Today is a “vacation” day - woo hoo!
After almost 2 weeks that started with planting the 4 boxwoods, hauling/shoveling 2 5x8 trailer loads of mulch, installing edging around the front beds, spraying the honeysuckle & brambles along the fenceline next to the driveway & culverts, & mowing/weed whacking the entire place, plus making lunch (casserole, slaw, cinnamon apples - 3-bean salad & pickled beets were purchased) for a SUV load of mom’s friends yesterday, then took mom to Urgent Care for a problem she had not told me about for 3 days, I am not working outside today or doing anything very physical.
Today, I have done 2 loads of laundry (I have on my last clean T-shirt), baked 2 lbs of bacon & made 2 pints of ghee - before 11:00.
It’s cloudy, 50% chance if rain. If not raining shortly after lunch, I am picking up load #3 of mulch & stashing it in the pole shed. This coming week ASAP I have got to get my herbs & jalapeños planted - a couple are starting to show signs of wanting to be out of their little pots. The sage was in a 2” pot & I did transplant it to a larger cup to give myself a couple more days to get it in a bed.
After hauling mulch, I am settling down in front of the TV to watch the Kentucky Derby & all the races/goings on before the big event. Years ago, I had a Thoroughbred show horse & when she retired, she was a brood mare - 3 foals. Her sire was a race horse in England - he was gray, loved running/winning in the mud. My mare was a bay & was bred to gray stallions - her foals were a gray, a bay, & a chestnut. Personally, I am partial to grays ... go Sandman (VT football team enters the stadium to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”)!
Arkansas Derby win
https://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Sandman
Pulling for your Sandman, since I’m very unfamiliar with the rest of the horses!