One of those things...

 One of these things is just like the others.

What do these 3 things have in common?

Issues with the mower.

Well, new to me mower!  My brother brought me his old mower, which actually used to be my dad's!

So it means a lot to me that I get to use it now.

However, Mark wasn't even home yet (3 hours away) with his trailer when I mowed the back yard and the belt fell off.  It was sheared.  We don't know how that happened.

He's getting ready for Burning Man next week so I don't want to impose on him again, however I did call him about some advice a few, maybe more, times in putting the new one on.

I finally got the new belt on and finished the back yard today.  Took it over to Meri's and did her yard too.

Before I even attempted this today, I got a message from Ryan saying that a good friend of his wondered if someone would loan him a mower as his had just broken.

I agreed to drop it off for him when I got done with Meri's yard because they live less than a block away.  No big!

Well, it was a big.  I got there and the friend's dad was already there trimming and mowing.  I turned off the mower and chitchatted with him for a bit before attempting to start my mower again to take it home.

The dad said that fire, then smoke was coming out from the front of the engine.

sigh.

It's cooling off on their yard for the moment until I come over later this afternoon to try and start it.

I might be buying that brand new one sooner than spring.

Trust me to kill off Dad's mower!

The mower is out to get me

 Ok, let me see if I can explain this.

I was mowing under Meri's tree and it has a swing.  I reached up to grab it as I drove under it mowing. Perhaps a little too fast.

All of the sudden, I was laying on my back on the ground with my feet on the steering wheel!  Apparently the swing caught the front of the mower and flipped it straight up.  Since my butt had left the seat, the mower had turned off automatically. whew!  But still, there I was.

Bad diagram above and below.

A couple cars passed but I was still under the tree and they probably didn't notice me. What to do?!

Well, I gave the steering wheel a push with my feet and it fell with a WHOMP.

Looking back now, I'm guessing the mower would have stayed straight up and down and I could have gotten up and asked someone for help to lower it back down.

hindsight.  It CAN be helpful but not in the moment.

Now the left front tire is bent out of place and I'm not sure it will mow straight or turn corners correctly.

Meri and her boyfriend helped me attempt to bend it back into place last night but I kind of think we had the wrench in the wrong spot.  As soon as the rain lets up a little, I'll head back over and try it again.

Thanks to some neighbors at her place and mine, we were able to get the yards mowed last weekend.  However the clover is in season and the yards look yuck already.  It was bad enough when the dandelions made their presentation, but now this. uggh.

Wish me luck!

Siezing Spring

 Between Jen and myself, we got Aggie's playhouse done!  Whew!  It is so cute!  And now has a sand floor because Aggs keeps bringing sand over from the sandbox.  There is a black tarp under that.

Jen wants to make a little raised garden too. :)  So sweet.  Aggie loves it.

End of the year concerts!!  Leon was very dedicated with his clarinet this year.  I don't know if he'll do band next year but we'll find out.

Meri and I hit up our local theater and saw Pride and Prejudice's 20 year anniversary showing a week or so ago on the big screen and then I saw this reel on FB.  SO TRUE!!!  

This past Sunday, Leon, Meri and I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail at it's 50th anniversary at the theater too.

STILL hilarious after all these years!  And the popcorn was still fantastic.

I asked Leon if he recognized any lines from the movie that Grandpa Robb used to say and he replied pretty quickly with, "Yes, the 'it's just a flesh wound' line!" 

Oh YEAH that was one! lol!

And the trees and birds and bees are blooming, winging and buzzing all around.

It's got me in the mood to work outdoors a lot, so I've done a load of trimming, mowing, picking up stuff, etc outdoors.  I've got myself a doozy of a headcold right now but working outdoors keeps the agony of it to a minimum for the moment.  Or maybe it's the pseudofed/Aleve cocktails I'm on.  Don't know but I'll take it.

Last weekend, Maddy and Matthew were here and helped us move the ton or two of cement chunks out from under and around the eagles nest play thing we have out front.  Jen's family is coming in a few weeks to move that playland into the backyard for Aggie.  

I know it doesn't look like much from up in my office.  and probably not up close, but it's a commitment!  It'll have cement like planters on it and doll up that thistle loaded hill! *which I dug out earlier that day*

So the chunks were moved and when the last batch came around the garage, Matthew dumped it and we all gasped, WE NEED ICE CREAM!  So the last batch sits because then the cold symptoms hit me like a ton of cement chunks a couple days later.

uggh.

ON to sieze the day!  or another box of kleenex.  

What In The World Have I Been Up To?

 The weekend started off swell!  Frank tried to be Evel Knievel and walk on the upstairs railing.  I have NO idea how often he's tried this that I haven't noticed.  Leon was on the couch behind me and saw him.

Silly cat.

Maddy and Matthew stayed over on Friday night and we went on a self designed 2K walk instead of the usual 5K that we go on for Scandinavian Days.  We wanted to go at our own pace and bring the dogs.  It was going to be a 5K of our own choosing, but ended up around the 2.  We walked past Meri's house and she ran out with some water for each of us. :) Just like a real triathlon or something!

Then we all met up for the parade and coffees.

And our favorite countryside market float gave out watermelon slices! mmmmm

Meri and Ryan

Aggie even enjoyed the festivities and got to meet Robb and my former bosses across the street!

Yep - she's one of our clan!!  She's got the McVal look.

We moseyed down the town and visited a craft fair, had lunch by the pool and then explored the park activities as we had seen a sign for Silly Sally!  

We saw a woman in a tent doing face paints and the girls got ALL nostalgic, "It's HER!!" but the line to get up for painting was super long.  So the girls decided to have their picture taken with her discretely...  without bothering her while she concentrated on a little butterfly for a little girl.

See them in the background? lol!

THEN went around the corner and saw the ACTUAL Sally!!!  The line was much shorter and we got to visit with old neighbors while we waited.

The girls got their pics with her again and also got balloon animals!!

Silly Sally was the entertainment for both Maddy's 3rd birthday party 

AND Meri's 3rd birthday party a few years later!  

Sally was pleased that some satisfied former clients came to see her.

After all the festivities, I spent the afternoon and evening burning branches and old bits of our patio room.  Will have to do more of that in the upcoming weeks.  Leon and Ryan joined me and we made s'mores.  I also dug into the woods and cut down lots more branches and weeds so that Leon could explore the woods easier.

Every time I feel like I should get some things done outside, I look for a new project instead of the stuff I should ACTUALLY work on.  Is that a bad thing?

The poor plants I have laid out for planting need to get IN the ground!!!  Maybe today.

Maybe not.

Busy Little Bee

I've been sewing in a majority of my free time.  I will get done with these dresses!!

One chore I'll be skipping, in May anyhow, is mowing.  The kids talked me into it to save the bees.

And so that the neighbors wont take pity on me thinking that the poor Widow McVal is too feeble to mow these days and do it for me, I'm having someone on Etsy make me a yard sign similar to this...

BUT with a twist.

It will have the bee pic with the wirds,

"I am not lazy. My kids have talked me into No Mow May"

It'll get here next week amd I can use it every May! :}

And for your entertainment...

Frank in a box.

 Enjoy your Thursday!

Demolish Du Jour and PARTIES!

 I may have mentioned this, don't recall.  Matthew accepted a job 2 hours away, and they've bought a house just over an hour away.  It's going to be so great for them!  They move this month.  The house is adorable and perfect for their needs.  They need to build another fence but they got experience at their house in Wisconsin so they know what they're doing.

ALSO...

A bridesmaid came by for her fitting and with just one adjustment besides the hem, hers is done. WHEW!  One almost down! 5 more dresses to go...

ALSO...

We had discovered that our patio room was pulling the deck away from the house so my brother came over a couple times and did some work on it but couldn't continue until the patio room was down.  It needed to come down!  So Matthew invited a couple high school friends, I invited my twin nieces and their handy husbands and my brother offered to help out, besides Ryan and the rest of us.  

On Saturday, I grilled out some lunch for everyone when they arrived and we got to it.  Within a few hours, that room was down.  There are piles of junk wood waiting to be burned, a stack of windows waiting for me to build a mini greenhouse out of,  piles of other remnants waiting to be taken to the dump and lots to sweep up.  

It looks more like it did when we bought the house 24 years ago. :)  And I got to hold some grand nephews and a grand niece.

We all got chances to swing sledgehammers and had a lot of fun mixed with hard work!  It was the perfect crew and I am so thankful for them all!  This wouldn't have happened nearly as quickly on my own.  and now the cleanup!

There are already plans for patio swings, hammocks and chickens!  The chickens will have to wait until next year.

ALSO THIS WEEKEND...

