Well, the new garden is finished for now. Bought 16 bags of mulch that surprisingly all fit in my RAV4, without the back seat laid down. I laid mulch except where the seeds and tubers/bulbs were planted. Once those come in, I can fill it in. But for now, here's the before and after:

Of course, as soon as I finish this project, the elm seeds start raining down. I'll be plucking elm seedlings in a week or so.

When I finished with that project, I went for a bike ride to Keller Park, 10 miles roundtrip. I discovered a castle along the way (a MN version haha!):

And someone who had so much money to play with that they spent it on lousy landscaping:

So much going on here with the "landscaping"! So much that it looks HORRIBLE!! Or is that supposed to look like a dollar sign on purpose? Which makes it even worse, if so. Those boulders are tens of thousands of dollars alone!

I have to say, unlike most lake property within city limits, I like how the houses along the lake I live near are small modest homes selling in the $350-$650 range, not like the million-dollar mansions with ugly landscaping like on most other city lakes.

Dinner this week is curried chicken salad with raisins and celery served on toast and, since I had leftover romaine from last week, I'm wrapping the sandwich in lettuce instead of putting it in between the slices, which is actually brilliant, because it keeps the filling from squirting out of the bread!

Honey told me the pork tenderloin I prepared was one of the best things I've ever made. That's quite the compliment and quite the recipe. I dry brined it with salt overnight and then grilled it. He said it had a light crust and was tender and juicy inside.

We had lots of lightning, some big boomers and rain last night. Ended up with 1.25". The rain is needed--it is pretty dry as we haven't had rain since April 27 and my rain barrels were empty. Now they're full. But judging by how much dirt was washed down and onto the paved trail, it had to come down pretty hard. I hope my newly planted seeds weren't washed away. There were fires along the North Shore and in north-central lake country all weekend so I hope they got rain too. Fires have become so normal now when in the first half of my life they were unheard of in this part of the country.

Just read that Aimee Bock will be sentenced this week for her role as ringleader of the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. No one outside of MN mentions that this WHITE woman organized and approved the fraud, using Somali people as pawns to bring in the big bucks for her. Instead, the focus by the gangsters is on Somali people which resulted in the thugs overtaking our city streets, violating constitutional rights, harassing and terrorizing US citizens who weren't white (including daughter's father-in-law), and ultimately the cold-blooded murders of two innocent US citizens by the federal government. Our community was terrorized for 3+ months as thugs tear-gassed, threatened, assaulted, beaten. The rest of the country may have forgotten, but I and many others will NEVER forget. And I will never forgive that person who was once my sister for telling me to quit protecting criminals and child rapists, which essentially called my children's spouses, their families, and my grandchildren criminals and rapists. I am learning to live with the panic attacks that now occur as a result of this trauma on our community. A friend is feeling the same way. And we weren't even directly affected. I have to wonder how those who were directly affected are doing now.

I hope they sentence her white ass to life in prison.

But the Assahollah will pardon her, I'm sure.