Five for Friday

It’s a tad past the normal tine of week for this. Let’s see where ,my brain takes me to this week.

1. Sophies likes me sharing animal crackers with her.
2. My version of MS Office won’t update. Bill done went and made new upgrades only specific to certain version. That’s his way of making sure that you buy the new version and pay full price for it. Stupid Microsoft.
3. I can start getting knee deep in yard chores now that it has warmed up and appears to be staying that way. However, this is the Frozen Tundra and you never really know.
4. This is a good weekend to finish putting plants in my garden beds. I’ll have to start a couple jack o’lantern plants sometime in the near future. Maybe the greenhouse down the road has some cantaloupe plants.
5. I like it whenever the postman drops off boxes of record albums. It’s like Christms morning unboxing them.

There you have it. Feel free to comment and/or wave a friendly “HOWDY!” if’n you want to.

Five for Friday

It’s Friday once again and it’s time to knock off some of those cobwebs that are cluttering up the ol’ grey matter. Let’s see ..

1. The guys next door borrowed my lawn tractor and my gas to mow their lawn. Their Mom paid me back by sending over a plateful of fresh egg rolls. Damn, they’r good but I don’t need them for my waistline. Sophie likes them too. It took her a little bit of time to get used to the shredded cabbage in them.
2. Back to another season of working on my lawn. I don’t mind. It gets me outside. I always get areas of grass die off next to my driveway and I’ve never figure out how to stop it. Maybe one year I will figure it out.
3. I have two garden beds to till as well. I can get my green beans planted this weekend. Maybe some tomato plants as well. I can’t forget to finish chopping down that tree.
4. The starlings are back once again on their way north. They raided my big bird feeder and ate up most of the seed after chasing my other birds away.
5. I need a haircut. I’m starting to look like a hippy. It’s not a good look on me.

There ya have it. Feel free to comment and/or wave a vigorous “HOWDY!” on the way thru if’n you would like.

Tuesday Afternnon

I get to play Fred Washington sometime this week. Fred was George’s lesser known and not very famous cousin. George chopped down a cherry tree and became famous. Fred chopped down a dead crabapple tree and wasn’t famous . This was before Tik-Tok or IG for this historic event. There won’t be any video of me cutting down two dead crabapples either.

Late Sunday Afternoon

I’m all settled in for the evening. We had a trip to my store of dreams to pick up some garden soil and cow manure for the tubs that I had picked up to grow potatoes in. Somewhere along the way I had decided to place the tub s in the big garden bed. Then I decided to bury them about to their halfway up point. I worked out well. Too bad I decided to bury them after I had filled them up. No matter. That chore is checked off.

I decided it was a good day to plant peas as well. They’re in and covered and that was done right before a nice light rain started to fall. Sophie was not too plussed up about the rain. But she hung with me up until I went inside for some small zip strips. She decided to stay inside and sleep while I was fastening some deer netting on to the trellis so the peas will have something to cling to as they grow. They’re in a nice place which will give them lots of sunshine for a good part of the day.

It’s time to till my last two beds. It’s time to use my smaller hoop house as well for cucumbers and zucchini. But not today. I decided that this is a lazy Sunday afternoon off to enjoy the rain, the peace and the quiet.

Five for Friday

It’s that time of week once again to put the ol’ grey matter to the test. Let’ see …

1. I’m mentally tired today with work. It’s been a trying week. I took the afternoon off to regroup.
2. It’s a trip across the river into Cheese Land this afternoon to retrieve some albums that I bought online. I’m going to run out of space in my two Kallax shelves which will mean I will have to buy another from the Ikea store.
3. I don’t mind the rain at all only I wish it would warm up as well. I’m getting the gardening itch.
4. I keep shaking my head at the upcoming November election. We are so screwed.
5. There are lots of bunnies and squirrels for Sophie to chase this year. It’s funny seeing her ran just as fast as her little legs will carry her. She has a lot of fun chasing them. I’m not sure she would know what to do with one if she should ever catch one.

There you have it. Feel free to comment and/or wave a vigorous “HOWDY” on the way thru if’n you would like.