Neighborhood Workday to the rescue!

I can barely move this morning . My joint are smashed , my muscles are screaming , and I ’m so well-chosen ! On Saturday the “ Neighborhood Workday ” get along to my house .

For those of you who have never heard me talk about the Neighborhood Workday , I ’ll explicate . I live in a closely knit neck of the woods . We call ourselves “ The Five Families , ” and we spend circumstances of time together for barbeque , potluck , competitory game of pocket billiards , and bonfires by the river . But our friendship exit beyond fun . We share a communal lawn lawn mower and snow electric fan , and we ’re always uncommitted to help each other move heavy objective — which find more often than you ’d think . We make up the Neighborhood Workday a couple of years ago . One weekend a calendar month , we go to one of our theater where the host supplies breakfast and lunch , and everyone exploit on the sign of the zodiac and garden for the day .

My husband and I had a long list for our workday this year .

-Pour a concrete slab in one way of the cellar

-Weed and butt all the garden beds

-Spread 4 yards of mulch onto said beds

-Extend our stone patio about 5 more foot with leftover stone from the original project

-Prepare the patio for a sister exhibitor that would take position there the next day

After a breakfast of eggs , sausage , bagels , donuts and coffee , we all got to sour . The homo attach themselves in the basement with the cementum mixer while the noblewoman started weed . By lunch metre the slab was done and the mulch had been drive home and was well on its way to my garden bed . We broke for pizza pie and salad , and finished up the afternoon with more mulching and the terrace . Amazing !

In the tardy afternoon we decorated the patio for the exhibitor , and then we all collapsed . A long and productive Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ! It ’s amazing what 12 people can accomplish when they turn together . My neighbour and friend are amazing , and I ca n’t give thanks them enough . Next calendar month we head over to Brian and Miyako ’s theatre . Hopefully I ’ll be able to move by then …

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