My agenda for the weekend:

Mow backyard, weedwack & edge front yard (purchase a new edger), weed all the beds in the front yard, shampoo my bedroom carpet, try to fend Nick & Tiff off from "encouraging" me to paint my bedroom, print photos from Colorado, finish Scotland scapbook and start with Greece. Thrilling, eh? While trying to convince Nick that now was not the weekend to paint my bedroom, I blew myself away by how many things are on my "immediate" improvement list for the house: new curtains for the dining room and study, a futon for the study, finish the molding (ag, I finally got a quote, but still haven't gotten around to scheduling it), new carpets, French doors for the study, a bedroom set for me + painting my bedroom, several pictures to be framed, floating shelves for the hallway, replacing some of the cabinet doors in the kitchen, pulling about 5 unwanted trees/shrubs from my yard, adding a porch swing, a big picture for the wall behind my couch...

Last night, I realized that I need to start eating meat again next week to get myself used to it for Peru. Then I dreamt that I worked in a grocery store and I was handing out samples of sweet gherkins wrapped in cheese and bacon. Weird. But I do have a list of things I'd like to eat in the brief period of non-vegetarianism: hamburger, steak, lamb chops, chicken sandwhich, French dip sandwhich, pepperoni pizza. Yum.

Sarah posted pictures of our trip here.

Some of my favorites: