The weather has very cool again. The boys ditched their shorts and reverted to long trousers and fleeces for school. After breakfast I continued with my path, put a few plants in and dug over the bed in front of the barn and added a few of my Mothers Day plants in there. Now when I look out of the kitchen window it will look very colourful.
Huffle donned his lumberjack gear and lopped at the big cedars in between us and Otto. Wow, what a difference. It's a bit ugly (there will be adjustments later) but the light streams in now. Hopefully he will have taken down half of our mosquito population too.
At lunchtime we popped out to a hardware shop and ordered some trellis for round the pool area (as we have no plants or trees around there now and it's nice to be screened when we are in the pool). We also ordered some slabs and sand and they will all be delivered on Tuesday. We had to pay a deposit which which be refunded when we bring back the 'skid'. We translated this into Pallet (which is what it is called in their brochure) and I asked the lady behind the counter why it was called a Skid and not a pallet. She said because you are British and we are Canadian and laughed singing Potayto Potarto Tomayto Tomato. We had a look at plants but were very uninspired today.
We had lunch and abandoned outside work due to rain (but we did pack our tools away Grandad). This afternoon I cleaned the bathrooms and started painting the shelves in my bathroom.
The boys came home and we played a game of Catan (Smallest beat us!) and then I made dinner while they played on their tablets. We had dinner in front of Ninja Warrior UK and then played a couple of games of Stack 'me up.
Yesterday Smallest came home with a note that said there was a Spring Concert at the school (first I had heard of it) and it happened to clash with the boys first football session. We told them to tell the teacher they wouldn't be able to do the concert. Today Smallest came home and said he had told the teacher but the teacher asked how many football games there were and that he should come to the concert because there was plenty of time for football. We disagree, the first game of the season is important as it puts the kids in their correct teams and we pay a lot of money for it. The concert is out of school hours. It is wrong for the teacher to say that a school concert is more important than football, especially when half of the kids are missing from school some of the time due to hockey commitments. Is hockey more important than school, than football? Outrageous!
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