It rained overnight. It looks like a cloudy day lies ahead. Yesterday was sunny and gorgeous and we got quite a bit of work done outside. I cleared the garden beds, Don took down the old chicken wire, we raked a ton of leaves onto a tarp (several trips to the yard refuse pile) and I mowed the corral and the lilac side of the lawn. I’m slowly getting back to outdoor-work-shape. We also taped an audition for Don. All of this before 12:30! We came back in to dine on a soup that Don had made the day before.
There’s still lots and lots to do outside, but we’re taking our time.
Looking at the low temps for tonight and tomorrow night which will be in the mid-thirties, it seems like the best day to start getting plants from the nursery will be Tuesday. After we get through Monday night, the nighttime temps should be in the forties and fifties.
There was more Christopher and Jenny watching yesterday, along with our groundhog eating the grass right outside the kitchen door when a bird called rather loudly and he panicked and ran across the yard to the shed. So cute!
I’m almost done with the puzzle. I expect to finish today. I really love this one – the colors are so beautiful together.
I hope you’re all well. I’m gathering that you’re all outside now, doing house and garden things. Enjoy!
Stay safe.
Happy Sunday.
wow … you and don accomplished a lot yesterday! good thing you enjoy gardening and lawn work. and the forecast sounds like you can get more plants soon … hooray!
glad you saw the wrens … and the groundhog up close. any idea if it was shifty or not?
hope today is another good day for you. best wishes to don on the audition.
had a nice time with some members of my family yesterday … went for a walk, then for a long ride to see some countryside and the biggest lake we have around here.
my boss and i talked some last friday and i’m expecting to have a talk with her and our old boss tomorrow about the job situation. it doesn’t sound good. she said at best my job might be 20 hours a week or could likely be eliminated completely in a couple months (he aims to retire by july 01 and she in september). they both want me to take the biggest job there and i don’t want it. prayers appreciated! thank you.
in the meantime, before i get to spend time with members of my family (still social-distancing), i am distracting myself by listening to/ watching some old gino vannelli concert videos online. :)
happy sunday.
kathy in iowa
Oh boy! Gino Vannelli!
I’m sorry to hear of his difficult decision ahead of you, Kathy. I don’t know what I would do in your place. Just know that we’re all sending you our support!
Stay safe.
thanks, claudia.
the job they want me to take is the top job … full of meetings, paperwork, budgets, inspections, supervising staff members, taking care of the physical property, handling complaints (which are daily) and vendors, etc. while i appreciate they think i could do that job, my current boss has clearly said it would benefit * her * if i took that big job … and it would mean supervising her until she retires (weird situation). i know i have skills that could transfer and believe what it says in the Bible, that i can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, but i don’t want that job. beyond not interesting, it would be way too much stress for me. and my old boss has told me several times over the past ten years that he is glad he gave some of those duties to my current boss (way to make a job sound appealing, huh?). it would be doing stuff she does full-time and he now does in 18 hours a week … and I am to do that in 40 and “probably get a raise”? no, thanks. i have absolutely no interest in that job nor much pertinent experience (and that was 22+ years ago). not a good situation … but i will do what is right for me.
anyway, thanks for listening and for your support.
kathy in iowa
Good for you, Kathy.
xo
and yeah to gino. :) his voice is so good and i just sing along (badly) to some fun and beautiful songs i know by heart from happier days.
hope you are having a nice day. stay safe!
kathy in iowa
xoxo
I love that puzzle too. The colors are so cheerful.
I am amazed that you accomplished all that by 12:30! It would have taken me all day for sure.
I enjoy watching our birds and wildlife here too. Yesterday I was sitting at the kitchen table talking on the phone when a hawk swooped around our yard. I think he was after a chipmunk but didn’t get him. The hawk landed right on top of our bird feeder and perched there for a minute. I have never had one actually land right in our yard, and so close. I was stunned and couldn’t get to my camera quick enough. I hope I see him again…such a beautiful, powerful bird.
I think you and Don deserve a rest day today. Happy Sunday!
They’re gorgeous, but I chase them off if they’re swooping on to my property! Sorry you didn’t have your camera close by!
Stay safe, Marilyn.
working outside is not for me, I would get in my husbands way. But I do have a full plate of sewing chores that need to be done. And cleaning. We have both shots and our daughter her first, so we are getting there.
Glad you’re getting there, Jan! Soon!
Stay safe.
Loved the puzzle so much found a used one on Ebay to buy. Now, how to put it together someday without the cat moving the pieces! Counting the six days to be able to go to the grocery store for the first time in a year. Funny, everything I really want is some Michigan product that I haven’t eaten in so long: Andrulis Baltic Style Farmers Cheese (Lithuanian), etc.
Plus the dream of getting MI sweet cherries from Traverse City, some Morels from the mushroom guy. Bliss.
You have a mushroom guy for morels!?! That would be so much easier than searching for them.
I’m not familiar with the cheese, but I spent every summer in my teens picking cherries to earn money. I would go to bed and see cherries when I closed my eyes. I live in W MI about 2 hrs south of TC.
I grew up mushrooming with my parents and my Lithuanian grandmother. The trouble with the buying them at the Farmers Market is you have to set a budget of how much you’re going to spend on Morels! There’s also a Fishmonger from Mackinaw City who has fresh fish, smoked fish, and pate. They’re my two favorites. The Andrulis Cheese is made in Fountain, MI, North of Ludington. Carried at Meijer. It’s basically cottage cheese hung up to let the liquid drain out of it to become a solid cheese. If you like Cottage cheese you’d probably like it. I miss the West sidebar the state haven’t been there in 10 years or so. Used to fish out of Ludington. My Mom was raised in little villages on the West Side: Scottville, Dorr, Morley. She ended up attending CMU for awhike then working at Dow in Midland. She said it was such an adjustment as that area is so flat.
It will be here before you know it, Lucinda!
Stay safe.