We have been fostering our youngest since he was 6 weeks old, he’ll be 2 in July and he is now ours. Fostering through Quebec is quite different than fostering through Ontario. And adopting between the provinces is challenging. So now finally everything is in Ontario and we are officially on adoption probation in our province. They say in about 6 months or so they will write a report and voila a judge will sign the last bits of paper and we never have to have Children’s Aid in our lives again unless we choose to foster again.
This weekend was all about the yard. It started a bit slow on Saturday when I noticed a yard sale on the way to get the baby-sitter. There was a really nice dumping wheel barrow there. After I brought the babysitter to our place we loaded up the van with the trailer and headed off to get 50 free dri-core sub floor boards. Then we headed to the garage sale and got the wheel barrow ($25), a seed/fertiliser spreader ($10) for the tractor, a thatcher ($25) for the tractor and several tools like a sledge hammer, rake, crowbar etc, all of those were $1 each. The trailer was full and we only spent $68. Pretty good deal I thought. Those dri-core sub floor boards are over $6 each and we got them for free. Once we get to turning the basement window into a door then we can work on the flooring and finishing of the basement. But that will be more of a winter/bad weather project I think.
We visited a friend on Saturday afternoon as well, nice to have the time to socialise now that not everything in the yard has to happen on Saturday and Sunday.
On Sunday, today, I weeded the victory garden, probably 100 dandelions removed and then weed whacked the grass in the garden and then put 4 bags of mulch down. I need maybe 10 more bags though just to cover what I have. Then I want to reshape it into a circle to make it easy to mow around. I need more perennials though. I just put the mulch over the grass so I hope the grass dies and doesn’t try to grow through the mulch, we’ll see how that works out.
I also weed whacked around several trees, the front porch, the sign, basically until the gas was gone. GJ and his dad cut down a crocked and ugly pine tree and pruned many of the other trees in the front, so when I go around them with the lawn tractor, I won’t get beheaded.
Tomorrow will be another adventure. I am finally putting up some pictures.
