Monday and eating German!

I got home early since I had a meeting at our Building 50 ( 1/2 Mile from my house) at 4:00 PM that didn't last the whole hour. I changed clothes and went out to work in the back yard. I picked up the mess on Jake's patio from the gutter cleaning and deposited it into the sand box. My plan is to use all the leaves I can find to build up the dirt level (it's currently about eight inches below the top of the sandbox). Then, I'll top that off with all the compost I can dig out from my compost heap and finally add store-bought garden soil to plant the vegetables in.

I got the whole section of my south fence cleaned from the gates to the concrete pad where the trailer and sailboat sit. I spread around the leaves and stuff in the sandbox, then used the hose to wet it down good (to aid in composting).

Since I had the area raked, I spread grass seed around. Then I hooked up the sprinkler and watered it all. I mulched the small garden on Jake's patio, since I was out there anyway. I finished up around 7:30 PM.

I have a treat tonight for an appetizer. My friend B___ apparently has had a hankering for a dish his Mother used to make around the Christmas Holidays. So, last week, he made up the pickling brine and started the five-day process to make sauerbraten and red cabbage. I was intrigued, so he brought me in a Tupperware container with a few bites of the sauerbraten with the pickled red cabbage and spaetzle. Excellent! Wish I had more (as I understand it, this was all he managed to save while it was being devoured at his house). I guess if I want more, (and I do) I'll have to check out a recipe and make it myself.

So, I started watching mindless TV (I was tired and didn't care, really). Carla's Mom called and said she was worried, because she'd been trying to reach them and nobody was answering. I explained it was a beautiful day up here in Michigan and they were probably outside, working in the yard (turns out they were).

I was hungry now, so I warmed up two hot dogs and ate them on whole wheat buns with yellow mustard and sauerkraut. I fell asleep watching TV just before 10:00 PM, woke up at midnight, turned everything off and went to bed for real.