I have two nieces that just graduated.  One from high school and one from medical school and both of their parties were yesterday afternoon.  I had already rsvped for the medical school grad party before I knew about the high school one, so that's the one I went to.  It was in a Chicago suburb.  

Congratulations to both of my nieces!  Grace and Christi!

My brother, who was here for the tear down party, went with me on the 5 hour drive.  We made it a day trip and got to my sister's house by 1ish.  

Here we are with the new doctor!  My brother, me, Dr Christi, a sister and another sister (the mother of the grad).  We were only missing 4 sisters to have it all complete.

It was a great time!  But then I made my 30 minute rounds of hugging everyone, (Robb used to factor that into our schedule) and then Mark and I hit the road for Iowa again.  We got home around 10ish pm.  Whew!  It was a whirlwind trip.

So this morning before Mark left, he cut up more pieces of the junk pile so it would fit in my van for the dump, then he finished his trip home of another 3 hours on the road.

My knee is bothering me again and I need a nap...

and if I'm lucky, another weekend.

Diving in and gasping back to the surface

I found that the button holer in my sewing stuff is a bust.  I've ordered a new one and the shirt will wait until I have a button holer that is actually MADE for my machine.  Not sure where the other one came from but it's not creating button holes...  

Just messes.

Here's what I have so far 

and what buttons I've pulled them out of.

Oh, so I was feeling all powerful this morning after my workout with Meri.

Over my breaks today, so far...  

I've taken all our pop cans up town for the 4th of July fireworks donation bin, 

taken some food from the church food pantry box to the school's food pantry, 

dropped some Christmas lights and a "Michonne" sword at Meri's, 

(It's hers.  It might as well be there... ;) )

picked up lunches from the school for Leon, 

swapped our empty propane tank with a fresh one at the co-op,  

wrapped a present in the car, 

watered the outdoor plants, 

weeded and cut out some volunteer trees in the front yard landscaping,

worked with Leon on pulling apart two very tight 5 gallon buckets,

filled both with water for watering plants for tomorrow,

pulled a few weeds in the garden,

showed Leon how to tumble the compost bin a few turns so he can do it every day now,

and baked a chocolate cake.

I was thinking about mowing the yards over lunch but instead I think I'll go see Ada.

Two nights ago, I slept for roughly 3 hours, so yesterday I felt like hell.

Now that the Advil has kicked in today, I feel like I could do anything!

But right now, I'll sit down for a bit before diving into another project...

A Rocky Start

My weigh in for the week...

I'm a couple pounds lighter than I was at Maddy's wedding!!!  WOOHOO!

For your information, giving blood burns 450 calories, so you can add that back onto your calorie count for the day.

Makes me wish I could give EVERY day!! :)

Plus I'd get all the Monty Python episodes watched if I did...

Today, I found a TON (and I mean that literally) of landscaping concrete on the local freecycle FB site.  I didn't know it was going to be so heavy and so much or I wouldn't have scheduled to get it on a day when I'd just given blood...

So I got some of it loaded in my car and I felt like passing out.  So I called Meri.

She and Shub came over and loaded up her car too. WHEW!  

The previous owner of the stones was concerned about me and I got some water from her.  She's taking out ALL the complicated landscaping to have a bigger yard for her toddler.  Good for her!  and Good for me!

God answered my prayers for an economical way to put steps into the dog poop hill!

My haul so far.  Meri hasn't brought hers over yet.

Laid out nicely so I can sort them by size and decide what to do with each.

I've got plans... oh YES I have plans...

Some of these pieces will be a step all by themselves!  Yay!

I'm going to have to go back at least two more times to get them all back here...

I think a couple hours in the hot sun, digging, lugging stones almost too big to carry is another 12000 calories burned.  Don't you?  I am going to eat SOOOO much tonight!!!!

Just kidding...  I'd barf.

And I came across this today and it made me laugh.

I think I know who I'm going to pass my weight to as I lose... :)

Is it the weekend yet?

A DOOZY of a weekend

Has anyone ever seen Tucker & Dale vs Evil?

Hilarious...  If you can get past a little language...

Anyway, I have had a DOOZY of a weekend.

There I was just doing chores around the house...

LOL!  

Actually on Friday night, Meri and Shub invited us over for a bonfire and s'mores.  DIET be Danged!

I started again on Saturday...

Ryan and Jen came along.

Leon's brother Finn, came for the weekend and ran around her yard with him, rolling around in the fresh mown grass.

AND the kid chair that I brought for them, either was too small for Leon or kept flipping Finn over onto his back while he ate his s'more.

