Another busy weekend...

So my days are backwards, but I'm not rearranging the pictures!

Sunday we headed up 49 to Murphys, CA, a little spot on the map, for a small VW gathering. We were in and out of some rain the whole way there, but the 2 hour drive was beautiful and well worth it once we go there.

On occasion, the boys hold hands with out prompt. They did this a bit on Sun and it makes me giggle every time.
There's a great park where the show was being held, right next to the creek/river that runs through the area. The boys really enjoyed this part of the trip.

Then we walked around and did a lot of this. Pointing and oohing, and ahhing. Tyler was sure to let us know, "that one has no hood on it!" if the case was so.
This area is also part of Calaveras county, home to all things frog. Every year there is a frog jumping competition in the area, complete with a festival. We will be going at some point, because you can't not go! So once we hit the county line, we saw statues and pictures of frogs everywhere.

In front of the library in Murphys:

Fire station in another town...

Real Estate office...

Cute worldly shop, donning the international frog...

Then there are the stickers, on the side of the chief's fire truck...

The street signs...

On the sidewalk...

Street light banners...

Then, set up like the Hollywood stars, all the former winners from the jump. Listed with the frog's name, distance, year and owners.

Yep, we'll be hitting that festival in the next couple of years.


Saturday was spent hanging out with Tyler. Keith and Cody left early in the morning to go drive a Smart Car in a St. Patrick's Day parade in Roseville. He had a blast! They had a red convertible, he was able to stand up and wave during the parade. Then went to breakfast with everyone else from the dealership that participated.

Poor Ty was stuck with me and the weekend shopping. But he didn't have to ride in the cart and was able to help be get things down and put things away, so he was happy!

Once everyone was home and down for naps, I set out to finish some gardening in the front yard. We asked Keith's sister to get us some mulch from the utility dist for free, so that gave me something to fill in the dirt bed with. It's not the prettiest of stuff, lots of leaves and such, but it will pack down some and then we can get some "pretty" bark to put on top of it. Only needing just a bit, instead of the whole bunch we would have needed to fill in the whole box.
I'm also trying newspaper as weed block for the first time. You lay down a thick layer of newspaper, soak it with water, then put your mulch/bark/rock on top of it. It decomposes naturally, and makes like a paper mache' block against the weeds. It has to be replaced yearly, but most the stuff you use needs to be anyway.
So here's the finished project, new flowers planted and a couple of statues moved to center stage.

The square pot has a few strawberry plants in it, so we'll see what that does.

The next yard project is to do redo the beds under the front windows. Two snarly rose bushes, weeds and weird grass are currently residing there. Their eviction notice is coming!

Do tell...
Is it too ghetto to plant a pumpkins in my front yard? Not like as the front yard, but in the bed under said windows?