A No-Labor Labor Day

For Labor Day weekend, my family and I went to visit my sister Debi and her family. After five hours of driving, we were exhausted, but ready for fun.

Here was the best part: I scored a dill plant and several seeds for dill, cosmos, and marigolds. Wahoo!  And I learned that if you wait until the flowers are brown and "crispy" (Debi's word), you can pull apart the flower and find the (free) seeds. How did I never know that?

Crispy is a very good description, no?

And there are the seeds!

Unfortunately, my dill plant looks a little worse for wear. Hopefully I can coax it back to life - otherwise, I will have to start the dill seeds and get that going. 

Grow, little dill plant!

So what did we do this weekend, other than play with seeds?

The family went canoeing, swimming and fishing on the reservoir...though not all at the same time. We picnicked with extended family to welcome my nephew's baby into the family. We bought pies (Veyo Pies) and thoroughly enjoyed eating them.

The kids fought...a lot...and spent many long time-outs in the corner. The boys especially were so tired. But they powered through it. And so did we.


Honestly, I loved it. The fun times were WAY more fun than the bad times were bad. I spent an entire evening being giddy with my sister. What's more fun than that?