Here's what I did in order of activity:
Saturday morning I woke up early, way before the cats had started their furry vulturing for breakfast, got dressed, fed said furry vultures, and bundled myself in my car. And when I say bundled, I mean dressed for friggin' winter again. I zoomed over to one of the town churches' annual Giant Yard Sale held in their parking lot, 100+ tables. Lots to look at. All I managed to find were several bundles of free hangers for one of my clients, an old hardcover of one of my childhood books for 25 cents, and a triple cat pin for a buck. And luckily kept all my fingers from getting frostbitten. Brrrrrr! That wind was vicious!
Had been thinking about Mr. Bagel for 2 weeks so I drove over after the sale and got a pumpernickel bagel with a light schmear of Sundried Tomato/Garlic crm chz. HEAVEN! Got two extra pmprnckl bagels for the rest of the weekend... I needed major reinforcements for yard work!
After delicately woofing down my forbidden delight, I visited a furniture yard sale on the way back home and found to my great excitement, a big-ass wooden rocker! I have always wanted a rocking chair but they've been way too expensive and then I start thinking about where in the hell would I put it. For $20 bucks I most certainly could find a place for it. And it fit in my Fit like it was meant for me which it was.
Got back home and immediately started working on the puzzle that is my postage stamp-sized living room. I moved three things out of the living room into the basement, moved the elliptical towards the front door so it no longer sticks out, the rocking chair is on the other side of the love seat, and when I want to sit in it I just pull it out into the middle of the room (which is now empty and my living room paradoxically looks bigger, hmmm) and rock to my heart's content.
All the stuff moved to the basement reminded me of some rearranging down there I wanted to do, so I jigsawed down there for a while. Looks good at the bottom of my stairs now. If I ever get around to it, now I have room for the emergency food stash that my best friend J is trying to get me to put together.
Still had some time so I pulled up a bucketful of dandelions. I only got a day and a half before the second wave popped their little yellow heads up.
Still had some time so I pulled up a bucketful of dandelions. I only got a day and a half before the second wave popped their little yellow heads up.
Made it on time to walk my parents' dogger, Rileypants, at noon. He was very happy to see me. We did our usual unpaved street which has mucho sniffs and messages and Riley had to leave so many messages in return he was peeing hot air by the halfway point so he had to drink from some of the moving water streamlets on the sides of the road and viola! the message machine was back in action! Back at the parental unit's home, he got to chew on sticks in the sun after I hosed him off, rolled around in the grass (have to remember to video him doing this, bring my digicamera next time!), ate his lunch, got his Kong, and off I went.
Home again, I showered, got warmly dressed, went out to find s'more supplies - I thought the Wal-Mart was going to have everything but they were OUT of everything so I had to back track to the local grocery - got everything finally, and off to a...
Bonfire, a HUGE bonfire, so damn big that you couldn't get within 3-4 feet of it or your eyebrows would singe off, your skin started to crackle, and anything metal on you could not be touched. We had dinner, drinks, and then s'mores! Later after bottle rocks going awry and shots (not me), there were strong indications of some mud-wrestling (the ground around the fire was very mushy/soggy) and I decided to leave at that point as Slambo don't play that.
Woke up Sunday morning to a full day of yard work - planted a buttload of white (so he says) irises that my neighbor gave me, moved a walkway, moved my birdbath, raked the remains of leaves/pine needles, pulled up maple seedlings (strong little f'ers!), pulled up dead stems (my back started hurting so I used the Pilates Elephant and no more back pain, even today!) from a huge spread that grows about a foot in diameter every year and makes bright yellow flowers, and trimmed the dead stuff off all my roses.
Inside at 3:36pm, checked my messages, had one from Dad saying he was on board for a movie and coming over at 3:45pm to get me. I took the fastest shower I have EVER taken, dried, only moisturized a third, wet hair up in clips, and was 2/3s dressed when Dad called to say he was on his way.
We saw Safe. Love me some Jason Statham. Yum.
Home for dinner, cats fed, and bedtime reading until the book hit me in the face which at that point was literally lights out for all of us.
This morning I saw a mourning dove sitting on the newly moved bird bath all fluffed up and resting with it's tail feathers in the water. Too cute!
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