This has been a fun week for us. It has gotten allot colder outside. With the cold we are more reluctant to stop snuggling under our blankets to actually get the day going. Colder weather means all that wonderful cold weather slow cooked dinners. Less to do at dinner time but I am doing allot of cooking each morning between breakfast, dinner, lunch and a snack by noon.
This has been E week. It's been fun with Elephants, Eggs, Ovals, Pomp & Circumstance composer Edward Elgar, and Amelia Earhart. Granted we have had lessons after lunch everyday this week instead of our usual 10am. That just means our mornings have been free play with me cooking and our afternoons the more structured part of our day.
I did cave in yesterday and turned on the furnace. It was still 63 in the house at lunch time and when we went out to play it felt warmer outside. It was only 54 outside but the sun was warm on your back. It was 90 a week and a half ago, what happened? I will have to start my marathon leaf raking soon. The yard is actually littered with leaves now. I have ignored them until now because i am stubborn and silly and decided that I would not acknowledged the leaves until it was October. It is now the first of October and the last two cold nights have tripled the amount of leaves in the yard. Ugg!
I think we will decorate the house today for fall. My spring/summer decorations just seem very out of place with the furnace on. Daisy's to fall leaf bouquets & jacks to gourds in the vases in dining room, Flowers to leaves & scarecrows in the large picture window, sandals to slippers by the back door, fans to blankets in the corner, oh yes and the heavy drapes for our drafty windows. Yes it's fall, no more ignoring, I love the fall, but winter was just so long last year, I don't even want to consider winter, and to love fall, to embrace fall, I must consider winter.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
things getting done
This has been a busy weekend. It's been a list crossing off kind of weekend. The kind with a few sore muscles to remind you, that you got a lot done.
Well it finally got warm here. I know it's crazy but here it is middle of may and it is the first weekend that the high was above 50. It was actually 85 today. So with this warm weather Eric and i decided that we should look at the ceiling fans while we were at the hardware store. Then wouldn't you know the fans that we had liked before were on clearance. Now priced at $75 from $105 and only three left one of which was the floor model. So we happily bought the last two fans. We hadn't planned on it but it worked out wonderfully. I am enjoying their cooling breeze now.
Then we said to ourselves we had better buy some edging stones before they sell out. We waited too long last year and the store sold out. While Eric was installing fans i put in edging stones around my pond enclosure and i have almost finished the tree enclosure in the front yard. In between trips to the store for additional stones i removed another six feet of vines from the driveway fence. I also filled the newly fixed wheel barrow with drive way dirt twice. I am slowly but surely chipping away at that project list.
We squeezed all this in, in between two birthday parties. Eric's went wonderfully on Friday. Everyone ate lots of food but only the Hawker's braved the cold to watch the whole movie. Then we went to wonderland for a friend's five year old birthday today. Eric and the girl's mini golfed and had a blast.
Well i am tired and dirty and tickled pink about it. Hope your weekend was good too.
Well it finally got warm here. I know it's crazy but here it is middle of may and it is the first weekend that the high was above 50. It was actually 85 today. So with this warm weather Eric and i decided that we should look at the ceiling fans while we were at the hardware store. Then wouldn't you know the fans that we had liked before were on clearance. Now priced at $75 from $105 and only three left one of which was the floor model. So we happily bought the last two fans. We hadn't planned on it but it worked out wonderfully. I am enjoying their cooling breeze now.
Then we said to ourselves we had better buy some edging stones before they sell out. We waited too long last year and the store sold out. While Eric was installing fans i put in edging stones around my pond enclosure and i have almost finished the tree enclosure in the front yard. In between trips to the store for additional stones i removed another six feet of vines from the driveway fence. I also filled the newly fixed wheel barrow with drive way dirt twice. I am slowly but surely chipping away at that project list.
We squeezed all this in, in between two birthday parties. Eric's went wonderfully on Friday. Everyone ate lots of food but only the Hawker's braved the cold to watch the whole movie. Then we went to wonderland for a friend's five year old birthday today. Eric and the girl's mini golfed and had a blast.
Well i am tired and dirty and tickled pink about it. Hope your weekend was good too.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
What a glorious day!
What a glorious day! My arms are scratched and welted and a little pinker than usual. My hands have at least two blisters and there is dirt under my finger nails. My muscles are a little tired and i am sure that i will be sore tomorrow. Isn't it just WONDERFUL!
