Saturday Treat PWYC

[Dove]

Happy Birthday, Kally! Hope you're having a wonderful day.

I saw a picture of cupcakes decorated like lambs -- too cute! . Here's a link to the recipe that has a picture:
http://www.landolakes.com/recipe/3481/lamb-cupcakes

I'm supposed to be making dinner instead of reading here. Better get to it ...

[Twins' Mom]

Done, and will go another round. I also started a lol that time.
Clear kitchen table as much as possible
Take out kitchen garbage
Put away a basket of laundry and assorted stuff to go upstairs
Make the bed
Bring down dirty laundry

[Kally]

Thanks for the birthday wishes. It's been a quiet, slow day. My dcousin called, she lives about 2.5 hours away & I don't see her very often.

Wish I could bottle up this weather. Absolutely beautiful!

[Twins' Mom]

I rebooted the laundry and am sitting outside w ddogs and relaxing. Our weather has turned cooler since the storms last night and rAin earlier today.

Happy birthday, Kally!

[Lynlee]

Happy Birthday Kally

I did once see a copy of monthly temp averages for some place in the northern hemisphere -not sure if it was america or europe now - and it does make sence that your seasons start almost a month later. Here it can be really hot with summer storms from Nov on. And mostly the really hot days are over in March. April heat way over 100f is fairly rare..

I decided on some tlc today. Trying to do self care at scheduled times. Slept in after a late night. Put on lol, then took myself and ddog for a walk after Tmeds.
I had a pear for morning tea i/l of breakfast. They are really nice this year. Washing needs to go out now.

I need ask neighbour to mow before the next set of rain days comes in. I could have asked yesterday when I saw them in the yard but didn't. *sigh* Its looking like that could arrive anytime soon. Hoping for a few hours grace.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Lynlee: good job on self-care today. You are setting an example for me tomorrow.

Lilac: When we sold our house by ourselves (22 years ago) we had an open house that generated three offers by the deadline of Wednesday. The first was quite low, the second had too many conditions and the third, while a bit low, was from a couple who were renting so they were a good choice. On the Wednesday we received a phone call from the first person, saying they had to lower their offer. We said that was fine, we had other offers. She called back shortly after offering the full asking price. Because she had been so unreliable, we chose to go with the renters.

The situation isn't the same (you don't have someone else more reliable but offering less money identified right now) but I remember feeling that unreliable would cause me grief in the long-run. And I feel that way about this woman who wants your house whenever you post about her.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

I've been working hard since dinner on housework but am very slow moving. Still need to damp mop the kitchen floor but I've got the rest of the ground floor dusted and vacuumed and the foyer mopped.

Put away some things in the storage room and checked for water - none even though we've restarted both water conditioners again.

The dishwasher is running and I'm tired so it is lulling me to sleep. But no rest at this point, I still have this sticky floor to wash and then my devotions to do. I've missed those for two days now.

Edited to add: kitchen floor is washed. The water I dumped down the drain was really dirty so it wasn't my imagination, the house, while tidy looking, was dirty. After all, it has been 8 weeks since I've done a 'weekly' clean. We were away for 5 weeks of that time but that doesn't stop all dust from settling plus there is still 3 weeks of our dirt.

Dh's movie is over so I'm off to bed without having done the last two items on my to-do list for the day. I'm dead on my feet, though, so I'm giving up. It took me 90 minutes to dust 1/2 the main floor, clean up the kitchen from dinner and mop the floors. There is no way that should have taken that long so I'm moving really, really, slowly.

[Harmony]

Hello villagers.

Lucylee, I'm sorry your DDad is having a rough time in the hospital. I'd hoped he would get better. I'm glad the funeral was nice and I'll bet you're glad it is all over, at least that part of getting used to all this change.

Happy Birthday Kally!

Nancy, it is an ongoing chore to keep a house "show" ready. Even when we did not live in our other house I had to go over and clean and dust and weed and mow for a showing. I'm not looking forward to someday getting into that again.

Dove those lamb cupcakes are cute, but they'd sure be sweet with all the marshmallows!

From the other day: I remember DSis and I running around playing cowboys and Indians with our cap guns!

I have noticed the Spi der Bo t constantly with us too. I don't know why but it makes me nervous, like someone is spying on me.

I ran out and bought DH a new tie this AM. It took me half a day to get ready for the wedding, with ironing all the clothes, dying my hair and rolling, a manicure, changing purses, helping DH. But the wedding was beautiful, in a very pretty place along the water. We did get the 4 generations together and get a picture. (Harriet, yes it is DFiL who is GrGFather to newest baby and his siblings). We're lucky he's still with us as he's not in good health, but somehow keeps staying with us. DStepMiL has her hands full taking care of him.

We said goodbye to DH's son & family as they head south for a couple days before flying home. He got a picture on his phone that showed hail in his yard, so it'll be different when they get there. DH's brother and wife is still in town and we may see them one night for dinner before they head back. Family is great, even ones we're not so close with, or ones that have problems; when we get together we manage to put all that aside and have a good time.

I'll be glad to get back to my usual schedule around here. I got one set of sheets washed and hanging up, lots more to do.

[Harriet]

HRH and dstepson fixed a flat tire on the lawnmower and got the entire lawn mowed right before the storm broke here. Very happy about that. The grass is growing so fast if you look away you don't recognize it when you look back.

He just made up a spaghetti sauce out of a pound of grass-fed beef I got a good price on at the healthy food store the other day. Neither one of us will eat it tonight because we'd have heartburn, but he didn't want to wait another day to cook it, so this makes him feel better to have it made up, ready for tomorrow. He won't keep ground beef more than a few days and this was too nice to think about wasting.

I don't think I've ever run out and bought a man's tie right before an event, Harmony! I guess I think of men's ties like Erma Bombeck used to hope about boxes, there will be one when you need one, lol. I hope dh appreciates you.

Dd13 is still coughing but feels better. I wish we all had signs on our foreheads when we got symptoms, that would say, "Needs Antibiotic" or "Doesn't Need Antibiotic". Now that I'm living with the decision to give it to her I'm feeling guilty on the other side of the coin - who knows if we've done more harm than good. I bought some children's kefir to try to replenish the good bacteria and she hates it like it was swamp water.

I have found a very pleasant site called online literature .com and have been enjoying test-reads of the first chapters or so of some classics dd13 might be reading next. There is also a lot of fascinating bio info on some of the authors that I had never heard before. It's helped me steer her away from some that are more tedious than I remembered and toward some that are more interesting than I knew. For all I know you have all seen this site before, but if not I highly recommend it. For the long list of authors, you scroll down the home page.

[Lilac]

Kathryn, thank you for your input and telling me about your experience. We had an open house the first weekend, which was 5 weeks ago tomorrow. It was not well attended. We are debating trying it again.

Harmony, as I was mowing today, I was thinking about you and all you went thru while trying to sell your house.