Eh - finish it down there before you get up!

It was a really nice time!  AND I discovered a new kind of s'more using Reese's peanut butter cups instead of chocolate! YUM!...  

 I was in town on Saturday and for the 2nd day in a row, my cell phone started heating up.  I mean REALLY heating up...

And everything was super sluggish.

So I went into US Cellular to see what they can do about it.

Well... let me tell you, they can sell you a NEW phone!

So yeah, I got a new phone, a new phone plan and with that, I'm actually paying less each month than I was!  So there.

Unfortunately, because I had been complaining about how long it takes to charge up my phone and I only have ONE fast charging cable, Robb ordered me five more cables for my old phone.

Ummm This one takes the same kind as yours now...

BUT everyone else in the house uses the old style so he didn't cancel the order.

I'm getting used to this phone now.

It's definitely an adjustment period.

So I spent the rest of the days, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, well, outside of church and eating and sleeping and deep cleaning the living room during a thunderstorm, out in the yard.

And look what I found!!!!

My potatoes in the potato bags are growing!!!!

It took forever, but suddenly THERE they are!

I added some potting soil on top of them and look forward to letting them fill up with new potatoes!

I also added some pretty purple wool fabric to the two other growing areas in our yard and planted the bush beans and cucumbers.

I'm also laying piles of yard clippings on top of it to help hold it down.

and make it look a wee bit "not insane"...

After much deliberation and thought, I finally found the perfect spot to plant the grape vine!  In the corner of the back yard where the mower can't get into!  This way, I can hang a wire between in the chain link fence a foot or so above it and move it higher as it grows.

It's growing gangbusters already after just two days!
You can't see it from here...

The other grape vine had all but died.  And I mentioned it to Robb.

He said, "Remember that movie, A Walk in the Cloud, with Keanu Reeves?  *total chick flick* Their vineyard had burned down and all they had was a tiny smoldering stump left.  They were going to regrow all of their vineyard back again from just that stump.  It'll grow back."

AND HE WAS RIGHT!

I checked on the "dead" vine yesterday and wouldn't you just know it?  There was a green leaf on it!!!!  So I planted it yesterday in the opposite corner of the yard.  Will do some landscaping around it this week, I hope.

Yesterday, I took the two 100 foot extension cords and trimmed all around Meri's house and fence and her new garden area. Then brought it home and did the north fence of our house on both sides.

OH, I mowed the front yard early in the morning yesterday, thinking it would be super rainy all day.  It wasn't...  But while mowing, I was super careful next to these little water mains or little metal stumps on one side of our yard.  But suddenly the blade of my rider, dropped over one of them and sheared it off!  BANG!  dirt and grass everywhere.  

It looks like a crime scene...

I'll call City Hall today and find out what the damage is.  Nothing exploded or smelled like gas, so who knows what the purpose of those little beasts are!?!  I'm sure they'll know.  Probably $100 worth of purpose... Knowing my luck.

Update: called city hall.  It'll be $20 and they'll lower them closer to the ground! WOOHOO!

Oh, on Sunday, when in the back yard, Leon found a toad.  Mr Toady as he's called now.

He is part of the family now.  

Also as he was carrying Mr Toady out of the yard, I found these little hunnies in an indentation of the hill.  Aren't they adorable!?  We didn't touch them as we didn't want the Mommy bunny to abandon them.  

But the next day, when I was working out there again, I found that the night's rain had washed and drowned out four of them.  Two more were huddled together outside their burrow.  

So sad!!

OH!  Have you ever heard of being Quarant-wined?  In Central Iowa on FB, there is a group that if you find your town's post, you comment with your address and someone in the group may or may not drop off a basket of wine and goodies on your porch!!  On Sunday morning, look what Robb found on our Go Away mat!!  

SOOO many goodies in there!  And the wine glass has suckers in it too!

Because my last cork screw fell apart when I used it last, I wasn't sure when I'd be able to enjoy it, but Robb told me that he has a corkscrew on his pocket knife!  COOL!

I may enjoy a glass on the deck this evening, if it's not raining.

Yesterday, I took my MIL out to the cemetery to visit her husband's grave.

Since no service at the cemetery this year, we're celebrating Memorial Day remembering.

Names and dates removed.  Just 'cause.

She put some flowers out and we hung out for just a little bit.

And Leon requested Butterscotch-Cinnamon pie, so with Robb's suggestion of Butterscotch pudding mix and butterscotch chips and ground cinnamon, we created it.

Apparently in a game, Undertale that he plays, you eat this kind of pie to build up your strength or HP as he calls it.

He loved it!

Next year, I really want to go spend Memorial Day at my parent's cemetery.

Yesterday was the 1st anniversary of Dad's death.

It was pretty tough and I think that's why I try to keep so busy with everything.

It helps a lot to keep my mind busy.

So last night was pretty bad when I finally sat down to relax.

Well, THAT won't happen again!

Buffering

Whew.  I packed a lot into the weekend...

When don't I? 

I was getting sick of just pony tails AND having my hair make the back of my neck sweat.

So french braid it was for the day. 

On Saturday, I purchased the materials to finish the deck.  Did I rebuild the deck? no.

But the materials are sitting in the back of Meri's old pick up until my BIL comes tomorrow to haul the truck away.

I guess I better move them again today...

Also on Saturday, I got a batch of yogurt going.

Also on Saturday, I pulled out my weed trimmer and the two 100 foot extension cords I gave Robb for our anniversary... *aren't I romantical??* and was able to reach clear to the back fence with them.  I went down one side of the fence on the south side of the yard and then back up the other side of same fence.

Aside from the really tall grass that wove itself into the fence, it looks really nice.

Maybe I'll get to the other fence by next weekend. 

Maybe not.

I also found an older electric trimmer in my garage!  I must have bought it a previous year and got the plastic wire all messed up.  I'll see if I can fix that and let Meri use it on her yard...

Since I was on a roll, I also trimmed up a bunch of weeds back in the woods until the little plastic wire on the trimmer snapped off due to a tree trunk I accidentally smacked with it.  I'd fixed it so many times, that I gave up and went and exchanged it for the electric chain saw.  

Chopped down many little trees that were growing through the fence, keeping us from being able to open the gate.  Well the gate is now open but being blocked by a felled tree that is still attached to the trunk...  The chain fell off the chain saw because of my stupidity getting too close to the dirt and angling things.

And the tree wouldn't break off...  darn.

So I figured that was God telling me to go in the house and relax the rest of the day.

I put everything away and went in.  Who was I to argue with God?

Leon got me signed up for Roblox and I stumbled around in the app for a while wondering what the heck I was doing.  Apparently your character has to die in order to gain materials for Leon's character...  ummmm... this is a sucky game.

Then with some time left until supper, I harvested a bunch of rhubarb and made rhubarb chutney, a savory, sweet, oniony sauce.  Oh yummmmm  It's even great in yogurt!

But I put it on my pulled pork sandwich that night and wow.  It was good!

I KIND of followed a recipe and here is my rendition.

RHUBARB CHUTNEY

Pulled out the food processor and chopped up half a left over onion from the fridge.  It was just a normal yellow onion.

Cleaned and hand chopped up the rhubarb into little chunks to fill 4 cups.

The rest went into the freezer in 2 cup baggies.

THEN in a sauce pan...

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 onion minced as above

1 dash salt

4 cups chopped rhubarb

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 cup dried cranberries like craisins

1 or 2 cinnamon sticks

directions:

Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium head.  Cook onion until softened.  5-6 minutes.

add salt.

Stir the rest of the ingredients in and cook, stirring occasionally until rhubarb softens and begins to break down.  6-8 minutes.

Discard cinnamon stick before serving.

Store in the fridge until someone eats it all.  It does freeze well too.

I also made homemade pesto with the basil from my herb garden.  It looks like the basil had a bad hair cut...  Eh - it's 2020...  EVERYONE has a bad hair cut right now!  

There has GOT to be a quicker way to trim off the basil leaves...

I'll google it...

HOMEMADE PESTO

2 packed cups of basil leaves - previously washed and patted dry

1/4 cup olive oil

1/2 cup walnuts as I don't have pine nuts

salt

Put in the food processor and pulverize it.

I lined an ice cube tray with plastic wrap and put little dollops of the pesto into each little cube.  Then covered with more plastic wrap and froze it.  

When you're ready to use it, thaw and add parmesan.  I guess there is no reason not to add the parmesan ahead of time.  I'll do that next time I make it.

Robb and I got to DUO with Maddy for a while on Saturday as well!  I cannot WAIT for this Covid stuff to go away so we can see them again and meet their two crazy dogs!

I miss them so much.

After supper, I binged watched several episodes of Lark Rise to Candleford on Hulu.

