Good morning, villagers,
When I saw the title of today's thread, it immediately took me back to being a little girl waking up on Sunday mornings and hearing DMom singing with the radio. We had a tiny house so the radio in the kitchen was easily heard in the bedrooms. DMom loved an AM station that played old time country music and she would sing along while she fixed breakfast before church. It was a sweet, gentle time.
I'm glad you are feeling better, Nancy.
Anyway, checking in: I don't remember when I posted last, therefore I'll just start where I am now.
I worked at the library yesterday. Business was steady all day with patrons coming in ahead of the next snowstorm.
I got home around 2:30ish and DH took me out to eat at the local diner. He had a pork tenderloin sandwich with fried breaded mushrooms, and I had an old-fashioned meatloaf dinner with green beans and mashed potatoes with gravy. Comfort food for a long winter.
The weather was sunny and beautiful for most of yesterday. These are the days when even though the temperature is well below freezing, being able to see bright sunshine makes everyone feel warmer. The roads were almost all clear and dry so DH decided to go for a drive over to the state park to check out the river. No running water visible, totally frozen and covered with snow. The snowmobile owners are loving this winter. Then when we got to the park, it was interesting to see the whole big lake frozen as well, and lots of ice fishermen out there. DH and I agreed that ice fishing has never, ever appealed to us.
It was good to get out and go for that drive. Now we are forecast for another 6-7 inches of snow to come today, so we probably won't go anywhere. Just hope they get the roads cleared again by tomorrow morning. Someone at the library yesterday said that the school had planned for only 2 snow days this year but they've already had 10 so far and there is still a lot of winter left to get through. They'll be in school well into June.
Today I want to clear out and clean our front entry and hall. I've been trying to get to that zone for a year but every time I start, I'm interrupted and don't get back to it. We never use our front door, which makes that entry area a much lower priority for cleaning than other rooms, so it usually is left for last. It has started to really get me down, though, every time I walk past it and see the clutter, dust, and dirty carpet.
(Some day I'm going to rip out that carpet! Sorry, decorators, but I think carpet in any entry is a stupid, unnecessary dirt trap.) I know for sure that I will feel much, much better when that area is finally clean because it will be easy to KEEP it clean once it's done.
I have the impression that there is a certain tipping point in the cleaning process, a point of no return, in any awful, yucky cleaning job that needs several hours of hard work. If I can ever make it to that point with the front entry, then it will be easier to continue the yucky awful cleaning job than to put it on pause again and have to start over another day. Maybe today I can get to that point -- no hope of finishing the whole project in 1 day, but might reach the state that continuing the job won't take such a major effort.