Lovely weekend

Luckily the rain didn't come until last night so we had an extremely productive weekend.

On Friday evening, Daniel met me on Rt. 29 at the Northwest Branch Trail. We did about a six-mile hike, finishing right as it turned dark. I think it made Laika nervous to be in the dark because she kept stopping to listen to things in the woods and she was always about 30 feet in front of us urging us to catch up. She also had an excellent dive into the river, going fully under water, which she didn't like much. But she loves to just doggie paddle along. We rounded out the evening with late-night Chipotle...always appropriate right before you go to bed.

Saturday Daniel used a roto-tiller meant only for midgets or Mexicans to till up a 30x13 vegetable garden in his parent's backyard. So we played with poo a lot and got the soil all good and pooish, and then planted about 40 plants including 3 kinds of tomatoes, squash, zucchini, millions of cucumbers, watermelon, cauliflower, bell peppers and cayenne peppers, and collards. Now we just have to figure out how to keep the deer away from it. Is anyone at that point in their life where they're losing clumps of hair and care to donate? Supposedly human hair is a great deterrent.

We finished Saturday night drinking ridiculous amounts of beer and liquor to celebrate Meg's thesis presentation being over. Yea Meg! And boy is she smart. I hope that she didn't kill too many brain cells that she can get through her last final on Tuesday! I also ate the hottest chicken wings of my life, and hope to basically never eat chicken wings again.

Mother's Day was excellent on Sunday, with excessive amounts of tomato and cheese. My wonderful hubby helped me prepare eggplant parmigiana and fresh cheese manicotti for our parents.