I don't know, 3 days in a row of eating real food, I could get used to this!
Saturday morning I had toast and then headed out to a place 3 miles east of Sandy, OR to buy some trees from a guy off Craigslist who was selling evergreens, 5 for $40 for 5 footers. By the time we got home with them, it was time for me to rush off to my facial appointment (why do I ever think I will look good after a facial?) and then came home and ate a hotdog and then we had to rush off to Beaverton (practically Hillsboro) to pick up two red tipped Photinia Fraseri bushes for FREE off Craigslist. Someone was re-doing their backyard and they weren't a part of the plan, so we dug them out (super easy, with shallow roots like they had) and plopped them in the pickup and took them home and got them in the ground. PERFECT cover to hide the nasty neighbor behind us. I wont be happy till we completely obscure that stupid pink rope he has strung between the posts of the property line. Anyway, got the other 5 in the ground before we were beat down tired (he dug 6 of the holes, I dug one) and I named all the evergreens so I could remember what kind of tree they were. Alice is an Austrian pine, Bob is a Balsam pine, Doug is a Douglas Fir and Greg and Gretta are Grand Firs. The Photinas don't have names. I'm not sure why.
Then we showered and headed off to Suki's and had the best damn cheeseburger ever. And then we went home. Because our normal KJ was off "sick" (we heard hung-over).
Sunday morning, 158.5
Food detail:
1 slice ER honey white - 65
1/2 tablespoon I can't believe its not butter - 23
98% fat free hot dog - 40
hot dog bun - 110
fortune cookie - 25
1/4 lb cheeseburger - 552
french fries - 112
Hornsby cider - 180
Breyers ice cream sandwich - 160
total = 1266
Then Sunday we were supposed to drive to a place south of Salem, OR to pick up some poplar trees, but the guy claims to not have a phone (?), would only communicate by email, and wouldn't give an address (only "directions") so we told him to screw it (nicely), and headed out to do a tour of all the garden centers we could find. We started local at Portland Nursery which was WAY overpriced, headed to Tony's Garden Center in Gresham which was slightly overpriced, though we may go back there for some little hedge plants to fill in the front fence and get a lilac tree, then we headed down towards Woodburn to Garden World. On the way, we stopped for lunch at Boston's Grill and Pub in Wilsonville since we'd only had a slice of toast for breakfast again. Third day in a row of read food. Cheesesteak. Wow.
Then continued down to Hubbard, OR to Garden World and were SHOCKED by the prices there, being so far out of town. We were decidedly down about our plan, we made one last stop at Lowe's on the way home and got a STEAL on a 7 foot Austrian Black Pine. It was marked down to $40 from $80, but it rung up at $25! We also picked up a great big English Laurel for $25. We took them home and hot Arnold (the Austrian pine) in the ground, then nearly KILLED ourselves trying to get the Laurel in. Our own fault, but we wanted the laurel halfway up the hillside in the corner of our property. Do you know how hard it is to plant something on a nearly vertical incline? Man, you spend half your energy just trying to stand upright! Mark dug most of the hole, with me balancing slightly below holding a pot to catch the dirt in, but it was still too shallow. After he was beat, I took over and got the hole deep enough and then we wrestled the easily 75lb bush into it. I mean, this sucker came in a 5.5 gallon pot. It was NOT small. Then we ended up collapsing on the hillside, sitting around the bush, shoveling in the fill dirt by hand. There is a photo on Facebook of me about halfway through this part, but my terribly UNhelpful little helper Leeloo.
After all that, we still had to run to the grocery to get food for the week, and then it was salad for dinner and Netflix.
Monday morning, 158.5 lbs
Food detail:
1 slice ER honey white bread - 65
1/2 tablespoon I can't believe it's not butter - 23
1/2 a Philly Cheese steak (which is called a Pepper Steak deluxe on the Boston's menu) - 261
fresh kettle cooked chips - 140
Caesar salad with fresh homegrown radishes - 184
SC carmel cone ice cream - 170
Pringles 100 pack - 100
Snackwells fudge drizzled chocolate chip cookies 100 cal pak - 100
total = 1041
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