Wayne and Erika Pfeiler

It's very nice to have a day off once in a while. I think it helps people to be more productive at work when they get time to rest and do non-occupational stuff occasionally.

So Erika and I ran out to Lowes and got some stuff for the house. We came back and built a new raised bed on the back fence line with landscaping timbers. I made a nice brick wall style pattern at the corners, and locked them together and into the ground with 12-inch galvanized spikes. A sledge hammer would have helped a bit too. Erika planted some cool-weather vegetables and flowers in the raised bed.

Next we set up a new sprinkler to water the grass in the back yard. This is something that's bugged me for a while. We have tons of mosquitos that love to hop on me everytime I'd go out back to water the grass with the handheld sprayer. This sucked and made me itchy. So now I can turn on the faucet in the morning, eat breakfast, and then turn it off, all mosquito-free! It works pretty well too. I set out a bit of slow-release fertilizer in preparation for fall over seeding.