I love it!

It's basically Little House on the Prairie in England.

And I love the fact that all my favorite BBC actors are in it!  The mom of Rose on Dr. Who, Dawn French from Vicar of Dibley, the guy that looks just like Hugo from Vicar of Dibley also, but I found out is actually not.  I've seen Laura in something else, but couldn't find it on IMDB, Yeah, her name on the show is actually Laura...  and her Pa and Queenie has been in a ton of stuff I've watched too. I think Death in Paradise for the dad... 

Mrs. Cropley from Vicar of Dibley is in it too!  

I know... I just keep name dropping from shows you've never watched and you have no idea who these people are, but oh well... 

I suckered Robb into watching the first episode with me last night.  It'll be our together show now until he gets sick of it.  I don't think he will...  And I don't mind rewatching the first few episodes.  If he does quit, I'll continue on with it.  There are 4 seasons, so we'll be set for a while.

Sunday, after church, I went to see Ada in a light sprinkling of rain.  Can't wait until the nursing home opens up, but I guess for now, we're just happy that she's going to finally get a hair cut next week!  after waiting three months...

I went home and it was chill outside, so I called Meri and asked her if she'd like a smallish pan of tortellini with pesto that I was planning on making for supper.  Um yes.

So I made a big pan for us and a smaller one for her and Shub.

CHICKEN TORTELLINI with PESTO

Here's the recipe that I made into my own, since it was loosely followed...

3 packages of tomato, basil tortellini from Aldi - the dried kind.

A few handfuls of the pulled pork leftover from the previous dinner - About 2-3 cups worth

you can use chicken or no meat if you want.

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 green pepper, seeded and chopped

1/2 onion (minced in food processor again) (that way the onion doesn't make your eyes hurt!)

6 ounce jar of tomato pesto from Aldi and 4 ice cube tray lumps of homemade green pesto

3-4 cups chicken broth.  I used homemade bone broth from October.

1/2 cup milk

1/2 jar of leftover Aldi Alfredo sauce

a dollop or two of sour cream

2 cups shredded cheese to top

salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Put butter in medium size skillet and medium heat.

Add onions and green pepper and cook until soft.  About 4 minutes.

In a large mixing bowl, add the onion mixture, pesto, broth, milk, alfredo sauce, sour cream and salt and pepper.  

Whisk well.

Put tortellini pieces into a large greased baking dish. 

Pour mixture over the tortellini and stir around.

Cover pan with foil.

Bake with foil on for 20 minutes, then with foil off, stir the tortellini around to make sure all is covered with sauce, top with cheese, then bake for another 20 minutes until the cheese is bubbly.

Enjoy!

Meri and Shub came over to get the pan I made for them and I was draining the vanilla yogurt that I'd also made on Saturday.  Shub had a taste and really liked it!  So I sent back a container of it just for him.  He also wanted me to give the recipe for it to Meri so she could make some too.  So I sent her the link also.  He also tried the chutney with it and liked that too.  

I guess he just likes food!

And Meri is going to be busy making all these things for him.

This morning, since the grass was nice and wet from the rains we've been getting, I logged over 1700 steps this morning spreading Scotts lawn weed and feed stuff all over the yard.  

Dandelions and the clover are TOAST, I tell you!

and possibly my tennis shoes.  They were drenched and so were my socks.

Oh well, need to have a nice looking lawn!

And it's not supposed to rain for the next few days, so the timing is good.

At least I HOPE the weather man hasn't lied again, like he did on Saturday!

I think the week days are made for me to rest up for the next weekend.

So I'm buffering here and gearing up for the next two days to work my little heart out!

Have a wonderful week!

and Frank the cat

YAAAAAYYYYY!!!! It's FRIDAY!!!!!

FINALLY!

I mowed at Meri's yesterday over lunch and didn't get to the planting of my grape plants yet.  Good thing too, because it's supposed to dip below freezing tonight.

Shoot.  

The instructions on the grapes say to wait 4-5 weeks after the last frost. ummm...  They are not going to survive until then.  So I'll check the forecast for this weekend and do it then if I can.

The fire pit is still on the list.

I did create Sonya's webpage last night and it while it looks great on a big computer screen, not so much on a small cell phone.

Will get some more editing done on that soon!

And this was Frank this morning.

Ignore the clutter...

I video taped him because I thought he was going to do something funky with the wind chime right behind him, but he was just being boring instead.  oh well.

Have a wonderful weekend!