An Unexpected Dress

I didn't make any plans for Memorial Day weekend. Frankly, it's only one extra day and I have been exhausted from sharing a single car to do what amounts to twice the activities we normally do. Because of this, I planned to spend the three day weekend doing a whole lot of nothing. The weather was perfect for it too, but when I went outside to sit on the stone patio or have tea under the trees, I couldn't get comfortable. Everything was shabby and overgrown and disorderly. Unable to rest, I got up and got busy pulling weeds, sweeping, trimming hedges, cutting down thistles, etc. We bought new plants and created some new little flower gardens. It took two...