Thanks to rain on Friday, Shane had another three-day weekend. He spent part of his day off in the doctor's office, though, getting meds for a sinus infection he'd been fighting all week.
He was already feeling a lot better by Saturday morning, so out we went. First to drop Kat at her mom's for the weekend, then to Lowe's to pick up a special dryer vent, to a thrift store to drop off a mountain of donations that were in the back of the van, and to the credit union to make a payment on our camper in person because they forgot to include a February ticket in our payment book.
That was followed by an hour-long drive to pick up an almost new tiller from someone who'd listed it on craigslist (the same new one at Lowe's was more than twice as expensive!), followed by a stop to see Shane's dad and step-mom, install the dryer vent we'd bought earlier, and to have lunch with them.
After leaving the in-laws' house, we went to a health food store for some soap making oils, went to a freight salvage store just for fun, stopped at Sam's Club to get a few things I'd missed last time I was there, and we finally ended our day by going to a Chinese-and-sushi buffet before heading home.
We were out for 12 hours straight, and I barely stayed awake until 10:00.
On Sunday, I put in my monthly volunteer hours at the recycling bins. Our city is getting 24/7 recycling bins soon, instead of the one-weekend-a-month bins we have now. That means recycling will be easier for everyone here and no one will have to monitor bins anymore.
It was too muddy for Shane to work outside, so we worked together nearly all day making two small batches of bath soap bars, one batch of shampoo bars, and a batch of solid lotion bars. No pics of any of it yet, but I'll probably take some as the goodies come out of the molds.
We rebottled three batches of kombucha, some with fun flavor combinations, and we got two new batches started. We also used our juicer to make some orange and pineapple juices.
When Kat came home around 5:30 , we made some roast beef wraps with lots of veggies (sub-shop style) and watched a couple of kids' shows on TV with her. By the time she went to bed we were wiped out! We were in bed with our books by 9:00 and were asleep before 10:00.
That's two good weekends in a row for us. We got a lot accomplished and had some fun doing it.
How was your weekend?
