Cool Saturday Yardwork...& Switchfoot

Today was unseasonably cool, with temps that hardly reached 50. We started early, when it was about 38 degrees outside. We went to Lowes for plants, which you can see in the pictures. Leslie followed Kelly's suggestions, so Kelly, we hope you approve. After unloading the plants, we went down to the yard & garden place on 10th & Joplin and got two scoops of topsoil, which we put down for planting and for filling in the beds near the driveways. You can see the results of our work in the pictures below. Click within the pictures to enlarge them:




We quit about 4:45, after about 7 hours. After showers and a supper of salmon, we went down to Memorial Hall for the Switchfoot concert. Athlete, the band who opened for them, were good, but they were touring without their drummer, who stayed back in England for some reason. So it wasn't such a good performance. These guys are from London, so the British accents charmed the crowd. For 4 samples of their music, click on their MySpace site: http://www.myspace.com/athlete I suspect they might appeal to Kelly & Hannah.

Then Switchfoot came on. Unfortunately, none of the few pictures I took of them turned out well enough to post, so you will just have to be content when I tell you that they were very good. Here's a YouTube link to one of their songs, "Stars," which they opened with tonight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t90B_SRY4Wg&feature=related And here's another one of their older songs they played tonight, "Meant to Live": www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuabRQr0HNo&NR=1 Sounds like heavy metal, huh? And there we were, going on seniorhood! They played some lower-key songs, more melodic songs, too. Overall, it was a great concert, the end to a great day.