Just An Ordinary Summer Week

Just an ordinary laid back week of summer. Lazy days, especially for me ! I set little goals for myself - I had to finish the 'green' round of hexagons on my blocks before I could knit  the rest of the stockings which I finished yesterday. Today I have to finish putting all the names on before I continue with my Cherry Chutney. We have so many cherries and can only freeze so many. I'll try this recipe out and if it is tasty, I can make some up for Christmas gifts.

I am fairly organized because the Olympics are on and I just love the Games, Winter or Summer. I was not too impressed with the opening ceremonies. I found them quite disjointed and the precision was just not there. The Olympic Anthem was sung by a lovely choir of 40 children, but their voices  could not do justice to the hymn which needed the stronger adult voices. Now if they had had a Brazilian Olympic song for the children to sing, it might have been perfect.  Honestly, nothing grabbed me, more should have been done IN the stadium instead of all the fireworks OUT of the stadium.

Hubby has spent a few days in the garage cleaning and organizing. He'[s been quite ruthless which is good. I have nothing in the garage of mine; it's all his junk !! Now he needs to move down into the basement when he finishes the garage. I have very little down there-- it's mostly HIS stuff, so he needs to organize it so we can redo the floor.

The lawn looks the best it has in over 20 years. That's how much rain we have had !! Grass is growing where grass hasn't g town for years !  WE went out to YD's place as she had bought an outdoor pool for $150 and it is terrific. We watched the kids play in it for a while and came home. Their grass has NEVER looked so good. When you live on an acreage you cannot afford to water so the lawn had been suffering.
At night, after watching all the news on the American election, I've gone upstairs to read. I have really enjoyed Lee Childs and just read a terrific book by Jeffrey Archer. If someone wrote a book about an American election such as is going on now, no one would have read it ! I cannot believe the thinking of the radical Republicans.  On Twitter, they will never admit that Trump has ever put a foot wrong ! Facts mean nothing to them. Bizarre, really bizarre.

I must get on with my over stitching of names so I can get on with the cherry chutney.