Some days you wake up, full of energy and plans, and the plans actually come to fruition. Yesterday was such a day.
On Wednesday evening as ED was leaving she happened to notice some tree seedlings growing in a part of the gutter. I had been up on a ladder doing the staining, but asthis was 'around the corner' from the front entrance, I never noticed ! So while Hubby cleaned all the gutters, both front and back, I edged the front lawn, ending up with a couple of blisters ! Two front flower beds were edged as well. I now very clearly have a demarcation line by the front sidewalk, separating our yard from the hillbillies' next door. Even when we rented our first two homes, we kept them pristine. We may not have owned them, but they were our 'homes'.
After that we cleared out almost all the needles from the Colorado Blue Spruce in front, filling up the city comopost bin. YS and I had filled 2 compost bins last year and there is only a little bit left to do next week. The bin is full ! Then onto the back yard trimming more off the MayDay tree and another Spruce. We had to haul the trimmed branches out back and will load them into the bin after pick up on Tuesday. I wanted to get all this done as it is supposed to rain today. Lighter pine needles aare much easier to shovel ! [ So where is the rain ?]
When Hubby renovaated the bathroom before my operation, he put in a new bathtub and tub surround. There were a few spotss where the paint had been chipped off. We had no paianat left over for touch ups and I really didn't want to repaint the room. Wednesday I used some craft paint, mixed splotches till I had the colours as close as possible and touched them up. Not perfect, but not glaringly white !
Hubby got a break from work yesterday as he went with ED[ who has 2 PD days to work on a Master's paper] to pick up a small table and chairs which have to be white for Diner Blanche.
As a retired employee from a major Hardware chain, he gets an employee discount for ourselves and family. When they opened the package it didn't match the picture or advertisement ! Off she went again to f ind pur white and was successful. [ I kept edging !! ]
We had home grown tomatoes, cukes and green onions with our chicken supper. More beans are ready for supper tonight. We have YGS overnight as our two sons are in a baseball tournament, and the little one loves beans. Don't know what else we'll have. We may actually go and do some groceryshopping today.
Today I"ll hunt for my semi gloss white paint to do othe baseboards in the bathroom and continue knitting the shawl. I sure do love the pattern, easy but very attractive. I have started counting the number of rows I get done, just to spur me on !
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