Jane and I at the Elton John Concert
What a fantastic weekend. Friday I got all my housework done so I could enjoy the rest of the weekend and not have to worry about it. On Saturday Amy and Christa forced me to get out of bed at 5:30 so Amy could pick my up at 6:15 to go to the city wide garage sales in LeSueur . I did not need anything but managed to find a few things. The best was the 1960's kids chair. I just could not pass it up it was in like new shape. The grandkids are going to love it. I also got two medal washtubs that I am going to plant flowers in this summer. I was happy to find them and get them at a good price. The girls got lots of good deals on clothes for there kids. While I was out at the garage sales Rick went over to Christa and Jese's house and made Oliver a sandbox. Oliver loves it and the new trucks that Rick got him to play in it with. It was a cold and rainy day so when Rick got home he started a fire in the fireplace. It was so nice and cosy until it gave me a bad bad asthma attack. It was one of my worse ones. Since it was late afternoon by the time I got home we decided it would be a good day for a movie so we rented War Horse off the TV. It was a good movie, but not nearly as good as the book. After that we watched some great fights on UFC.
Sunday I got up and thankfully was able to breath pretty normal again. Since it had rained out the last few days we thought it would be a good day to get rid of some bushes. There was eight or so very overgrown and half dead bushed in the back yard. We trimmed them up last year but they still looked bad and were pretty much just someplace for the leaves to sit on and around in the fall. So we pulled them all out. I am so glad we did when I saw all the bugs that flew out of them. They were also a great place for all the mosquitos to sit it. Now we have to decide what to do with the area. We would really like to dig it out and make the area around the door more useable. Now it is so small that you really can't use if for anything and it pretty much fills up to the top of the walls with leaves in the fall. We are going to have someone look at it and give us some ideas on what we can do so that it is useable and does not let the water run into the house when it rains.
After we got that done I broke out the spay paint and painted a planter that I got for free at a garage sale. And since I had the spray paint out I finally decided to paint Mary. She was long over due for a paint job and looks much better now.
After all of the that the best part of the weekend began! Jane and I went to Mankato to see Elton John! He gave a great concert, singing for 2 1/2 hours straight. He never took a break and pretty much just went from one song to the next. He would sing a song stand up or just turn on the piano bench and say thank you and then move onto the next song. Also when he came back on the stage for the encore he went all the way across the stage and signed autographs for the people in the first couple of rows before singing his last song. I thought that was really a neat thing for him to do and was jealous of everyone that got his autograph! It was a great show and worth every penny that I paid for the ticket.
I was glad I did not have to work today and was able to sleep in. Tonight when Rick gets home from work we are going to try and go for a bike ride. I hope it is not to windy :)
Later Sharon
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