Sigh...Another Rainy Day...

Have you ever really loved the book that you are reading but felt as though you have been reading it forever?

That is the case with me and this puppy. It's loaded with flashbacks and I keeping going back and rereading...I am merely halfway through and finally I have the characters in my head. It's complicated...lol...but good...



I want to get to these...this one? Brothers, abuse, family issues and fighting over an inheritance? Yum!


This one sounds dystopian...the Earth's rotation slows down?
Very excited about this.


This is the way this book is described..." . .Something is wrong in Niceville, where evil lives far longer than men do."

Oh me oh my...


Today I am relaxing with a mani/pedi...it looks as though an all day rain is falling but everything outside looks clean and green...I am ready for my sister other than deciding on what to have for dinner on Friday when I am not sure when they are arriving...no grilling because it's rainy...I need a starter and something prepped and ready...
I have no clue what to serve...
ideas graciously accepted!


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Am I Learning Too Much?

In the past few days I have learned how to do the following...

use baking soda and essential lavender oil to freshen a mattress

use vinegar to kill weeds

make a bird seed wreath

make a triple French braid

make a chicken dish to die for

use baking soda with toothpaste as a natural teeth whitener

make zucchini, squash, spinach and kale chips

make the most moist chocolate cake ever

make someone's Grammy's white cake and icing

All of this from one quick visit!

Whew!

I shall lovingly call this...Pinterest Overload!!!

Oh...I am now yearning for tubs and troughs to plant flowers in, too.



And my front porch will be sporting this look as soon as it stops freezing at night here.
Minus the dog? Hmmm...


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A Visit From My Sister!

My sister Paula and her husband are stopping by for the week end on their way to the Outer Banks...my house is always guest ready but...this little visit tweaked us and jump started some other house and yard projects...here's how that went down..
Hated the guest room lamps...got three new ones...








Hated that another guest room looked too crowded...so...took down the double bed and put in a daybed. Lucy's bed is next to the day bed. It looks like a comfy reading room now!








Amvets called...and since I was reorganizing upstairs rooms I had stuff to giveaway...that led me to go through one closet and resulted in five immense bags of shoes and clothes to give away!!!
While I was doing this, Den was working on the stones and landscaping...which led us to the purchase of new deck chairs for the sun deck...I had really lovely rockers out there that my mom and dad bought me but mushrooms were growing out of them and they fell apart...seriously...mushrooms?
We do live in the mushroom capitol of the world...but this was freaky!
Apparently we should have purchased a third deck chair!




You might wonder what if anything I have learned from any of this?
Apparently even when I think I am ready for anything...I am not!
We are older than we realize...we hurt, ache, and are exhausted!
But ready for guests...
other than groceries, some deck plants, a fern for the front planter, washing all the guest bed linens, actually dusting, planning menus, getting beer and wine, planning a fun activity for Saturday, going out to dinner Saturday night and sending them off on Sunday!
Whew!!!

Brrr...Cold...Freezing?

I am so cold...I think it is because I am wearing shorts and short sleeves...and we had a "hard freeze" last night...there has not been sunny warm deck time...and we have been eating soup!
It feels more like winter now than winter did!
I have no clue what is happening here!
I want this...From Pinterest of course...




But we have this...
seriously?




I just had to drink a cup of hot hot hot coffee because I am so cold! But now I have on long pants and a thermal top!
Have I mentioned that I am cold?
I had to get a winter blanket out again...because...
Patty and Lucy and Denny are cold!
In almost May?
Hey...I want in there...


Reading this...private school, secret society, mystery, and a girl who speaks to Edward R. Murrow? Really good stuff. Thank you, Jennifer Miller.



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A Very Stony Saturday

This is what is going down today!

Digging...digging...and even more digging!

Den thinks he didn't order enough stones but this is a pretty big pile of lovely stones!

We/he is filling in the area under the deck and actually making it bigger. We/he will put cobblestone pavers in it for planters and walking...kind of like stepping stones.

Oh boy...

It is cold here today and last night we had a hard freeze!

I am anxious to plant but I guess I have to wait a bit!

This comes up every year...just like this...I don't even know what they are other than pink heart shaped little flowers!



Have a happy Saturday! Lucy and I are off to supervise!




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