I’m back at work after a lovely four-day weekend with my ladies, where we didn’t go far from the homestead but got a lot of important things accomplished:

• Drained and cleaned one of the water barrels
• Moved the remaining container vegetables inside the greenhouse
• Took Jen in her inaugural first trip in the Scout
• Spent money at the Home Depot
• Mowed and edged the lawn (again, a three-week lapse)
• Mulched the flowerbeds
• Patched the side of the garage where critters have been entering and making nests
• Cleaned up the backside of the garage (moved large auto parts into the eaves)
• Brought in the lawn furniture
• Moved our brickpile from the driveway to under the porch deck
• Fixed the tailgate latch on the Scout

• Took the girl for a 1.5 hour hike with Mama
• Removed one of the legacy phone jacks in the dining room
• Battled an angry wasp infestation under the ledge of Finn’s front window (more on that story from Mama)
• Cleaned the front gutters
• Covered two open outlets upstairs
• Sprayed a radiator cover and the bifold doors to the pantry with two coats of bright white trim paint
• Finished trimming and caulking the new iceroom window in preparation for paint
• Started wrangling the data cables in the basement into one group and adding them to a punchdown block
• Fired up the furnace for the first time this fall
• Looked for used radiator covers at Second Chance (no luck)

• Cleaned the first floor of the house
• Picked apples and pumpkins with Finn and Mama

And just for the record, those are the best apples I’ve ever eaten.