Busy in the Gardens

Hello friends! It’s been a busy, but fantastic 2 days around here! We spent some time at the farm and a LOT of time gardening. I’m blissfully exhausted as only spending time out in the beautiful sunshine can make me. I’ll try to let the pictures do the talking in this post!

Breakfasts

Horses…babies and full grown:

Cookies at the farm…

My Father in laws friend builds and flies remote control planes and brought one over while we were there. The dogs didn’t know what the heck was going on!!

DS observing atop a bale of hay;

Came home to a lunch of yogurt/preserves and granola:

Pretty lilacs from the farm and my neighbourhood. These are my favourite smelling flower!

Then I spent this long in my front flower beds:

It was hot, it was messy, but it all looks great now! Once cleaned up I enjoyed a big iced coffee.

Dinner was the last of my corn and bean salad with some pork tenderloin and the last slice of whole grain bread:

We spent the remainder of the evening visiting my parents and watching Day Breakers. Not a great movie, but Ethan Hawke is easy enough on the eyes. ;)

I hit the backyard gardens after breakfast this morning. My Dad brought his rotatiller over and turned all the dirt for me. I spent a total of 3hrs on just ONE flower bed. There were SO MANY roots and weeds to dig out. Now it’s ready for some perennials so I don’t have to go through that again. I broke halfway through for some lonchi:

Apple & almond butter, 2 Yves veggie dogs stuffed in a WW pita with ketchup, mustard, relish and romaine. I don’t really even remember tasting this! I also consumed copious amounts of water. Another camera shy iced coffee made it’s way to my belly after a delightful shower.

Dinner was a very simple to make mushroom ragu from the last issue of Clean Eating magazine:

I served myself a generous bowl and ate it with a toasted Ezekiel muffins that had goat cheese on it.

Nom, nom, nom! Dessert was a half melted, no time for a picture Skinny Cow ice cream bar. I’ve also eaten my share of coconut carob pecan oatmeal bars over the past 2 days! ;)

I’m off now to make a tea and relax with a magazine out on my deck. The temperature is perfect for it at this point. Hope everyone has had a marvellous Monday!

Bye for now!!