Oh my aching muscles

My body is so sore!! In the last two days I've done more manual labor than I've done in the last year combined. It's my own fault. After the whole 'snake incident' I was too scared to work in the flower beds. But after four weeks of neglect - the yard was much scarier than the snake (who we found dead, by the way). I have weeded, cut back all the little flower corpses and planted some new ground cover. My nails are munched, my hamstrings aren't going to let me run in the morning, and oh, my aching back!

And I have tackled another project. I was given some old patio furniture and a really old kid's bookshelf from my grandma. She just moved out of her house that she lived in her entire married life. Sixty-one years. That's another story that deserves more time than I can give it right now. Back to the old furniture.... So I'm stripping layers and layers of paint off, then I have to sand it all. It is such a process! I have chemical burns all over me from the stripping stuff. (And yes, I did end up sitting on some - OUCH!) I've decided to let this project sit for a while. I wanted to post a picture of the progress I'm making, but I doubt I'll be able to lift my camera for a week!

Just a few minutes ago the phone rang and I asked Cameron to answer it because I couldn't jump up fast enough. She answered and said, "Hello this is Cameron. Who's this? I'm helping my mom right now. She's going to freak out if anyone asks her to do anything else right now." The best part is that I have no idea who it was. It was an out of area number and whoever it was told Cameron that they'd call back. So if it was you, I'm sorry and call me tomorrow.