Tuesday News...

This just in...with all the enthusiasm from Sunday writing down and taking pics of all the things we did, hubby got all motivated to take down a dead tree that he started to remove oh about a YEAR ago. :)

He provided me with these photos to show what he worked on today! :)  It looks so much nicer in the back yard now that it is down!  Thanks hub!

GRIMM is moved to tonight so I am going to watch it!  Later all!

If you ever....(part 3)

Smeared Vaseline n the pole to the bird feeders to keep the squirrels away

Did 2 loads of laundry

Went shopping (after the movies) and hubby replaced the doggy door, Before pic..

Got the doggy door at Hope Depot and got some more pots/soil/veges at Walmart

With a nice new one with no gaps at the sides (that bugs could get in)

The day wasn't all work..We saw Oblivion...

Swept the back porch

Did the dishes..before

After (did them twice)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that is what I did today. Tonight is TV night, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Red Widow...and we deserve to relax after all we did today.  See how you can look back and realize how much you did by writing it down and taking pics? :)

If you ever...(part 2)

Removed old faded flowers from pots on front porch..

 Then..

Add Replaced with flowers from the animal shelter garage sale

So much nicer!

Hubby cleaned up the back driveway (guess it is a boat area but we have no boat)!

Before

After

He fixed an old quilt rack so that it won't fall apart when we put a blanket on it

Removed some old faded, and BIRD PICKED (yes they even take the fake flowers) bucket flowers and..

Made 3 lovely new arrangements with the garage sale flowers...

So much nicer!  Back in their holder...

Replaced with flower had and got from animal shelter garage sales

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If you ever...part 1

...wonder where the day went or think that you never accomplish much of anything, try writing down what you do from the moment you get up until you turn in at night. Better yet, take pictures too!  This will be at least two blogs as many pics!

For example...today.. I woke up and...

Got my exercise in..

Worked my arms with weights...

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Then...walked all the dogs with hubby..these are the Before..see no tongues :)

After...

After...

Saturday relaxing..

I thought I was working all weekend but I was lucky and got caught up by the afternoon!  Yah! 

So I decided to take one of our furkids for a walk. Just as I got to the furthest point away, I heard some thunder and noticed that the clouds had gotten dark overhead.  I figured we would get wet for sure but it actually held off until I got around the bend from home and then it didn't rain too much at all until after we had gotten home.  Who says God doesn't answer little prayers? :)

I did stop up the street because I heard a wood pecker.  It was at the top of a telephone pole pecking away.  It was funny to hear.  I looked up and said "Hey Woody"!  It stopped pecking but didn't fly away. That made me smile but then we hurried the rest of the way home as it was starting to sprinkle then.

It didn't rain much longer but we are due to get some storms tonight after midnight. Figures! 

The Red Poppy festival was today and while I toyed with the idea of going to see Restless Heart this evening, we decided to pass as there was a chance of rain and parking would have been horrible.  So instead we went out to eat at Chili's.  It was nice as it has been a long time since we've eaten there. There were a lot of teens there eating out before their Prom.  It was cute seeing them all dressed up, though I had to chuckle at some of the girls who kept pulling their dresses up at the top (that's the problem with strapless dresses). 

Back home we sat at on the back balcony for a little bit. It was cloudy so I can't say that we were watching the sun set, but it was nice.  It is still in the low 70's out. 

I see Justin Timberlake is hosting SNL tonight (re-run) so maybe I'll be able to watch it as I didn't stay awake the first time it was on.

Last Friday in April

Here's to the last Friday in April..

Here's to...

The last of the April Showers.. right?
The last cold night down in the 30's or 40's, right?
The last dark night by 8:05PM ...until June...right?
The last month I'll need the quilt on the bed, right?
The last full month before the re-runs start....right?
The last month before the bugs really come out...right?
The last month I'll have to wear a heavy sweater...right?
That's the last thing I can come up with..night!

Favorite day?

Usually this is my favorite day but it was a rough work day!  Anyway during my lunch time I decided to do some things I just haven't had the time to do.

Make appointment with a dermatologist  - Check
Make appointment with dog groomer for 3 of the furkids - Check
Make a call to my mom's house cleaner to see about doing our house - Check..
Well that did not go as I had hoped.  She has no more openings.  She offered to give my number to her sister-in-law who may have an opening.  NO thanks!  I guess I will just clean the house myself and plan to give it a good deep cleaning at least once a year! ;-)

This weekend is suppose to be in the 70's during the  day and lows in the 60's ..Could warm weather finally be here?  Don't tease me Mother Nature! :)

Brr...again!

This morning I woke up to cold temps once again. It was in the low 40's.  I have to keep looking at the calendar to realize that next week it will actually be May.  I promise to not complain about the heat this summer and I think my hubby actually for once even says he won't complain either.  I don't know about that though because he hates the hot weather.

I hope the tomato plants survive until the weekend as I haven't been able to plant them yet.  They looked wilty tonight when I watered them.  I won't be working this weekend so I will have time to get them planted once and for all. Worked late again tonight but its month end again so it is expected.

Not much to write about but I wanted to at least say something. :-)  
Another 'hump day' over.
 

Back to it!

