhausted.
Some of the things we accomplished: my dog rig now has breaks that work and a basket; we dug a 12" deep x 300' long ditch to hopefully decrease the standing water in the garden (Dave with backhoe -me with shovel); about 1/4 mile of our drive has been weed-eated by Dave; the tractor runs again; I canned 60 lbs of peaches (yum!) and picked 2 gallons of blueberries; the dogs got pedicures; the entire lawn is mowed; the sprinkler system for the gardens is almost working; we even threw in a trip to Costco and the local True Value. The to-do list is still long but some of the biggies are now behind us - and I have breaks!
Drinking a glass of fine wine while sitting by my new fire table was the prefect way to relax after three days of hard work.