This past week certainly felt more like a week and a half. I started last week at the bottom of the karma wheel with a bout of food poisoning starting in the wee hours of Sunday morning and lasting through Monday. No details needed but I think I can honestly say I was only awake for about 7 out of 48 hours.
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| Can art. Theme was ending hunger. |
As the week went on, my karma took its sweet time improving. Tuesday, on my way to work I pulled over to heed the low tire pressure my car was indicating and came face to face with a lovely screw stabbing my front, driver side, tire. Lovely. Later that evening we took off the flat tire and mounted the donut, and slowly maneuvered our way to Costco to order 4 new tires. I was in need of tires anyway, so no worries, simply let the bad times roll off my back because my luck will undoubtedly improve, right?
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| Tron bike made from beans. Ironic? |
Not so much. The karma gods were enjoying a mighty hardy chuckle when on Wednesday morning at 5:50 AM I managed to get three toes stuck under the back door while letting Jackson back inside. How does one get their toes stuck under the door you ask? I can't be too sure, since it happened so quickly; however, I'm pretty sure it was a wicked combo of two thoughts, move foot and move door, and only one synapse firing. Needless to say the door moved, leaving the toes to get sucked under in a merciless toe vacuum. With Toby observing me quite intently I managed to maneuver two out before calling Jonathan who kindly, despite my weakest efforts to discourage, gave the door a quick push releasing my slightly mangled toe. Despite a bit of toe pain, the situation was far too bizarrely entertaining not to laugh about. Happy mid-week.
Thankfully Thursday and Friday went off without a hitch paving the way to a pretty darn good weekend. Saturday morning we visited the Scottsdale Art Festival, enjoying on going live music performances, artist's booths and eventually making a purchase from an artist (Chris Vance) who drove down from Des Moines, ID. For lunch we both enjoyed delicious food from two popular Phoenix food trucks. I had some tasty lumpia (Filipino deliciousness) from Hey Joe, and Jonathan enjoyed a delicious dog from Short Leash. The food trucks park in various parts of Phoenix during the week and can usually be found down town for first Fridays and at the farmers market on Saturday. Their fare is definitely worth making the trip down town. After the festival we again took on the task of moving the rock river. This section of the river was possibly the worst phase since who ever put the rock in this section went a little over zealous with rock installation. Jonathan finished up the day by pick axing the boarders of the river to reveal even more hidden rocks. The fun never ends.
Sunday morning we finally finished removing our blasted rock river. Wheel barrel load after load we trucked the rock to our back yard, which has now become a little reminiscent of a landscaper supply store. Just when we were about to shower off the layers of sweat and dust we had both accumulated our first craigslist responder arrived to take some of our red rock. As much as we both wanted to take a break, helping this lady in her tight jeans and tiny tank top proved much more to our advantage than letting her work alone. What we accomplished in a good 20 minutes of solid shoveling may likely have taken her hours to shovel. We're quite delighted that people have actually been stopping by to take from the massive pile since the more we can give away, the less we have to pay to get hauled off.
Progress from this weekend continued today with Jonathan staking out the front yard in prep for the small retaining wall that we'll construct along one side of the house. This weekend we will likely be driving all about the state to check out rock colors, sizes and styles, as well as retraining wall construction materials. The completion of the front yard isn't quite within reach, but the continuing progress has been very exciting indeed!
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