Last night, I had too little sleep. And today, I watched too much TV. Just a quick check in post before bed to keep up with the Blog 365 challenge.
Hopefully, a proper post happens tomorrow. Probably a post about what I’m watching and reading.
Almost forgot to post tonight!
Not too much to share so I’ll just let you enjoy some photos from my orange tulip obsession.
Look, do you see the mini tulips that sprang up? Little unexpected baby orange tulips!
A look inside a regular opened tulip.
And then, I noticed this double tulip (sure there’s a more official name but I have no idea what it is).
It’s supposed to storm overnight with a wind advisory. I sure hope my orange tulips are still there in the morning.
Today I had mostly an outdoor day. And it shows in the house. So, I’m just sharing outside pictures in this post!
Went to Menards early this morning. Best time to go before it gets busy. Really, if I don’t get there by about 10a.m., I save it for another day. Needed birdseed and a few flowers. Tried to control myself. Was excited to pick up some violas on clearance for $1 though! Fill a giant flower pot of mine for just $5. Sounds good.
At home, I spent time hard raking the garden. No idea if that’s the proper technical term or not. However, it’s a lot more flat now. It was so hilly and uneven after we rototilled it a couple weeks back. Ready for planting now.
Planted my new Bleeding Heart plant (I buy one a year for filling up a garden space in our backyard). And my two additional sweet William, wild blue phlox plants. Love the smell of it. Realized that really I should be planting it closer to the deck. Ah, an idea for a new garden space!
Moved round to the front to fill in the large flower pot plus ponder a few herbs I bought yesterday. Is it me or has the price of garden herb starts increased? Still waiting on my favorite garden store for most of those. Added lemon verbena and mojito mint to the back deck rail. And just set a rosemary and lavender in my big front porch pot. Plus added another lemon verbena to my herb wall in front of the porch. Just starting that project.
After lunch, I took J for another driving lesson. He did pretty good. Just had to remind him once that we weren’t in the UK and maybe to drive on the right side of the road, ha! Then, we tackled a few busier roads complete with waiting for a train. While he did good, I’m not saying I didn’t come home and take some deep sniffs of the lavender and rosemary.
Now, it’s taco time and then, I’m off to Bunco for the night. Just wanted to get a quick post in for the day.
What are you up to on this lovely Tuesday?
Ever have those weeks where you have lots to do but just don’t do any of it? That was me last week. Sometimes you just need to give yourself a break.
Now it’s a new week with an old and new to do list. Time to get it planned by joining in the weekly link up hosted by Sandra over at Diary Of A Stay At Home Mom.
We had some 80 degree days last week, then April Fools! It was suddenly cold again over the weekend. Really, just back to normal but 50’s feel cold after the 80’s. And it did drop down enough overnight that I had to bring in my hibiscus. We did get a bit of much needed rain, so that was nice. Right now it’s currently 48 and sunny. Supposed to warm back up the next two days, then drop again with a chance of rain Thursday and Friday.
I’m in the basement so the ground level window has a privacy film. However, the sun is strongly streaming through it.
I just returned from the grocery store, put away the groceries, ate breakfast, and am working on this post.
Ever read something and just have a light bulb moment?
I get a weekend favorites email from Courtney over at Be More With Less. In one of the links this week was this article about the rule of five for eliminating kitchen clutter. As someone who gets easily overwhelmed with too many choices, this article just spoke to me. And I applied it to my grocery shopping this morning. Really helped me in not overbuying, I’ve been working really hard to get out of that pandemic shopping mindset. My magic number was 3 this week. Three fruit choices, three veggie choices, three snack choices (for the kids and maybe me), etc.
Lamp, two chargers. My husband was charging some type of work light on it yesterday. Need to get rid of the extra charger.
Cat is down here sleeping and I can hear her snoring!
Just finished one called The Accident by Chris Pavone. It didn’t do much for me, way too many points of view in the story telling. And I’ve just started Finders Keepers by Stephen King, the second one in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy.
If I do find a few minutes for tv today, I’ll either watch my one episode of Dr. Who for the week, The Spring Baking Championship, or the first episode of Barry, season 4.
Undecided but 3 choices: leftover spaghetti (might make into a meatball sub), leftover ribs (probably not), or ham/cheese sandwich.
Not my favorite but I have potatoes I need to use up: chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes
Pretty standard fare for us this time.
MONDAY: chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes *J has a lesson at 6:30*
TUESDAY: tacos *I have bunco at 7*
WEDNESDAY: Roast in the crock pot *I work 12-4*
THURSDAY: Teriyaki shrimp and rice (don’t get excited, I’m pouring a jar of teriyaki sauce over some frozen shrimp) *I work 8:15-4:45*
FRIDAY: Leftovers, OUT, or frozen pizza *I work 8:15-4:45*
Everything from last week.
Bunco on Tuesday night, yardwork, some clutter clear out, take some old electronics to a local recycle event on Saturday, and maybe make some clear out the pantry cookie dough and throw it in the freezer
Need to get started on my new diamond painting, still thinking about the garden flowers for on the front porch and the area beside it.
Having fresh air come in the open the windows.
See item #4 on the to do list.
I’ve been a bit obsessed with the orange tulips.
My sister-in-law (still need to call brother and see how things went), the homeless, friends, other family, strangers, that everything is set for J to graduate, our country, the world, peace and kindness to prevail.
Day 107/365
Almost missed posting today. Only going to share a couple of photos as it’s already 9p.m. and close to bedtime.
It’s a new week with new possibilities!
I’ll be back tomorrow for a proper posting on Happy Homemaker Monday.
Day 106/365
Earlier today, I was outside taking a few photos between the rain showers.
When I saw a hawk fly into the neighbor’s tree across the street. I was using my zoom lens trying to see what kind of hawk I noticed as it looked small.
And suddenly, this happened:
Down he swooped, aiming for a rabbit. Who thankfully, avoided it. This is right after the hawk attempted to have him for dinner.
I know hawks need to eat. However, I really didn’t want to watch him have rabbit stew today.
By the way, I’m fairly certain despite the grainy photos that is was a young Cooper’s Hawk.
day 105/365
Today was a work day. Sometimes we teach the kids things. And sometimes the kids (and/or their parents) teach us things.
It was share day today for the letter sound of “v.” Saw lots of vegetables (real and fake) and oh so many velociraptor toy dinosaurs. However, the coolest item of the day was by far the “venomous” scorpion.
They found it in their basement. And not the first one, they said! Yikes. This one was rather small, thank goodness. Here’s a photo of what I’m guessing is an adult one from the Missouri Department of Conservation.
So today I learned we have scorpions in Missouri. I had no idea. Only one kind, a striped bark scorpion. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen one. You can read more about these “lovely” creatures here if you’re interested.
Hopefully, I don’t find any at my house. Do you have scorpions in your area?
Day 104/365
Orange you glad I remembered to post something today?
Day 103/365
So just a short post tonight after all. Probably going to be short posts all this week. Busy days.
Thought this was going to be the 100th post of the year. However, it turns out my count is off. This is the 102nd day of the year so I messed up my count somewhere along the line.
Hooray for posting 102 days (almost) I suppose!
Too tired to write a proper blog post. Worked, came home, went back to a (rather short) CPR class, came home again. Watched an episode of Spring Baking Championship. Surprised by who went home this week, I’d have gone the other way if I were the judges. And now, time for a blog post.
Well, at least this list isn’t rattling through my brain at midnight, right? Do you ever get the million (I didn’t give you the full list) thoughts rattling around in your brain?
Day 99/365