Well back to the old routine today.  I actually don't mind as this weekend really felt like helter skelter. It was nice to see my family that was from out of town, but I didn't get enough time with them. Long story short, too many things scheduled in too little time but oh well. No surprise.  I hope they had a good time. It was great meeting my niece's husband. He seems very nice and they both look very happy together. They are buying their first house too which is exciting!


I got a nice walk in after dinner with hubby. We took Tika with us this time and she wasn't used to quite the long walk we take, so she kept stopping several times to sniff the ground (but I think it was just to catch her breath).

It is suppose to be nice this evening but tomorrow night another low of 41. Now I need to look forward to May I guess when it surely will be warm for good until fall! :)

Family Time

It is always nice when family is together, especially when it is years between when we get t see them. Got to meet my niece's husband for the first time too.  It was great to see them all even though the time was short. They are off to see some musician tonight and are leaving tomorrow.  Here are some pics of our get together at my folks for my brother's 60th birthday cake presentation.  We all sing in such great harmony.  My youngest is also headed back to college for the last few weeks of school.  Hard to believe she will be graduating next month!

My B-I-L Robert

My youngest :)

Nephew Tyler

My brother Bob who turned 60 and his lovely wife Nina

My brother opening birthday cards (my mom to his left)

Left is my niece and her hubby Ben, My dad, and my B-I-L and sister

Real Quick..

Didn't post yesterday because it was a very busy day!
Family visiting too!~ 

Will write some more later on tonight.

Finally Friday

Yes, it is finally here and work day done!

So excited! My youngest is coming home tomorrow for the weekend! Woo hoo!  And very excited that my brother and his wife will be here from NY!  And my niece and her new husband whom I've never met will also be coming. My brother will be turning 60 this weekend. I KNOW!  That is so hard to believe. It sounds so OLD!!!...But I'm not that terribly far behind him either!

It is suppose to be a little warmer tomorrow.  These temperatures have been crazy!  It got down to 40 last night and tonight's low is 39. I just hope it doesn't get down below freezing after all the planting I've done! I still have to get the rest of the veges planted too.

I was hoping to catch GRIMM tonight for once, but they are still covering the Boston story.  I am elated that they caught this last suspect but the speculations, reports, etc., are a bit much. It is nearly 10 PM and they are still going on about it.  I just think the drama gets drawn out sometimes.  It was really nice though seeing that town cheering when it was all finally and they could breath a little easier.

Well off the computer for the night!

More Pictures

I was going to take some pictures of the vegetables I planted. But what was I going to do? PRETEND that I grew them from seed myself?  Who is going to be impressed that I took a 8 inch already started pepper plant out of its container and plunked it in a bucket! Wow! :))

So instead I noticed how beautiful the clouds were when I was on my way to help hubby get his treasures that he got from the annual animal shelter garage sale that we volunteer for. So instead when I got back I grabbed the camera to get some snapshots in of these beauties.  Normally my favorite sky is a bright blue, cloudless sky but this was very pretty I must say!

All in all an okay day except that I got mad that once again my hubby mixed some of my clothes with his in the wash. And once again he put some bras in the dryer that now will be tight so that I will be fidgeting with them constantly. I asked him or rather told him that I need him to stop doing that!  I don't want to sound 'like my mother' but there is a reason I want to do my own laundry. There are so many things that fit just right and I cannot risk them going in the dryer. And let's face it, although boobs may sag with age, they don't shrink with your clothes!

Okay here's the pics:

This first one I actually ran up to the balcony two nights ago because the sun was absolutely orange!  I stood on the bench (pretty risky as an afterthought) to try to get the sun. Almost lost my balance so won't be doing that stupid trick again!

This was facing the sun which is why it is more white I guess!

Hump Day~

Got my pap results yesterday via the mail. All good! :)  Not that I expected it to be anything else but it had been 3 years so I was keeping my fingers crossed. Didn't call the dermotologist yet as I keep forgetting until evening. I will do it though soon.

I got my husband to get me up early today when he saw the sun starting to rise so that I could plant some of the veges he got me.  Okay yes I cheated. I didn't start these from seeds. But I've been busy! I planted green, red and yellow peppers (he went a bit overboard on the pepper plants). Also planted canteloupe, honey dew and have two tomato plants. Did not get to the tomato plants yet. There were 3 wasp nests that had been started already and I wanted hubby to get rid of them before they got so big that I would be afraid to go near them as I took care of my balcony garden.  So those are taken care of, until new ones are made!

I have some zuchini seeds that I got last year so I want to plant some of these and see if they grow.  Those seeds germinate pretty quickly.  It really looked like rain this evening and thought it might start when we went for our after dinner walk. But it didn't. Hub said it is suppose to rain tomorrow, which is a good thing because I think our lawn can use some rain by now (not to mention our whole area is still dry).

Well turning in. I'm tired!

Balcony pics..

I'm hopping on here real quickly to post those photos of the back balcony.  It cleaned up very nicely and I got the flowers planted.  Didn't blog yesterday because right after work I headed to my sister's house. She and I headed down to Austin to see Chicago (the band).  It was a great concert and I was so hoarse by the end since I sang practically every song right along with them.  Four of the founding members are still in the group and they sounded great!  Okay here's the pics..