Bocce and Yardwork

My new thing this year has been taking a walk as soon as I wake up. Most people including the dog walkers aren't out yet. And I don't have to worry the rest of the day if I'll get my steps in.

Somehow I did not know. Ha. Well, probably cause I was sleeping.

Theo is invited to a birthday party next week so we went to our favorite toy store, Pinwheel, to find a gift.

We got a gift and the kids split their money to buy a butter shaped squishy.

Since we were going to be in Linden Hills, I brought along our bocce ball set to play at the Linden Hills Park.

We've played in our backyard, but because our yard is lumpy we sometimes lose the pallino in the grass.

Probably my last porch lunch of 2025.

I needed to clean up all the leaves in the yard and convinced the kids to join me if I made them a big leaf pile.

I thought I'd just add all the leaves to our compost bins but they filled up pretty quickly. I ended up having to run to the hardware store to get yard bags.

I then met up with friends for dinner at French Meadow.

Back from Boston, I decided that I'd take the kids to Hibachi Buffet over on Lake Street in our neighborhood. The kids didn't tell me they weren't particularly hungry. Ah, well.

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