Garden Trowel Tuesday

[helia]

Sounds like a lovely day yesterday, Kitty. Enjoy your walk in the park by the stream today! That sounds like a wonderful walking route.
Sleep well and see you soon, Doggedly. Your house probably smells great by now - fresh bread!

I'm up early for me. I'm leaving in 10 minutes to pick up MM and take her to the airport. It is currently 21F (-6.1C) with 14F (-10C) with windchill. It looks like we're expected to get up to 41F today. Sunshine will hopefully make this a pretty day. I didn't jog yesterday, so I'm hoping to get to that this afternoon.

Yesterday was eaten up by a lot of payroll, grading, prep, teaching, working on an exam for exam prep that we technically aren't supposed to do but teacher LH was feeling overwhelmed. This is support for her. Then, I discovered a weighting error/ inconsistency on this exam -- and that caused a lot of communication and strategies. Dh and I did have a zoom call in the evening with ds + F. Baby I was there for part of it. She's got the cutest chubby cheeks ever!

Our university's basketball team won the national championship last night! We didn't watch it but I checked this morning. Some people will be very happy!

Today, I have 3 events on my calendar: 1. Take MM to the airport - pick her up at 7:15. I should be home around 8:15. 2. KS2J get together - I think this is happening after 10 a.m.? at J's home. 3. Hosting T dinner -We're just going to serve Easter dinner leftovers, so no need to cook. There's a chance it won't happen; if dd30 can't make it, then we'll cancel. We don't do T dinner with just M, our housemate.

Other things to do today: Jog, get groceries, get clean sheets on the bed, and lots of progress on exam prep. And refill the bird feeder for the poor starving birds. It's completely empty.

Next:
- pick up MM
- drive her to the airport
- drive home

TaDas
- up; weighed self -- egads!
- email deletions + weather website
- coffee

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Tue 7:15 pu MM and take her to the airport/ 10 - KS2J get together/ 6:30 host Tuesday dinner crew
Wed 11-1 payroll: teach IW D10
Thu 9ish? walk with friend B/ 11-12 payroll: CA ci mtg. with AC/ 1-1:40 payroll seminar/ 4-5 work out with AS/ 6-7:30ish help with Vol ESL class?
Fri 11-1 payroll: teach IW D10/ 4 -5 payroll: exit test? / dinner date with dh
Sat
Sun 8 a.m. 5K citywide run (with M and dh)/ 6:00 host Sunday dinner

Menus:
M quinoa, rice, toppings, salad
T (host diner crew) - Easter leftovers (lamb, mashed potatoes, root veggies)
W
Th (early - I need to be otd by 5:40 to help with Vol. ESL class)
F OUT with dh
Sa leftovers?
Sun rot. chicken, bread, pizza,

APRIL Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- clean sheets on MBR bed
- remake guest beds
- can I spend some time decluttering in MBR?

This Week - Deskwork
- Writing progress - wip
- order wedding gift: V + J
- BD card to DS

This Week - Errands

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually

[Bama]

Good morning!
My goodness, it’s only 6am here and we are on the 2nd page, looks like a productive day.

Kitty, thanks for the start. Sounds like you have a scenic area nice for walking.

Helia, wtg putting out those work fires. Aw, I’m so happy you got to chat with baby I and her parents.

Dogged, I would love to wake up to the smell of baking bread. Hope the power being out doesn’t inconvenience you too much.

Gma, love the shem. Enjoy your book.

Kitkat, I don’t know who thought up these traditions of throwing things at women or hitting them with objects but I’m thankful I don’t meet the requirements lol.

I woke at 4 and let the dogs out, played my games, been piddling online, it doesn’t look like I’m going back to sleep so I think I will make a cup of coffee and sit outside with the pups to watch the sun come up.

[Bama]

For some reason, I’m getting the urge to garden lol (this weeks topic is making me want to get my hands in the dirt).

