Engulfed

Wow, the last week has been a blur! I can't figure out what I've been doing to make it fly by...I guess when you deal with time at work the way I do it really gets lost on ya! I want to say it's been a great week...I was lost in it all really and can't seem to separate one day from another. I've been reading and everyone know what happens when I start reading....I finished Twilight and am on to New Moon...holy moly! If you want a TRUE love story then this book is awesome! Ten times better than any smutty Danielle Steele novel!!! I guess because it really invokes the emotional aspects of relationships. Penn makes fun of me because it's about high school-ers but I explained that 64% of the readers of the series are adults...for obvious reasons...sweltering, romantic characters wrapped all in a world of their own.

In between chapters we finished our gardens...looks like the forest floor to be honest. Our canopy of oaks and hickories doesn't provide much sun (oh yeah, the veggie garden failed...) but provides GREAT SHADE :) We planted 6 flats of purple fountain grass on one side with azaleas in and out (in addition to the huge oak leaf hydrangeas in the back!) Very tranquil...

Up front we put in a 6ft spruce topiary (Gorgeous!!!!) with a few roses in front. It's really looking great. We found these HUGE rocks we dug up and placed them in the garden in the back and I can't even explain how breathtaking they are. I find it phenomenal that we found these in our back yard let alone barely lifted them out of the ground. We found a HUGE flat one but can't manually get it out...it would make a GREAT table top...eventually :) One has fossils in it and the other is like a stool...flat top and two legs! We didn't discover that until we started washing off all the mud but it is truly miraculous...to think water flowed constantly over it to create that...in our own backyard WHO KNOWS how long ago!!!!!! REALLY make you think :)

Also, I've been running :) My friend whom I work with (shall remain nameless but if you work with me then there is NO doubt who I mean!) and I have been running on our lunch, I really want to do the St. Jude half marathon...Sarah, you better be training!!! Neal also has been stretching with me, he's asked to go running and he really wants to do yoga with me...soooo cute!!!

(Hehehehe, I just wanted to post another picture of Edward Cullen...YOU'RE WELCOME!!!!!!)