As night follows day, the last of the anxiety (and I suspect a small bout of depression) has washed back out to sea for the time being. On the plus side, the episodes are nowhere near as frequent as they used to be. But when I am unprepared, they do come with a small cost. Just the price of being me I guess (insert one of my famous dramatic sighs here 😁).
So, I did take my own advice (sort of) and spent the weekend mostly caring for my mental health. Saturday, while the landscaper was working, I went to see my horse, Sabre and lasted about thirty minutes in the heat/humidity (it was brutal at 10:30 am 🥵) before heading home to check the status of my backyard. It may be hard to see in the pictures above, but trees were taken out by the pond, opening up the view, and a retaining wall was put in. The next phase is to seed the area below and possibly on the side of the retaining wall with winter rye in the fall to give it some ground cover, then seed with centipede in the spring, as well as putting some plants in above the retaining wall. I’m not sure the steps on the right are going to stay, I don’t know that I like the looks of them 🤔. What do you all think?
The downside of Saturday? The bug bites I sustained while talking with my landscaper 😡. My legs look like a weird outbreak of chicken pox. I guess I should take it as a sign that I have tasty blood. Good thing vampires aren’t real, right? 🧛🏼😱
My Sunday plans went off without a hitch. I spent most of the day just relaxing until I had to meet my high school friend for dinner. Did I mention I had to drive an hour and a half one way? It was the closest he was going to be to me, so I piled in my car and took off. It was really a nice drive up to Charlotte, especially on a Sunday as the traffic was light. We spent two hours or so catching up and I realized, thanks to FB memories, that’s it only been about 9 years since our last visit. Better than 12 years, but still not great 😬. Definitely worth the drive though 😊.
Tomorrow I hope to be back to my not so cutting-edge humor that I’m sure you all come here to read (self-deprecation to the end 😆). And you know what we may need to discuss? I’m in Love with a Mama’s Boy! It’s back and I am here for even more WTF nonsense from these mothers and sons, so buckle up my lovelies 😁.
Note: I’ll take pictures looking up to the house soon.
My Lemons My Lemonade 