Fall Leaves and Turkey Dinner

In honor of a hard working great husband I decided to serve my own hard working great husband. I decided that on one day I would do a project that Chuck has been wanting to do, but unable to because of travelling for work. Chuck likes to work in the yard, but just hasn't had time. I decided that I would spend the day cleaning up the leaves in our yard. It was hard work! I used the lawn mower to mulch most of the front yard leaves and dumped them in the beds around the bushes. It then got really difficult in the ditch, so I raked them onto a tarp and hauled them to the back yard to our compost area. Luckily, by that time the girls were home from school so I had some help with the tarp.

I only was able to get the front yard cleaned up that day. I had worked for about 5 hours on the front and did not know when I could get to the backyard. While I was working a guy from a lawn service came to my neighbor's house to give her a quote on cleaning her leaves and saw me working. When they came back to do her work a few days later, he came over and asked if I needed any help doing more leaves. I negotiated with him and got a good deal on his guys to come finish the backyard for us.

On the same day I was very ambitious and decided to cook Chuck his favorite meal - a full Thanksgiving turkey dinner. We went on a last minute vacation this year for Thanksgiving, so I did not cook our usual dinner. I made a whole turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, candied carrots, and homemade cranberry sauce.

It was a great day to totally devote to Chuck in honor of Mike McBride.