Life got in the way

So this whole training thing is really hard when you have two dogs and full-time jobs.  Oh and you want to tear up the backyard to make a berry garden.  So yeah, that's what we spent our weekend doing.  So much for those 7 and 6 mile walks last week!  To say that we are a little behind is an understatement. Oh and it's raining today.  So much for that 5 miles too.


We spent last Saturday out in the sun (I had the sunburn to prove it!), digging up a nice little acute scalene triangle in the backyard for our berries.  Now you would think this would be an easy job.  It took all day.  After a full day of tilling, digging, planting, and mulching, we have 12 raspberry plants, 3 blueberry plants, and 20 some strawberry plants.  However, all that hard work is all for nothing.  I have to wait a whole year to actually eat any of the berries!  What is up with that?  LAME is what I say.  Someone has been reading way too much about how to care for his plants.  Ugh.


Then on Sunday we had to redo the veggie garden since our first attempt was an epic fail.  Andrew read up about lasagna gardening.  The weekend before someone was very grumpy because it was too windy and the newspaper kept blowing away.  We'll see if this whole "lasagna" thing works out.  Personally, I was all for tearing up the grass, but whatever.


Back to training.  Everyone has said that the fundraising is the hard part, which is totally true.  We are still pretty far from our goal.  However, finding the time to go on all these walks is difficult.  Andrew works from 7am to 5:30 on a good day.  And, you know, me as a teacher, I get to school right before the kids do and leave just after they get on the bus, HAHA.  There are days when I get home later than Andrew and usually leave school with a list of things still to do.  Although we have the best intentions in the morning, those walks get really hard after work.  But we still have time, right?


And if we still have time to train, you still have time to donate!  A big "thank you" to those who have contributed to the cause.  I cannot thank you enough!