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!

"...a prettyish kind of little wilderness..."

I have this little corner of the yard that I have high hopes for. It is an old flower garden that has fallen into neglect. There are tons of mystery bulbs coming up this year and I am in the process of learning what they are and how to care for them. I can't wait for things to grow and bloom so I can bring my coffee out here in the mornings and sip coffee and look at the plants. I love flowers and gardening. I desperately miss a few plants I had in my old yard. I hope they are doing well!

So here are the before pics. All I have done is started the clean-up efforts:


See my cosy spot to sit and reflect?
Here are some of the bulbs, I know I have iris, cannas, and maybe some hollyhocks....
I am going to reset the stepping stones and my wonderful hubby put up that wooden picket fence for me to keep the dogs out -- They're thrilled.

Yawn.....

Ok, it's 7am. I have decided if Tom and I both get up early maybe we will both go to bed at a decent hour at night. This time change has messed us up royally! First of all, it is still light outside at 8:00 when we put the kids to bed, and then we talk, internet, mess with our basketball brackets, and watch mindless television until way too late. So, here I am in the pitch dark (well, outside it's pitch dark) at 7am. Yawn.

I have been going through the rest of the boxes and making a massive garage sale pile. The house is so messy right now with all of the boxes but the girls have a "hotel" made of empty wardrobe boxes that Tom taped together with strategically placed windows doors and rooms. It is so cool I wish I could play in it, and I almost had to cut Tom out of it!!! ;-) So if the wind doesn't blow, and it doesn't rain (rain? what's that?). We are having a massive post-moving sale the first weekend in April. Good-bye junk. Hello cash. I'll try to remember to photograph the carnage to show you.

March madness always adds pizazz around here. When we first married, we decided not to have television for our first year of marriage. We married in November. In March, Tom decided to hook our TV up to a random cord from our attic, hooked up an antennae and watched basketball for a month! Interesting. After that every year in March he would be glued to the tv watching basketball.....hmmmm. So, I decided I could gripe. I could fuss. Or, I could... start loving it too! So, every year we pick a bracket to pit against one another. Tom picks his based upon actual basketball knowledge, and I pick mine with the good ole luck 'o the Irish. Sometimes he wins, sometimes I win, but it is great fun! And, it's the only time of the year I actually try to navigate ESPN's website, I think it must be made by men! :-]

Off to sort through more junk!

I've Been Tagged!

Robin tagged me, so here goes! ;-)

If I were a shoe, I'd be a little sandal with toe marks.
If I were a city, I'd be Dallas.
If I were a season, I'd be Spring.
If I were a car, I’d be a pick-up with a dog crate in the back.
If I were a vegetable, I’d be broccoli.
If I were a fruit, I’d be a sweet red strawberry.
If I were a color, I’d be olive green.
If I were furniture, I’d be a comfy couch.
If I were a country, I’d be USA.
If I were a beverage, I'd be Coca-cola.
If I were clothing, I'd be Jeans.
If I were weather, I'd be hot and sunny.
If I were a dessert, I’d be chocolate ice cream.
If I were a plant, I’d be a daisy.