long awaited, and dearly appreciated

The weekend weather, that is. We were blessed with an absolutely amazing HOT day on Saturday, and man, did it feel great. It's not really normal around here to have 28C weather in April, but who am I to complain? And yeah, I did actually hear people complaining it was too hot, and wanted to smack them. I'll take that type of weather any day over a snowstorm, thank you very much.

We spent our weekend here finally siding the shed that Bob built, almost *ahem* 3 years ago. It's been sitting there pathetically for 3 winters now, wrapped in Tyvec, and when a friend offered last week to come over and help us do it this weekend, I nearly kissed him. I wanted it to be a surprise, but there was no way I could go out and buy all I needed alone (due to having bad math & carpentry skills) so I had to tell dh the plan. They have a wee bit left to do on the front peak for next weekend, but for the most part it is DONE, and the neighbours can finally stop ribbing us about our eyesore 'condo' in the backyard. Ugh. I'll post before and after pics once it's all done.

This is what I did while the guys hammered:

Our yard is big, and there's always so much to do in Spring in terms of cleaning, raking, digging, transplanting, etc. This year I'm going to put individual planters on top of my garden in hopes that it will choke out the ginormous weeds that overtake my veggies every summer. It's yet another huge project, but it will look much nicer and grow better too. I'm good at getting everything planted by May, but tend to get lazy once the hot weather hits. And I can't stand weeding, ( can't bribe the kiddos to do it either) but I do love being able to eat freshly picked organic veggies, so this is the payoff. Lots of hard labour ahead!

I'll leave you with a layout I did for Kelly Purkey's sketch classes on 2 Peas. Yet another beach layout. It's very simple compared to Kelly's and Stephanie's, but I like how it turned out all the same. I realized when I saw the other versions that I do tend to take a literal approach to sketches. ;p

It's another beautiful day here, and I'm off to rake my front flower beds and wash the patio furniture. I'll be spraying my adirondack chairs some funky colours too. Hope that turns out the way I've envisioned!