Not much posting going on due to various minor medical issues that are grinding me down, temporarily.
More in due course.....
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
A little sample, or a taste
Here are the visuals from our week:
Mike began the week by trying out his new edger. He got it for his birthday this year. He was very pleased with it's handling and performance.
And I was pleased to find that I'd cooked more rice than I realized, yielding me an extra week's worth of dog food. Our dog food production system is transitioning from using plastic freezer bags as storage containers, to using the plastic GladWare. The GladWare is cheap, amazingly versatile and tough, and best of all - it comes with the volume stamped on the bottom in CUPS, not grams or ounces. So out came my Sharpie marker and voila! Now I can easily tell Mike how much food to dole out if we needed him to manage the canine catering service. (This is less than half of the total amount I cooked this weekend. FYI: they eat at least 2.5 cups a day of homecooked food.)
Folding the vacation tent
We're coming down to the wire here on the vacation. We got off track a few times, but also realized that shifting from jobs where we both basically work hard all day to check off the day's To Do list and then taking a vacation with the same plan wasn't working too well. All work and no play....
We've had a nice balance of work and play (mostly shopping). Mike is getting the front yard re-seeded today. Carol cleaned out a few cabinets and sent some bags to the landfill, and stacked up some cookbooks to donate to a charity book sale. I really don't need the 1983 Southern Living annual cookbook....but I did find some old favorites. My goal is to reduce the cookbook shelf space by half, and it's looking like I'll get there. The dog food reserve is re-established, although it could be bigger.
So it's back to work tomorrow. It's good to be caught up on our sleep, and breaking out of our usual routine was SO nice. I'm also so glad we avoided the hassel of traveling anywhere. We've enjoyed the nice weather for eating meals on our deck.
No point in visiting the mountains yet - no color. So - we postponed that trip for a week. No real excitement - just a laid-back peek at retirement living!
We've had a nice balance of work and play (mostly shopping). Mike is getting the front yard re-seeded today. Carol cleaned out a few cabinets and sent some bags to the landfill, and stacked up some cookbooks to donate to a charity book sale. I really don't need the 1983 Southern Living annual cookbook....but I did find some old favorites. My goal is to reduce the cookbook shelf space by half, and it's looking like I'll get there. The dog food reserve is re-established, although it could be bigger.
So it's back to work tomorrow. It's good to be caught up on our sleep, and breaking out of our usual routine was SO nice. I'm also so glad we avoided the hassel of traveling anywhere. We've enjoyed the nice weather for eating meals on our deck.
No point in visiting the mountains yet - no color. So - we postponed that trip for a week. No real excitement - just a laid-back peek at retirement living!
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
At this rate...
we'll be glad to get back to work so we can rest up!
Welcome home to Phil and Alice!
We took the dogs to the vet this am for the annual check up and ran titers instead of vaccinations. They are both having terrific allergy flare-ups from the grass or something like that, and no way we're going to stimulate their immune systems now. Plus - get real, these dogs are going to show an abundance of immunity to these diseases when the test results come back.
Then we wound up running errands for most of the rest of the day. Good thing the leaves aren't turning - we need every day we've got to complete our To Do lists. I stood on the deck tonight and enjoyed the scent of the gardenias - IN MID-OCTOBER!
Welcome home to Phil and Alice!
We took the dogs to the vet this am for the annual check up and ran titers instead of vaccinations. They are both having terrific allergy flare-ups from the grass or something like that, and no way we're going to stimulate their immune systems now. Plus - get real, these dogs are going to show an abundance of immunity to these diseases when the test results come back.
Then we wound up running errands for most of the rest of the day. Good thing the leaves aren't turning - we need every day we've got to complete our To Do lists. I stood on the deck tonight and enjoyed the scent of the gardenias - IN MID-OCTOBER!
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Did Autumn forget about us?
Why is it still green in mid-October? My favorite maple tree in our yard is a very early turning tree. It is red now, and thank goodness because it's the only red thing around. Some of the trees are starting to turn - the prediction is for peak color next week and the following week. Right after we go back to work! We are postponing leaf-peeping in the mountains for this weekend, and plan to work around the house and in the yard this week.
Friday, October 12, 2007
OMG - a picture from Flickr!
Oh wow. I see....We may wind up with two posts today...but I just realized what I'm doing. Flickr allows me to post to our blog DIRECTLY from the photo's Flickr page! Oh my! This is SO easy. Click click click write an entry and click - and Bob's your uncle! It's done. Wow.
So this is my new lace project.
So this is my new lace project.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Whew - a blink and September ended
Fall is breaking through here now. A few trees are turning but nothing dramatic. Finally we got an inch of rain yesterday.
October has a vacation scheduled in it - with two day trips to the mountains for leaf-peeking. The rest of the vacation will be spent doing large projects around the house. Mike is going to work on the yard (we live in an area where neither Northern nor Southern grasses thrive) and I think he's going to work on the garden fence. I guess the front porch, with it's peeling paint, will wait another year.....I'm not sure how much longer I can hold off on calling the painters so he can enjoy the porch renovation he's been postponing uhhhhhh, I mean to say, wanting to do. I'm planning on drawing the line sometime during the second decade of annual postponements. And the Fiber Fair is in Asheville. I have a day trip planned for the first day when it opens with a friend who is a major knitter. She works as a paramedic, so when she's not out on a call, she knits at the firehouse.
Mostly I'm just glad I made it through Sept, which was like a marathon of events. I wrapped it up with a board meeting of the statewide paralegal association, and was happy to turn the page on my calendar.
October has a vacation scheduled in it - with two day trips to the mountains for leaf-peeking. The rest of the vacation will be spent doing large projects around the house. Mike is going to work on the yard (we live in an area where neither Northern nor Southern grasses thrive) and I think he's going to work on the garden fence. I guess the front porch, with it's peeling paint, will wait another year.....I'm not sure how much longer I can hold off on calling the painters so he can enjoy the porch renovation he's been postponing uhhhhhh, I mean to say, wanting to do. I'm planning on drawing the line sometime during the second decade of annual postponements. And the Fiber Fair is in Asheville. I have a day trip planned for the first day when it opens with a friend who is a major knitter. She works as a paramedic, so when she's not out on a call, she knits at the firehouse.
Mostly I'm just glad I made it through Sept, which was like a marathon of events. I wrapped it up with a board meeting of the statewide paralegal association, and was happy to turn the page on my calendar.
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