I was awakened buy the normal sound of my wife's iPad alarm chime. I bounced out of bed as usual and expecting my wife to shut off the alarm, and she was not there. So I turned off the alarm figuring aliens had abducted her. She was not in the house at all. So I took a shower and the usual things and got dressed. I started a pot of coffee, ate my breakfast, and was working on the second cup of coffee when she appeared in my office. Of course she had really been in the yard planting and tending to the many gardens.
I was summoned to helper duty. We have a fountain in the main front garden.
You can see it in the background from a photo from last fall when the monarch butterfly caterpillars are munching on the milkweed that was planted for them to eat.
We winterize the fountain by lifting the statue off the base, and storing it under a plastic trash bag, and then clean out the base where the water is. Then it is covered with Visqueen held in place with bungee cords. Today, I ""got" to lift the thousand pound (slight exaggeration) statue back up to the base, and hook up the pump.
Then she pointed at some large decorative natural stones she had bought last month and hauled home in the El Camino, that needed to be hauled to the front-east garden, to surround a new plant. She has learned it helps to put large stones around it to prevent the roots from freezing in the winter. Then placed in a particular order to look right. So I got to move them a few times.
Then I was released from duty as Mongo, the garden slave.