Leaves

The leaves in this area didn't turn until late this year - basically last weekend they were suddenly NOT green anymore and then of course we got some good winds and rain and it seemed that most of the trees shed their leaves all at once. And of course we had a ton of rain this past Wednesday/Thursday which meant that we had to play the waiting game for drying out. Alas, I couldn't wait anymore and so yesterday we did what we could. We started out front and got part of the yard done but we had plans for brunch so we had to stop around 10:00. When we got home (around 1:00) we started again and got the back yard completely done. However, it no longer looks like we did much to it. I plan on coming home today and tackling as much of the front yard as I can. It did rain last night but I'm hoping it wasn't too much and that the leaves aren't crazy wet. Ugh! I'll be happy when this is all over and all the leaves have dropped.

And of course we're supposed to get some good storms overnight tonight. Ugh! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we don't get strong winds. Mostly it looks like the severe storms will be south of the river so that's good. Phew. Randi Rico was teasing for about a 1/2 hour and finally gave me the scoop.

So yeah, the weekend was good. Relaxing. We hung out on Friday and I made dinner. On Friday I did my Freezer making extravaganza while Jim worked (more on that in a minute). Saturday night, after cooking for about 5 hours, I didn't want to be in the kitchen and I had a $100 gift card burning a hole in my pocket so Jim and I went to Seasons 52. Yummy. I really like that place because they have diet friendly meals (I had scallops) and their portions are normal. Sunday, well, I already told you what we did.

My freezer meal making extravaganza...here's what I made:

• A giant pot of meaty spaghetti sauce (I stopped counting at 20 cups)
• 2 eggplant Parmesan
• 4 chicken, broccoli potato bake
• 3 shepherd's pies
• 2 bags of lazy man stew
• 1 Italian wedding soup
• 2 pounds of turkey meatballs (1/2 of which went into the wedding soup) 

I still have chicken pot pies to make which I'll do, probably tomorrow. All of my meals are WW friendly too. I'm ready for winter. AND...I still have a bunch of soups in the freezer from previous meals. Woot!

And that's about all I've got. Tomorrow is Election Day and students don't have school. I have some inservice meetings but I'm also working in my room because I signed up for a "Create your own path" thingy.

Oh, and Jim has a PET scan today. His appointment for the results is next week but I will see the results sooner than that. Keep fingers crossed please and pray that things are still going in the right direction for Jimmy. I feel like we've gotten lulled back into a sense of calm and that makes me nervous.

K - happy Monday...wow this was a long one. Later!