Winter done: Spring 2024 cardfile/focus weeks

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I am only putting one thing on my list today: Closets. I have been pushing it off all week. Even if I don't get anything else done; I will be okay!

I have a vet appointment at 10 for one of the dogs.

just getting started on closets
it's going to be okay.

I did my botany word of the day: BERRY

I did my latin for the day
picea (spruce),
Pinus (pines),
Abies (Firs)

learned the
feminine: Abietina,
masculine: abietinus,
Neuter: Abietirum

from the Pinaceae family.

GYNMOSPERMS

learned it is not a monocot or a dicot but a conifer.

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Saturday February 17th finished the day well

BE GRATEFUL!

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alrighty I have my week planned - hopeful but not worried if things aren't perfect, no menu plan though

February 18, 2024 Sunday

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February 19, 2024
finished this party - I got a lot done.

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February 20, 2024

I took time for myself

Tuesday: Bathroom day
hoping to work outside in the garage and pick up dog toys.
Everything is frozen right now.

bathroom jobs to choose from:
dust walls and ceiling
spray mold inhibitor
windows swipe
wash trim and bottom walls
clean glass on sliding shower doors
talk to dh re: medicine cabinet
clean toilets
clean sinks
clean floors
clean vents
clean doors

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kitchen that I missed yesterday
clean the table well.

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vacuum first floor
rinse kitchen
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clean cat litter
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outside:
clean up dog toys took one hour - plus I had to throw the ball as I picked up - dogs had a good run.
next check to see if other animals are out so I can toss stuff and put away stuff
work in garage if weather gets warm
if weather gets warm - see if I can pull weeds or do plant cut down for spring.

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rested bc of bs problems

"people romanticize their plans but dread the execution. The magic you're looking for is in the work your avoiding" One Fit Widow

I think this was a reminder to stop raising chickens on paper. REMEMBER TODAY

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February 22, Thursday is done and in the books.
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botany word of the day: ray
1. the elongated fused corolla (collective term for petals of a flower), of some flowers in the sunflower family (asteraceae)
2. in wood; a bland of tissue that runs perpendicular to the vascular tissue (XYLEM AND PHLOEM) creating cross markings across the vascular rings
Synonym: ligule
- There are Xylem rays and Phloem Rays

word of the week: TRACHOPHYTES: Vascular plants
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today d dog has appointment at 10:15

February 23, 2024 here I come.
now I am done

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February 24, 2024
Saturday.
day is done.

Word of the day:
GENUS: OENOTHERA: Herbaceous*flowering plants native to the Americas (i.e. evening primrose, Gaura) FAMILY: ONAGRACEAE NOTE: NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH PRIMROSE AS THAT IS FROM A DIFFERENT FAMILY - FROM THE FAMILY PRIMULACEAE
*HERBACEOUS: vascular plants that have NO persistent wood stems above the ground.

PULLED LILAC CARD:

SYRINGA
"Syringa is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family or Oleaceae[1] called lilacs."
Kingdom: PLANTAE
Clade: TRACHEOPHYTES: vascular plants
Clade: ANGEIOSPERMS
Clade: EUDICOTS
Clade: ASTERIDS (LARGE FLOWERING)
Order: LAMIALES
Family: OLEACEAE
Tribe: OLEEAE
Sub-tribe: LIGUSTRINAE
GENUS: SYRINGA

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February 26, 2024
Monday! I am shocked on how fast the weeks are going!
yay day is checked off - dd older is home again and exhausted.

word of the day: PHANEROPHYTES Having their bud bearing shoots in the air: with a few exceptions are trees, shrubs and Lianes
The majority of conifer and dicot tree species fall into this category as to Tree ferns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_fernand ,many palm and cycad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycadspecies.

they are subdivided
Height-class: tall, medium, low tree species
According to whether the buds have or lack scales
whether their leaves are evergreen or deciduous