"That's all well and good, but I know good and well..."

A three day weekend is nearly over, and none of that time was spent with cats outside our home.  (As much time as possible was spent with Good Queen Swirly.)  Even with 8 hours of sleep a night, that still left 48 hours for doing useful things.  The above expressly excluded baking and eating chocolate chip cookies, making Lindt chocolate pudding, or any other high-caloric sweet treats.  I did pretty well there.

Some house cleaning, some yard work, but also some cinema (finished Zelig, deleted Whiplash after the first scene), some reading, and some drumming.  Even some dicking around with games like Spelling Bee, Connections, Strands, and WordScapes.  

Vacuumed the car... drove to Walmart for potting soil... dug two planters out of the shed and put marigold seeds in the potting soil... used the new weed whacker to clear the area around the shed, and an area on the landscaped island where a new tree is going to go.  That'll be on the north side, while on the southern end the existing ground cover of wood violets will be encouraged to continue to spread naturally.  

But eventually the cherry tree at the south end is going to die and will have to be chopped down.  This spring, there are a very few areas that contain leaves and blossoms, as in the image above.  The rest of it is bare and brittle.  Still, the tree was in just about the same condition last year, and it made it through the winter to our surprise.  Just glad I got some pictures.