We started the week by taking the kids to the first train ride of the season. We are members of the California State Railroad Museum Foundation, and get free rides on the train. We had lunch in Old Town, at the Steamer Restaurant after the ride.
My son finally came over to help with the yard work. We rented a rototiller and bought some sod. I now have a lovely lawn on one side of my house. The other side still needs cleaned up, but I have astro turf carpeting for that side.
He then cut down a few trees that were hanging over my pool, and is coming over today to cut up the branches so we can put them out for the trash people.
I had some luck with a meal experiment. I had an unused package of glaze left over from the ham I cooked last week, so I added it to a pot of pinto beans, along with the ham bone and it made a delicious baked ham and bean meal. In fact, I cooked so much that I put two large plastic containers full in the freezer.