I have been doing yard work all day. All of my flower beds have been cleaned up and that lovely winter crusty soil has been all broken up. The large hedge that suffered some snow damage this winter is now 1/2 it's former self. My lilac bushes have all been pruned and the fresh buds look lovely. Snow damaged parts of my rose bushes have been taken care of. As well the over grown, large enough to be a hedge, wild rose bush on the side of the drive way.
My darling husband has been flattening the backyard, helping trim hedges when i was too short, and making sure that his sprinkler systems survived the winter. He is not pink but bright red in parts. I shall be looking for the aloe as soon as i say goodbye. I guess my mostly shady flower beds helped me more than i knew.
Such a good feeling, looking at a full yard waste bin and another pile big enough to make me think "two trips with a truck should take care of that". Flower bed full of tulips stalks and just waiting for more flowers, along with lilac bushes covered in buds, and the stirrings of life in the roses and other bushes soon to be covered in buds. It just makes me think how amazing god is and how blessed i am to see his miracles.
I just saw the husband flinch as he moved his arm. I have to go find that aloe, hold him down, and put it on him no matter how much he doesn't like it. He needs it and it won't get on him any other way. Enjoy the spring folks and don't forget the sunscreen.
I have been doing yard work all day. All of my flower beds have been cleaned up and that lovely winter crusty soil has been all broken up. The large hedge that suffered some snow damage this winter is now 1/2 it's former self. My lilac bushes have all been pruned and the fresh buds look lovely. Snow damaged parts of my rose bushes have been taken care of. As well the over grown, large enough to be a hedge, wild rose bush on the side of the drive way.
My darling husband has been flattening the backyard, helping trim hedges when i was too short, and making sure that his sprinkler systems survived the winter. He is not pink but bright red in parts. I shall be looking for the aloe as soon as i say goodbye. I guess my mostly shady flower beds helped me more than i knew.
Such a good feeling, looking at a full yard waste bin and another pile big enough to make me think "two trips with a truck should take care of that". Flower bed full of tulips stalks and just waiting for more flowers, along with lilac bushes covered in buds, and the stirrings of life in the roses and other bushes soon to be covered in buds. It just makes me think how amazing god is and how blessed i am to see his miracles.
I just saw the husband flinch as he moved his arm. I have to go find that aloe, hold him down, and put it on him no matter how much he doesn't like it. He needs it and it won't get on him any other way. Enjoy the spring folks and don't forget the sunscreen.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Winter can't stick around forever
The sun is shinning!!!! I feel the need to shout that fact from the roof tops. We have been going on walks and playing at the park the past few sunny wonderful days. No more being trapped indoors by bad weather!!
My tulips are coming up through the dirt. They just keep getting bigger. It is so wonderful. I feel like they are laughing in the face of a winter that just won't go away. Can you believe that we woke up to an inch of snow yesterday. It was very depressing. After a week of sunshine and playing at the park, snow was the absolute last thing i wanted to see. Thank goodness that it rained most of the afternoon and by dinnertime all evidence of that terrible snow was gone. Today it is wonderful sunshine again. It's not very warm but the sun is shinning. As long as the sun is shining i don't care how warm it is. We will put on our coats and play outdoors anyway. Anything to feel the sun on our faces. This long dark gloomy winter must come to an end.
I would visit a bit more but this lady has some terrible arthritis in her hand, that is bothered by drastically swinging temperatures. Typing one handed with my left hand is an awkward and time consuming task. Good bye all, we are going to go out and play.
My tulips are coming up through the dirt. They just keep getting bigger. It is so wonderful. I feel like they are laughing in the face of a winter that just won't go away. Can you believe that we woke up to an inch of snow yesterday. It was very depressing. After a week of sunshine and playing at the park, snow was the absolute last thing i wanted to see. Thank goodness that it rained most of the afternoon and by dinnertime all evidence of that terrible snow was gone. Today it is wonderful sunshine again. It's not very warm but the sun is shinning. As long as the sun is shining i don't care how warm it is. We will put on our coats and play outdoors anyway. Anything to feel the sun on our faces. This long dark gloomy winter must come to an end.
I would visit a bit more but this lady has some terrible arthritis in her hand, that is bothered by drastically swinging temperatures. Typing one handed with my left hand is an awkward and time consuming task. Good bye all, we are going to go out and play.
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