Charge away

What is a charger?
a. a member of the San Diego football team
b. a model of a car made by Dodge
c. large decorative plates used to dress up dinner tables at parties, weddings, and other special events (taken from wiki)

The correct answer in this context is C.
The reason I know this is because of my mom's entertaining skills. She has Armetale and gold chargers that seem to only creep out on special occasions. They look very fancy and brighten a place setting when paired with white china.

So, I was thrilled when I came across this deal in my mound of shopping e-mails today. As I probably have mentioned in earlier posts, I'm a fan of World Market. They have some great, inexpensive entertaining products. The e-mail was for all World Market members (it's free and requires a phone number at checkout) - 2 gold or silver chargers for $5. What a steal!!! Although they are made of lacquer this is still worth the deal, especially if you only bring them out a few times a year.

In addition to the gold ones, they have some chic rattan ones that would be great for patio entertaining.

Saturday in the Park, I think it was the fourth of July...

Okay, it wasn't the Fourth of July and it wasn't in the park. It was last weekend in my backyard...

Last Saturday was very productive. With some encouragement from Truss, he and I spent most of the day working in the yard.

Apparently I underestimated what tools were necessary to do yard work. There were a ton of weeds and vines that needed to be removed. The grapevines were tedious, but easy and could just be pulled up. The larger weeds, on the other hand required a shovel, which required a trip to my parent's house to borrow theirs. In addition, we also borrowed some weed-killer - yet another yard element that didn't occur to me.

Besides the heat, it wasn't actually too bad. We dug up weeds and dead plants in preparation for something prettier in it's place. Probably sod and plants, which likely won't come until it cools down here.

After sweating buckets, Truss left to do some errands and came back with what I call a KEY item for any homeowner. Introducing the economical and efficient Garage Door Keypad!

It was pretty easy to program and install and I'm so glad to finally have one. This is great for people (hopefully only ones I know) to get into the house if needed, while I'm away.