Good weekend

Neil and I had another lovely weekend. Nothing specifically wonderful happened but this morning I have the feeling of just finishing a good weekend. I've designed a few new cards and become a little ahead of the September birthday game (and finally caught up on a very delayed graduation card). Neil has been working on a new project which he's excited about, I like it when he's excited. Unfortunately, I feel kinda guilty because I'm finding this project difficult to get behind. I'm being as supportive as I can and I'm sure it will look wonderful when he's finished. I just get nervous about building a large water container from scratch and projects that mean Neil's testosterone levels sky rocket. He's not very relaxed when it comes to the frustrations of diy (do-it-yourself). So far so good though.

It was a good weekend despite watching some bad films. We watched Ju-On: The Grudge 2... please don't bother. I'm easily scared by horror films but even I wasn't convinced by this one. I don't remember seeing the first one, but Neil says this sequel seemed like they were just cashing in and lacked the story to do a decent job. We did watch the whole thing though, which is more than I can say for Hellboy. It was recently on telly so we thought we'd see if it was worth going to the sequel which is coming out in the theatres now. We won't be going to Hellboy 2. Which is odd, because we've really liked other things involving Guillermo del Toro.

It was also a good weekend despite our suffering garden. We took in our last tomato harvest, and it's a big one. I need to find space to ripen tomatoes and things to do with them after. Tomato blight hit the crop again this year, but counting or blessing we at least managed to ripen some tomatoes this time. We won't be deterred! We'll just rotate our vegetable plan and try again next year. In the meantime, anyone have a great recipe for tomato sauce that I can keep in cans to use for pasta and pizza over the winter? I mowed late yesterday, about 7pm (I can do this because it only takes a half hour to mow our grass, at the most). After finishing we had a wander around the garden pointing out the good, the bad, and the ugly. The ugly was already gone since we'd taken out the tomatoes on Sunday. But the bad is that we have a lot of hard graft planned for the winter in the form of digging over lots of soil, digging out lots of rubble to possibly extend the pond, and digging in more soil for the front flower beds. Lots of digging. We also need to plan the vegetable garden a little better so we order our organic seeds and start our plants off on time. The good is the fabulous looking decorative corn and things we learned from all the herbs and flowers and vegetables we planted this year. Gardening has a steap learning curve, but it's very rewarding and there's always next year to do improve. I'll try to add a picture of the corn later when the sun comes out (hopefully).