I know there are many different ways people spend their Saturdays. When I was a kid Saturday morning was for laundry and cleaning and then outside work in the afternoon...or at least that is how I remember it. For some it is spending as much time with their kids as they can because they are so busy at work during the week. For me it is whatever ends up being dropped on that day...I have learned to be flexible.
Every year in April (on a Saturday)our church gets together all over the southeast region of the US and in their towns and cities they organize with the local community to do a project to better that community. We have cleaned storm drains and creeks of debris and picked up trash and planted gardens. This year we built a community garden.
The boy scouts, leaders and some of the men started earlier in the week to begin assembling the sides to these garden boxes. While the men were doing assembling the first boxes here the girls and I and some of the other helpers planted blueberry bushes and fruit trees all the along the border of the garden area. I wish I got a count of the number that we planted...it was a lot.
We built and filled a total of 36 of these boxes. It took us all day and we had over 150 volunteers working that day in various places around the city. During the filling of these boxes we had over 10 wheelbarrows running nonstop with people filling them with mulch, dirt and mushroom compost. At the end of the day all were tired and walking a lot slower, but the wonderful feeling that we got from serving our community was amazing. These boxes are now available for people in the community to rent for $25 a year.
Some saturdays we spend at church activities for the girls. Basketball is one of them and they have so much fun even though they only started playing 2 years ago. Other church activities include camp meetings, youth conferences and service projects.
Some saturdays here at the farm we have big projects, like when we were moving the carport and enclosing it to make a goat barn. That one took a lot of Saturdays. I try to put some of those fun days in as often as I can, but with all of the work we have here it isn't always possible, especially when we lose so many to other things.
This saturday started out at 6:30 chasing the cow out of the dog food barrel. The rest of the day is Spring Cleaning...technically it is still spring even if it 'feels' like summer here in TN. So I am working on all of those things that got left behind because I am always outside working on farm stuff :) One of these includes reorganizing the storage room. It is amazing to me how hard it is for kids to put things where they found them instead of just tossing it on a shelf. I know I was a kid and I am sure I did this too. The person who figures this out and finds a way to curb the 'tossing' tendency will be a rich person.
So I can barely walk into the storage room because things have just been piled up on the floor and then the piles fall over and then more stuff is piled. Obviously I haven't had need of anything in the storage room for awhile or it wouldn't have gotten like that. So today that room is on the top of my list. Another is laundry. The kids had a sleepover a few weeks ago and all of my afghans and blankets ended up being used. Instead of getting washed and put away then they got thrown in my bedroom. So....I have many loads of bedding that I need to wash and put away. On the bright side the bathroom closet is just about empty and now I can reorganize it without finding places to put everything first..
Now you may be wondering what I am doing sitting here at the computer instead of doing this work...well I am currently waiting for their father to pick them up for the day and not much work gets done while they are getting ready, so I decided to sit here and do a post and when they are gone I will have the house to myself to finish the cleaning.
So happy Saturday to all out there and I hope you are finding something fun to do.
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