Mother's Day weekend, and you know what that means....flowers! Beth wanted to get flowers for the gardens again this year, so Saturday we did some shopping at the old Sherman & Lin's place. The selection wasn't as great, but we did find a lot of flowers that will look nice. Now we just have to get them into the ground. Probably in a couple days. The weekend was a lot about yard work, too; I borrowed a power washer from a guy at work to clean up the patio mostly. It worked a lot better than the last one I rented from Menard's, but still not as good as the first one I rented, although maybe the grime is just getting more set in there or something. But it did a pretty good job cleaning overall, and I also cleaned up the front patio and the siding on the back of the garage near where the neighborhood cats all spray. 

Another weekend job was to put up a new ceiling fan in Missy's room. Her old fan has been buzzing and blowing out light bulbs a lot lately, so last weekend the girls went shopping and got a new one. The new fan is much brighter and quieter, and it also hugs the ceiling much more so it's easier for her to get in and out of bed. That's always good.

Went out on a bike ride again on Saturday morning even though it's still pretty cold. It was only me and one other older guy (Stuart), and since the A and B groups were going the same direction for the first several miles we tried to keep up. That didn't last long; by just a few miles we were lagging and soon after we told the A leader to just go on and leave us behind to do the B ride. Shortly after that, we lost sight of them. They beat us to the rendezvous point too; we were doing basically the same route except B was truncated, but after a while we would be on the same route again on the way back, so A rode about 10 miles further than B. But we never saw them again. 

Another loss for the softball team. We were never in the game. Never got anything going, and I pulled that sore tendon in my hip again (not like the first time, when I pulled it real bad stumbling down the steps). We couldn't play at anything in that game, and lost 10-0. You shouldn't get shut out in this league... usually you can score runs by accident. Not us though. 

Alex is back to work at Kroger. He had no problem getting the job back: when he went in to ask about working there, they essentially asked him if he could start right away. Like, tomorrow? Today? Right now? So I guess they're shorthanded. He should get some hours, which is good. He needs to find a real job in his chosen field, that he went to college for....hopefully that can happen soon.