Not such a lazy Sunday afterall

We ran out between rain showers to wash the car and then do some muddy weeding. The weeds at the Normandale cottage are just ridiculous! I have one control garden where I decided to stop weeding just in case the "weeds" were actually from flower seeds planted by the owner--- well the control garden has revealed that it is in fact full of weeds. The problem is that the other flower beds-that were just weeded last month- look just as bad as the control garden that was never weeded! ARGH! One the bright note, the succulents and sunflowers are looking awfully happy. Well I think the sunflower wishes for more sun but I probably shouldn't project my feelings onto it.

Anywhoo, while I was out front attacking the garden, Bryce came out to visit. We were near our mailbox and he remarked that he wondered why the mailbox is so big-- we only get letters in the top slot. He looked behind it (which meant getting in the wet foliage and evading spiders) and found that the mailboxes do in fact have compartments for packages that can only be accessed from the back. And-- we had a box in there! Crazy! It was from Becky, a fun Christmas present of a Seahawk xmas ornament, a "W" ornament, gingerbread cookie mix, and a cute Christmas card. Luckily nothing got water damaged. As you can see by the mailbox, it isn't exactly waterproof :-)

Erin and Dave left us with some potatoes, so I used up most of them to make cream of potato soup. I used my homemade vegetable broth, just to make myself feel extra "Little House on the Prairie"-y. Bryce even made bread bowls. Pretty awesome dinner; looking forward to gingerbread cookies for dessert!