A Great Weekend!

After weeks of trying the garage sale finally happened!!! I was going to take more pictures but the camera battery konked out right after I took this one! It was great, we made enough money to get a filing cabinet, so I can finally organize my study, and it was a beautiful weekend!


Oh, and an update on the "Wilderness" this is the view that greeted me this morning out of my bedroom window! We have made some progress! I have a pair of robins who are keeping the earthworm population in check. I am calling them Eleanor and Edward. They are so bold they came and hunted while Tom and I sat out there yesterday evening!

Here is the mystery flower that finally bloomed, it looks like an amaryllis although I will be doing more research to be sure......


Ah! And this beautiful bearded iris, is representing the 3 beautiful blooms I have right now! I also have a bunch of barely yellow dutch iris too! It is great to inherit mystery plants!

Hope you have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

Maybe, Just Maybe....

I think we are feeling better.... Tom finally succumbed on Thursday to what I am now calling the flu. It is the only explanation I can come up with for it taking so long to get better and making us all feel awful. We did get flu shots, months ago, maybe it helped make it a lighter case. Who knows.

So, I forayed into the hour drive it takes to get to the grocery store today. And I bought plants for the yard. Yes, we have two grocery stores in town, but after finding untold amounts of expired food and this week I found an earwig in our bread --eeewww-- I prefer to drive an hour to a more, um, acceptable, store.

So, if I have not answered emails, not made sense on the phone, or coughed in your ear in the last 2 weeks, I apologize. Please pray we don't have another round, I am dying for "normal" life!!!

Have a great rest of the weekend!

Requiem for a Garage Sale

Too sick, to sell;
Too tired, to care.
It would have been fun, to watch the plunder.
To have a little cash to go out to dine,
But, alas, tonight I sing bass,
And pay tribute to another April day.
After a time has passed we will try again,
This time they will come and buy and sell.
But tonight it's TV and Benadryl.....

Cough, cough, sneeze, cough

In case you didn't figure it out already, we are down with the crud, the cold the whatever....

But, I am still planning to have that garage sale, I am hoping to feel good enough to thoroughly Spring clean next week too (the girls will be thrilled). So I just thought I would send the word out! Congratulations to D., H. & R. on their new baby girl/sister. I wish I was close enough to hold her!!!

Oh, and by the way, I am losing the tournament big time, the Irish failed me this year (the luck that is, not Notre Dame). So, I guess maybe I should pay more attention this next year! ;-) Oh, and be happy for Tom's win -- Nah, I think he is happy enough for both of us! ;-}

Ok, I am off to take more dissolvable vitamins and start pricing junk!