Perhaps more impressive than the lemonade stand is the stump from a dead lilac that Julie and Ted (mostly Ted) managed to pry out of the ground from the area pictured above. It was right about where the large green hosta in the front of a row of three coming down the slope now is. At the same time that the slickest lemonade stand ever was being built, Julie was out back tearing out purple loosestrife and ditch lilies in the same picture above, from the lilac in the picture on the right, on over to the fence, and then transplanting most of what you see there now. When she started, she thought she's leave the stump, but in attacking the loosestrife, she dug up a lot of the dirt around it anyway and one thing led to another, and now we have a big stump on the patio to get rid of, but also a beautiful new slope! We'r getting there, Fans.
So now you know how we spent most of this Memorial Day weekend--that is, covered in sawdust, paint, or dirt. But it was fun, as was winding the weekend down with Joe and Clara's friends Eli and Emma and their parents, Molly and Joe. Who would have thought two weeks ago that Memorial Day would bring out the bathing suits and wading pool?
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