Busy Weekend

We had a very busy weekend. Saturday we went to the Arts and Crafts Festival. I enjoy going to this festival... I always get inspired to be creative. Or at least inspired to want to be creative, whether I will actually do anything about it, is another question! I did find one idea that I'd like to try, but I'll blog about that another day... (And aren't the above paintings adorable??)

We can't seem to resist taking self-portraits wherever we go. (And what is it they say about couples who are together for awhile... they start dressing alike?? I think we're wearing the same color shirt... totally an accident... I swear.)

More art for sale. Cute sunflower lawn ornaments.

This morning we went to the Regional Market Flea market. We bought a couple of things, one of which is a "Chip n Putt", a little golf putter game. (We ended up having to buy a putter too, which we tried to get a the Flea Market, but failed...)

More flea market items for sale...

Another treasure we found at the flea market was a tree-trimmer. We bought it for $12. And came in quite handy today! We really needed one too. Tomorrow the house painters start painting the house (if it stops raining) so we needed to trim the trees away from the house. (And I mean "we" as in "Eric".) I did help clean up the branches though...

He cut this tree back pretty well. It was a mean, evil tree. We both got cuts and thorn pricks all over our arms and legs... But we did it! Then we trimmed a few other smaller (less mean) bushes around the house.

Some other highlights and thoughts of the weekend include:

1. De-flooding the basement during/after a major downpour.

2. Keeping the weekly food bill around $50. (And most of the food was bought at Aldi!)

3. The Sunday paper started arriving in our mailbox today! No more having to go out and get it.

4. BBQing twice and almost getting to eat on the deck twice. (We were lucky to get the 2nd BBQ done before the skies opened up!)

5. I've written about this family before, but lately I've been following them on Twitter. They're going through a difficult time with their little boy, he's in the hospital and not doing well. Please send thoughts and prayers to them...