I cooked a hot breakfast for the kids for years, though there was a point in time, when we got moved into the apartment after the divorce, when I realized we were toasting a lot of bagels. I didn't want them to remember bagels as their childhood meals. Oatmeal, pancakes, eggs, French toast, Jimmy Dean sausages, baking powder biscuits, blueberry muffins, lots of fruit, typical breakfast things, though as my son got bigger and wanted protein before big tests, I'd sometimes cook a chicken breast. Unusual, but it worked for him.

Today I filled three wheelbarrows of wall mortar and filler and dumped it in the way back part of the yard. More progress on wall in keyhole garden (I was using some of the mortar chunks to support the wall, but decided to pull it out), and I moved finally to wall construction in front of the berm. I mixed up two bags of Quickrete and dumped them in each end of the little trench I dug in front of the berm. Those are to support the ends of the wall. I didn't have enough to put concrete in the entire length of it; I could go buy another five bags of the mix and put it in, but I think I'll use sand instead. My main interest was to have a solid surface for the ends where I want to put in a more ornamental stack of rocks. The base isn't very wide front to back, it will only be one stone deep (this isn't a two-sided wall). It's about 12 feet long, six inches across, four inches deep. The rocks will go on top of this. The other think my bricklayer said (guy at work answered some questions about this project) is that I could get cinder blocks or concrete bricks and put a layer of them in, or sand and then these things. I will use a level when I build it.

I forgot to water part of the garden, but it is supposed to rain tomorrow. If it isn't raining by morning I'll run the soaker hoses.

Bread is put away, 1/2 in freezer, 1/2 in bread box. Dogs washed. They'll get their Revolution in the morning. It's overdue, but within an okay time frame still. Dishes doing pretty well, still didn't fold laundry. Time for a motrin after all of that yard work.

SRS