This country isn't so bad afterall

As I'm sure you already know, Barack Obama has enough delegates to be the presumptive Demcrat party nominee for president. This makes me absolutely ecstatic! I watched his victory speech on TV that he gave at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN and wow am I impressed. Was an amazing speech, very passionate and well delivered. Hopefully come November he will become our next president.

I took the week off from giving plasma, and I'm going back tomorrow. Easy money! On the 11th, it is our 3 year wedding anniversary. We don't have anything planned yet and probably won't be taking a trip to Minneapolis like we did the last two years. With gas prices the way they are it would pretty much cost $30 in fuel just to drive there and back. Right now, that is a lot of money to us, so we're going to just keep it low key.

We have started a project in our backyard and hopefully we can get it done soon. There is a pathway made up of some bricks and they really didn't do a good job with it, they are uneven and not placed well. We pulled them all up and we are going to lay new ones down. A good friend of the family donated about 30 of them to us, we just had to pull them up out of her yard but they were ours to keep. They are beautiful blocks, 18" by 18". We have been digging up the path we are going to place them in, and digging down deeper so we can place a layer of sand first to help stabilize the blocks. We are also going to make a 54" by 54" patio right off the end of our deck which I'm sure we'll find a nice use for.

It is pretty hard work since we don't have a wheelbarrow, I am shoveling the dirt into a large container and carrying it about 30-40 feet over to where I am dumping all of it. The digging is easy but carrying the dirt is hard hard work. I would say we are over halfway done with the digging which is going to probably be the hardest part.