Weekend Recap: Memorial Day

Our Memorial Day Weekend was both relaxing and busy. Adam worked in the mornings, and got home around the time Chester and I were getting up. It worked out well for us.

Friday night it was rainy, so we couldn't do any gardening or grilling. Instead, we had a fried food extravaganza with homemade cheese curds (from Wisconsin!), onion rings, and deep fried pickles. Oh so good. We enjoyed relaxing after being gone almost every night during the week.

Saturday was a beautiful day. We finished weeding all the grass out of our garden area, and got most of it planted. I will take a photo to post of all the seedlings once we finish. Chester was outside with us for a little bit, but kept trying to get out of his pen and barking. At 5 pm, we left for the Twins game. Adam's parents kindly gave us their season tickets for the game since they were going to the cabin. It was a perfect night for baseball and actually a good game. It was a pitching battle. We thought the Twins were toast when Anthony Swarzak got the start because Liriano was injured, but he actually pitched really well and had a no-hitter going into the 8th. The Twins came out on top 1-0 with a walk-off single by Danny Valencia. It was exciting to watch! We must be good luck for the Twins because we were at both of their home wins this week.

Twins Game Photos:

Alexi at 2nd base

Playing with the new wide angle lens - Adam

Twins win!

Walking back to our car in Downtown Minneapolis. I just like the Montana sign!

Sunday we went to Roseville to run some errands. We had lunch at Flame, which was pretty good but seemed like every other national chain restaurant. It reminded me of Applebees for some reason. I don't think we'll go back. We did some shopping for an upcoming wedding, picked up our filter adapter for our new wide angle lens, bought Chester a new harness and tie-out, picked up a few things at Target and treated ourselves with new Twins gear for our upcoming Kansas City trip. At the Twins Pro-Shop I got a new shirt, and Adam a new hat. I can't believe our Kansas City trip is this weekend already! I can't wait.

Back at home, we decided to spend some time in the backyard since it was a nice cool night. I worked on weeding the patio, Adam organized the garage, and Chester explored on his new tie-out. I never thought we would get him a tie-out (long leash on a stake in the ground), but his is short enough (15 ft) that he can't get into too much trouble. Plus he will NEVER be on it unsupervised. It gives him a little more freedom to explore and be outside with us especially when we're gardening. I think he likes it a lot. He didn't bark or freak out like he does in his portable pen. The only trouble he got into was trying to eat grass and weeds. Silly dog wants to put everything in his mouth - he's like a child.

 Monday morning we gathered our first rhubarb of the season and made some delicious Rhubarb Crisp. We took it over to Adam's parent's house to celebrate Curt's birthday. We were there most of the afternoon and had a good time visiting and making pizza. Chester likes to run around and explore at their house.

Happy Birthday!

We got home around 3:30. Adam had a headache and took a nap, while Chester and I did some housework including laundry, cleaning, and organizing the pantry. It was out of control! I had hoped to get more done around the house this weekend then we did. Three day weekends are deceiving - you think you have all this extra time, and then it's over! Hope everyone else had an enjoyable weekend!