♥ Tuesday focus - tackle this list, monthlies ♥
Monthlies - face mask, clean glass, wash doors
Wear sunscreen
Weigh
Water
Take vitamin, supplements
8-)Bible
Sign up for cruise activities, need passport first
Wfd - chicken sausage, cabbage, cornbread, potato?
Pet chores
Pet extras
Beau - eye cream?
Walk dogs am pm
Spot clean
Dust
Vacuum
Laundry: porch rugs
Kitchen:
Dw unloaded, loaded, running
Try apple, peanut butter, whipped cream, put in container and shake to mix; cook apple beet carrot
7 soda bottles soaking round 2
Dining, Kitchen, Laundry : Patch floor spots w concrete paint
Living:
Tidy mantle
Foyer: move console to living room
Work on junk room!
Put shelving units together!
Outside:
Glue pins back in shutters
Treat antbeds
Weed under picnic tables
Weed around fig, crepe myrtle
Plant bulbs in pot from grandmas house
Power wash house and porch rails
Pull up gardenias
10 minute weed
Work on front flowerbeds
Fertilize blueberries, figs
Moms -
Load ladder, lamps, couch, floor vinyl for Hollywood
Pack contents and bring curios to my house
Clean out an area
Paper/Online:
Mail
Emails
Pw filled out purina app and submitted receipts
Planner
Self:
Play daily games
Something fun and crafty
Daily habit thread - abs plus rest of list
Beyond:
Make dr appointment
Make dental appointment
Shop for tsa approved luggage
Watch “The Madison” on paramount
Make mushroom coffee in French press or iced coffee
Repot inside plants in larger pots
Passports - make appointment, find birth certificates, print forms
Make wasp nests out of paper bags to scare away carpenter bees (find paper bags)
Schedule atv service
Shop for new range
Wash jars/bottles I’m keeping for Hollywood
Find boarding kennel, ask vet for referral and check out
Taxes - print paperwork, get last years taxes
Courthouse - take pw for car
Friday - haircut, passport? Hollywood? Pace nursery?

[helia]

Wow! Enjoy the sunrise, Bama. I hope you can get to some gardening this week.

I'm back from the airport drop off; I returned at 8:30 rather than 8:15. I have refilled the bird feeder and reclaimed the kitchen. Next - back exercises and s2s.

Next:
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe shower
- strip MBR bed

Later:
- some qt
- 10-12ish S2KJ get together @ J's home
- lunch
- after lunch clean up
- menu plan and groc. list
- WF run - lunch odds and ends
- dress to jog
- jog
- Kroger: order? shop?
- payroll: draft of IR Exam ready
- payroll: start prep for IW D10
- sheets: w d f pa
- remake bed with clean sheets
- Are we hosting T dinner?
- dinner - Easter leftovers (lamb, potatoes, root veggies)
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps
- other things? Read?

TaDas
- up; weighed self -- egads!
- email deletions + weather website
- coffee
- picked up MM; drove her to the airport
- drove home
- refilled bird feeder
- reclaimed kitchen

[Doggedly]

Hi, all. Typing on my phone, so limited updates. Boy, those guys didn't waste any time in shutting off the power. I got up at 8:30 to take out the bread, start the coffee, and unplug everything, and the power went out while I was still unplugging everything. So I guess they're serious about being down all day. No worries, I have bread, coffee, my phone with internet and a weird little emergency radio that can't find CBC Radio One, but found their classical music station.

Wishing you all a pleasant and productive day!

[kitkat]

Good morning-
finally, I get to check in:)
Thank you for the headstart. Garden trowels need to wait here: we had a little dusting of snow... also, - 4 C this morning with some serious windchill added to the mix....
Sorry I can't CUOP right now - will do when I'm back

I'm dressed,
took my meds
fed dpup/took her to doggie school:)
Dropped off coffee at DD (Dlittle is sick)
picked up breads at bakery
dropped off some at DD (second trip)
Did 3 lol so far

Next:
flip lol
off for a little self care:)
BIAB

[L.Ann]

1-refill bird feeder
2-read
3-wash windows in spare room



Menus
Tuesday-chicken burrito bowl
Wednesday-DD33 dinner out/me leftovers
Thursday-sweet soy honey chicken
Friday-chicken and Greek salad pita pocket
Saturday-loaded Greek feta fries
Sunday-pick up something on way home from theater

