Monday... Again?
May. 8th, 2017 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse Ah, it's already Monday and I have to go to work in about an hour. (I work at 10 am at the White Bear Lake branch, and it takes me a little over a half hour to get there.) Somehow I got through the weekend without doing my homework for class tomorrow night. I have a feeling that there will be much panicked reading this evening. :-P
On the other hand I did manage some gardening. I should take a picture of the amazing bleeding heart that we have in our faux Japanese garden. (I would love a legit Japanese-style garden, but I think the closest thing I can hope for is to emulate the aesthetic of one. I'm just not that tidy and organized a gardener.) The bleeding heart is huge and gorgeous, and inspired me to pick up a couple more bleeding hearts, because: damn. I should also connect the hose to water the new plantings. Last week I didn't have to remember to do that because I was basically gardening in between the rain showers. This week looks to be fairly dry and sunny, so I'd better get out there and water things. It'd be stupid to do all the transplanting and planting just to have everything croak.
Sunday, Mason's baseball team did a fundraising gig at the Cub Foods on Larpenteur Avenue. Nine of them working as baggers raise a couple hundred bucks. When I picked up Mason, coach made sure to let me know that Mason "had good hustle."
Here's a picture our friend Sean Murphy (SMM Photo) took for us at last Thursday's game:
Pretty good action shots. Of course, Murphy is a serious sports photographer and you should have seen the size of his specialty lens! Huuuuuge, as 45 might say.
Speaking of fundraisers, though, Mason is going to suggest the whole bagging thing to his Wind Energy Teacher/Advisor. His wind team still has a couple thousand dollars to fundraise to make their goal, and so they're looking for ways to make that difference up in the next few weeks. My friend Naomi thought of a rummage sale for charity, and so we've cooked up something with one of the other moms from the team. Gods know, Shawn and I have a ton of stuff to contribute. We don't really have a great place to host it, but the other mom does, so fingers crossed that we can raise a few more bucks for the kids that way. I mean, obviously, having made it past their deadline, Washington Tech is committed to sending these kids to Anaheim, but it would be nice to continue to lighten the school's burden. (You can still donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/help-send-us-to-kidwind-nationals). They leave on the 23rd of this month. We're hoping to have the rummage sale that Saturday RIGHT BEFORE they leave, May 20th. I'll post details about hours and location here and on all my other social media outlets once we have everything firmed up.
That means we're starting to eye everything in the house with the "can I sell that???" look. I think the cats will be lucky to escape without being tagged "$10 OR BEST OFFER." ;-)
Right. I should go get dressed for work. See y'all on the flip side.
On the other hand I did manage some gardening. I should take a picture of the amazing bleeding heart that we have in our faux Japanese garden. (I would love a legit Japanese-style garden, but I think the closest thing I can hope for is to emulate the aesthetic of one. I'm just not that tidy and organized a gardener.) The bleeding heart is huge and gorgeous, and inspired me to pick up a couple more bleeding hearts, because: damn. I should also connect the hose to water the new plantings. Last week I didn't have to remember to do that because I was basically gardening in between the rain showers. This week looks to be fairly dry and sunny, so I'd better get out there and water things. It'd be stupid to do all the transplanting and planting just to have everything croak.
Sunday, Mason's baseball team did a fundraising gig at the Cub Foods on Larpenteur Avenue. Nine of them working as baggers raise a couple hundred bucks. When I picked up Mason, coach made sure to let me know that Mason "had good hustle."
Here's a picture our friend Sean Murphy (SMM Photo) took for us at last Thursday's game:
Pretty good action shots. Of course, Murphy is a serious sports photographer and you should have seen the size of his specialty lens! Huuuuuge, as 45 might say.
Speaking of fundraisers, though, Mason is going to suggest the whole bagging thing to his Wind Energy Teacher/Advisor. His wind team still has a couple thousand dollars to fundraise to make their goal, and so they're looking for ways to make that difference up in the next few weeks. My friend Naomi thought of a rummage sale for charity, and so we've cooked up something with one of the other moms from the team. Gods know, Shawn and I have a ton of stuff to contribute. We don't really have a great place to host it, but the other mom does, so fingers crossed that we can raise a few more bucks for the kids that way. I mean, obviously, having made it past their deadline, Washington Tech is committed to sending these kids to Anaheim, but it would be nice to continue to lighten the school's burden. (You can still donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/help-send-us-to-kidwind-nationals). They leave on the 23rd of this month. We're hoping to have the rummage sale that Saturday RIGHT BEFORE they leave, May 20th. I'll post details about hours and location here and on all my other social media outlets once we have everything firmed up.
That means we're starting to eye everything in the house with the "can I sell that???" look. I think the cats will be lucky to escape without being tagged "$10 OR BEST OFFER." ;-)
Right. I should go get dressed for work. See y'all on the flip side.