Disc golf!

Jason and I tried out a new sport this evening...disc golf...and it was a lot of fun! There were 18 "holes" just like in real golf, but we only played 16 because our hands were getting sore from throwing the disc (an expensive frisbee). The holes wound us around a wooded area that had nice trails to walk on if you weren't playing disc golf.

Luckily we only lost Jason's disc once (he had a wicked curve), but my keen eye found it after about 5 minutes of searching. We've determined that a yellow disc is not the best color. It really blended in with all the greenery and when the sun hit it, you could barely see it. Mine is a bright pink color, so it was pretty easy to spot.

As promised...

As promised, here are the pictures of our new plants in the front.

What a busy day!!

Jason took today off, and it was fun and filled. We started out around 7:00 this morning by going to my school. He helped me hang up posters, and I sure did appreciate it. We got done in about 2 1/2 hours compared to probably 3-4 hours if I would have done it by myself.

We left the school around 10:00 and stopped at the landscaping place on the way home to look at plants for the front. We made some notes and took it home to discuss (can't rush into anything with Jason). We decided on what we wanted to do, and then ate lunch around noon.

At 12:30 we went to the golf club house...to rent a golf cart!! I told Jason that I would go with him if we got a cart. He obliged (thankfully!). It was a little slow going at first. There were a ton of people out there, and we got stuck behind a group of three and a guy by himself. After the first two holes, the guy in front of us said that Jason could hit with him if he wanted to. We had a great time as you can see from the photos below.



We got done on the golf course around 4:45, rushed home, and left again. We had talked about the plants while Jason was golfing and decided to go ahead with them. So we rushed to the landscaping place since they closed at 5:30. We ended up buying two hydrangeas, two boxwoods, and two rhododendrons (pictures to come!). After we unloaded the plants from the car, we went to Subway for supper, and then headed to Menards to get some dirt. Got home around 7:00 and immediately started planting. We worked until we couldn't see anything anymore. Unfortunately we only got three plants in the ground, so we'll finish up tomorrow and I'll post some pictures then. What a busy day!

All in a day's work

We started working on the landscaping project this morning around 10. It was sprinkling, so we worked in the front since there's a lot of tree cover. I guess you could say we did a little bit more than anticipated. It started out that this project was just rock/mulch removal. Now it seems that we're doing a full blown landscaping remodel. See the 'pretty' bushes in the front??

Now you don't! It looks totally different and sooo much better. The rock removal was being hindered by the bushes, and I hated them anyway. Jason was like, you wanna take those out? I excitedly said absolutely! So they're gone! And boy was it tough work. Those stumps and roots were a pain to dig out. We'll be sore tomorrow!

I have no idea what happened, but during one of our drink breaks, Jason dropped his can. It was the fastest I'd seen him move all day. I guess he didn't want to waste too much of his precious beer.

Landscaping...a back-breaking project

This morning we started a landscaping project that's going to be a lot more work and take a lot more time than I anticipated. I knew it'd be hard work, but geesh...this is rough! I think that when it's finished, it'll look really nice though. We're replacing all of the timbers with small boulders and all of the mulch/river rock with something else. We haven't decided what kind of rock we're going to put down, but we don't want mulch and the bigger rock isn't conducive to growing plants, so we thought it was time for something new.

Unfortunately, we don't have a truck. Jason's poor little car was loaded to the max (well maybe not, but we didn't want to test the max out). In our first trip, we hauled 506 pounds. Can you believe that just around that tree is a quarter of a ton of rock?? Crazy! Then we went back and hauled another 464 pounds of rock. We put the rock in the trunk and in the backseat to distribute the weight, so that we weren't dragging the ground.


Today, we just laid down the edging around one tree, so here's the before...

...during (Jason is obviously slacking off a little bit)...

...and here's the after!

Fun with Matt!

On Friday night, we went out with our friend Matt. We met for dinner at Kelleher's, an Irish pub on the riverfront, and then we went to a Peoria Chiefs baseball game. It was probably one of the best we'd been to...no we didn't win, but the entertainment was phenomenal.

Here's a really funny video of one of the ushers. During every break in the game, he would be doing this...I don't see how he wasn't exhausted or injured by the end of the game! The guy is wearing a blue shirt in the middle of the screen, so look past the heads of the two women in the forefront. Hilarious...



This was actually one of the "real" entertainers for the evening. His name was Myron Noodleman, and he had about three or four little routines, but this was was the best.



After the game, we went back to Matt's apartment for a little Guitar Hero!

They were definitely in concentration mode here.


So, we couldn't help but take a picture of our "band". Notice that my microphone is wireless, but the guitars aren't. Well actually...my microphone is a flashlight...but it looks pretty good, don't you think??