Events
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:50-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, breakfast out with friends 8:30
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:50-5 , Little Bit school 9:15-3, tulip pick up 11-1, DD33 PS 3-8, library with Little Bit
Thursday-Little Bit 7:00, Little Bit school 9:15-3, 7:30 DD33 physical, DD33 Special Olympics Spring Games
Friday-Little Bit 7:50-5 , Little Bit school 9:15-3
Saturday-
Sunday-walk with friend@9, Les Mis@2

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Detailed cleaning of spare room- wash window #1, wash window#2, wash screen #1, wash screen #2, polish furniture, detailed vacuuming, scrub bathroom floor, swish and swipe bathroom, windex pictures, clean light fixture
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls- cancel eye appointment
Extra stuff-pick up DM’s taxes, send lab work to NIH, applications for TSApre check


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog
-diet site
-meds and temp for DD33
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-breakfast out
-take Little Bit to school
-library stop
-long walk

[trissie]

I don't really like your first SHEM, kittykatt! What do you mean, I actually have to get started to get something done?
helia, wow, that's kinda difficult to dress properly with this kind of weather! Says the woman who needed a heavy coat due to it being 2C in the morning and a sunhat due to it being 19C in the afternoon!
Bama, here, the water, perfume and other liquids are a women's weapon for carolling after noon! But for some reason that is even less popular
Dogged, will the building be still heated without electricity?
hi kitkat and L.Ann! you both posted while I was writing this!

Finally home. Just one of those days. Due to DH's cold (and terrible snoring, I didn't sleep much and gave up at 5pm. Work was OK, meetings and some research; after work I had to go pick up DS14's prescription. I kinda miscalculated - I thought the prescription was good till Wednesday, but it was only good till tonight, so I had to go to one of the three pharmacies in Prague which had both the items in sufficient quality (normally, I would have it delivered to the closest one, but it wouldn't be guaranteed to come today, and tomorrow the prescription would not go through). My fault, but I only checked Thursday evening and everything was closed till this morning. Oh well, it should teach me a lesson! We don't really need those meds yet, but the doctor gave me a prescription during our last visit, so it wasn't a high priority till it suddenly was.
I need to get started again...

TaDas
- morning madness
- day at work
- pick up DS14's prescription
- Tesco
- pick up DBD from school
- recharge a bit
- unload DW

ToDos
- morning routine
- clean downstairs bathroom window and install insect net
- 15 in garden

[Doggedly]

No, trissie, I think that they are relying on the surface to volume ratio for the building to slow heatloss. I was surprised at how fast the hot water disappeared. So far so good. I have been listening to the radio wrapped up in blankets and am comfortable that way.

[L.Ann]

According to google it should work, Bama. We had the really weird 2 and a half to three weeks where everything was covered with a snow/ice mix that was like concrete so that could have impacted things too. I think I am going to split two of the areas and then see how that goes next year before I do all of them.

1.windex pictures
2-pick up table
3-FACE

Menus
Tuesday-chicken burrito bowl
Wednesday-DD33 dinner out/me leftovers
Thursday-sweet soy honey chicken
Friday-chicken and Greek salad pita pocket
Saturday-loaded Greek feta fries
Sunday-pick up something on way home from theater

Events
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:50-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, breakfast out with friends 8:30
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:50-5 , Little Bit school 9:15-3, tulip pick up 11-1, DD33 PS 3-8, library with Little Bit
Thursday-Little Bit 7:00, Little Bit school 9:15-3, 7:30 DD33 physical, DD33 Special Olympics Spring Games
Friday-Little Bit 7:50-5 , Little Bit school 9:15-3
Saturday-
Sunday-walk with friend@9, Les Mis@2

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Detailed cleaning of spare room- wash screen #1, wash screen #2, polish furniture, detailed vacuuming, scrub bathroom floor, swish and swipe bathroom, windex pictures, clean light fixture
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls- cancel eye appointment
Extra stuff-pick up DM’s taxes, send lab work to NIH, applications for TSApre check


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog
-diet site
-meds and temp for DD33
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-breakfast out
-take Little Bit to school
-library stop
-long walk
-refill bird feeder
-read
-wash windows in spare room
-lunch
-gardening
-20 minutes tracking down lab work
-read
-clean kitchen
-drop of recycling
-pick up Little Bit
-snacks
-pack DD33’s lunch and dinner preprep