Upsetting Grandad

After a few weeks of adventures, this weekend was designated a relax at home weekend but we could actually call it, upset Grandad weekend. We’d started upsetting him earlier in the week by getting an American flag to put up in the house. Then today started with the Norwich, Liverpool soccer rematch. When they met earlier in the season it had been a very stressful time in the house with Grandad upsetting a couple of children! Fortunately we all went out and had champagne and everything calmed down!

This time Grandad wasn’t here, luckily for him, because the Canaries were snuffed out and lost 3-0. After this we went to get ourselves some retail therapy – we hadn’t been shopping since Wednesday!! First stop was Sports Authority where Harry got an American football and Toby got a Messi soccer ball. Their Christmas money from Grandad is still going strong and they are making some wise purchases – not tat anyway!

After Sports Authority we went to the Issaquah farmers market. It closed down over the winter but started again last week. It’s been almost a year since we had proper English bacon so we went straight to the “Proper English Bacon” stand and stocked up. We went for 4lbs of bacon, some sausages and a couple of pork pies. It all came to $54 so it better be good! Harry also bought a tomato plant which he planted later this afternoon.

Before heading home we stopped at Lowes to get some picture hanging wire so that I could hang the flag in the hallway. After getting home and putting the picture up it we were all ravenous so we went to Red Robins and spent our vouchers on burgers, root beer floats, wine and cheese sticks! Yum! As we hadn’t been shopping for at least a couple of hours we decided to go again! This time it was to the Home Depot where we bought something else to REALLY upset Granded – another American flag and flag pole to put on the garage! We also got some bark chippings ahead of a spot of gardening.

The flag went up:

And very good it looks too. There is an upside for Grandad though, within 5 minutes of the flag going up a bird had crapped on it! So it will have to come down for a wash! Despite this set back, the front yard looks a bit tidier. The lawn was cut – the third time since I’ve been here – the bark chippings went down – we need a lot more – and Harry and Toby collected the remains of the laurel bush clippings.

Progress has been made but more needs to happen tomorrow after more chippings have been collected from the Home Depot.

So there we go, two American flags and Norwich got thrashed – that should upset him!!