We stopped by for something to eat last night. As we were getting back in the car, Elvera said, “That was such a treat.”
We were at Fuddrucker’s!
We each had a big dog, a drink and split an order of fries.
My woman is so easy to please. Maybe that’s the reason she kept me for almost 57 years.
🙂 My husband and I have both made great progress on huge projects.
😦 🙂 He was so diligent on his that he ended up being given an extra assignment (more responsibility, but it isn’t something for pay).
🙂 I think I have fought off the cold I was dealing with for a few days.
😦 I think I’ve successfully fought off a lot of sleep, too, and I’m pretty groggy.
🙂 Goldfinches are almost completely changed into their summer outfits. (It takes a couple months or so; all spring long you see them brighter and brighter until one day they’re finally mostly yellow again. Today was the first day I really had to look to see hints of their winter wardrobes still lingering, like a little bit of yellow left in their caps.) We had three males and a female in our tree, and then another male flew in.
😦 I still have a lot more to do on the big project, I’m pretty sick of it, and I’m drowsy.
🙂 Very busy week with very pressing daily stories that have (again) pushed to long feature projects onto the back burner. People I’ve interviewed for them keep asking “When is our story running?” 😦 I’m feeling really guilty now. Got to get going on those first thing Monday. Unless, of course, they announce the arson arrest.
🙂 I got to interview writer Jon Katz by phone yesterday, I’ve long enjoyed his books & bedlam farm blog. If you’ve been following the horse carriage debate in NYC, he’s one of the leading advocates against the mayor’s proposed ban. Animal rights groups don’t like Katz much these days.
🙂 More rain last night, probably the last of it (and there wasn’t much) until late fall. But they’re predicting an El Nino year for us which could mean a heavy rain season in 2014-15. Sometimes when it rains it pours in California.
😦 My house looks like a disaster zone.
🙂 I don’t care much right now, I’m just grateful for a clear weekend (last weekend was jam-packed).
PS, if you like animals, beautifully photographed rural landscapes (both he and his wife are also photographers), check out the farm blog above. I followed it years ago, sort of forgot about it, but then rediscovered it early this year.
😦 😦 😦 This week I took my lawn mower to a new place that just opened here last fall. While mowing today I hit thick grass a few times that stopped the mower. I couldn’t pull the cord to restart it so I flipped it on its side (push mower) and had a hard time turning the blade. I got it restarted and went on, this happening two or three more times. Finally I checked the oil. It wasn’t even touching the dip stick! I hadn’t bothered to check since it had supposedly just been changed. So I looked some more and it doesn’t seem they sharpened the blade. I wonder if they even tuned it up since it doesn’t start easily when it dies.
😦 Not only that, but sometime in the winter the spout for my gas can broke off.
🙂 A little warmer than yesterday and should soon be even warmer
🙂 Sandhill cranes performing their mating dance in the field at the bottom of our acreage – husband has gone to try and get some good pictures
😦 Still nothing concrete from our daughter
🙂 She is in God’s hands
😦 Said goodbye to our young staff member yesterday – she wants to be working outside during the summer – she was a great young lady and I am going to miss her.
😦 Had to interview a whole swank of applicants this week to select the few who will then be interviewed by the boss – only a couple seemed right for our office.
😦 Husband is off to Ottawa for the week on Monday.
Kare, my husband will be gone overnight one night in a few days, our first night apart since we married. I decided it’s my chance to make split pea soup (the first since we married). He can’t stand peas, even the smell, so the summer before we married I made it several times, but not since then (almost three years). I’ve bought the canned stuff a couple of times, but realize I’ve been spoiled by making it myself–the canned stuff just doesn’t taste very good. So I’ll make it and freeze some and have myself a treat!
We had a wonderful lunch with the REAL AJ, his lovely wife, Cheryl, and their sweet daughter, Elizabeth (“don’t call her Liz”). He is real and he is real nice. 🙂
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We stopped by for something to eat last night. As we were getting back in the car, Elvera said, “That was such a treat.”
We were at Fuddrucker’s!
We each had a big dog, a drink and split an order of fries.
My woman is so easy to please. Maybe that’s the reason she kept me for almost 57 years.
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🙂 My husband and I have both made great progress on huge projects.
😦 🙂 He was so diligent on his that he ended up being given an extra assignment (more responsibility, but it isn’t something for pay).
🙂 I think I have fought off the cold I was dealing with for a few days.
😦 I think I’ve successfully fought off a lot of sleep, too, and I’m pretty groggy.
🙂 Goldfinches are almost completely changed into their summer outfits. (It takes a couple months or so; all spring long you see them brighter and brighter until one day they’re finally mostly yellow again. Today was the first day I really had to look to see hints of their winter wardrobes still lingering, like a little bit of yellow left in their caps.) We had three males and a female in our tree, and then another male flew in.
😦 I still have a lot more to do on the big project, I’m pretty sick of it, and I’m drowsy.
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🙂 Very busy week with very pressing daily stories that have (again) pushed to long feature projects onto the back burner. People I’ve interviewed for them keep asking “When is our story running?” 😦 I’m feeling really guilty now. Got to get going on those first thing Monday. Unless, of course, they announce the arson arrest.
🙂 I got to interview writer Jon Katz by phone yesterday, I’ve long enjoyed his books & bedlam farm blog. If you’ve been following the horse carriage debate in NYC, he’s one of the leading advocates against the mayor’s proposed ban. Animal rights groups don’t like Katz much these days.
🙂 More rain last night, probably the last of it (and there wasn’t much) until late fall. But they’re predicting an El Nino year for us which could mean a heavy rain season in 2014-15. Sometimes when it rains it pours in California.
😦 My house looks like a disaster zone.
🙂 I don’t care much right now, I’m just grateful for a clear weekend (last weekend was jam-packed).
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PS, if you like animals, beautifully photographed rural landscapes (both he and his wife are also photographers), check out the farm blog above. I followed it years ago, sort of forgot about it, but then rediscovered it early this year.
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😦 😦 😦 This week I took my lawn mower to a new place that just opened here last fall. While mowing today I hit thick grass a few times that stopped the mower. I couldn’t pull the cord to restart it so I flipped it on its side (push mower) and had a hard time turning the blade. I got it restarted and went on, this happening two or three more times. Finally I checked the oil. It wasn’t even touching the dip stick! I hadn’t bothered to check since it had supposedly just been changed. So I looked some more and it doesn’t seem they sharpened the blade. I wonder if they even tuned it up since it doesn’t start easily when it dies.
😦 Not only that, but sometime in the winter the spout for my gas can broke off.
🙂 Only 5 more weeks of school!
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😦 that reminds me, my Jeep is overdue for service. My dogs are overdue for service (shots), too.
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🙂 No snow (so far) today
🙂 A little warmer than yesterday and should soon be even warmer
🙂 Sandhill cranes performing their mating dance in the field at the bottom of our acreage – husband has gone to try and get some good pictures
😦 Still nothing concrete from our daughter
🙂 She is in God’s hands
😦 Said goodbye to our young staff member yesterday – she wants to be working outside during the summer – she was a great young lady and I am going to miss her.
😦 Had to interview a whole swank of applicants this week to select the few who will then be interviewed by the boss – only a couple seemed right for our office.
😦 Husband is off to Ottawa for the week on Monday.
🙂 I can rearrange the house while he is gone 🙂
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Kare, my husband will be gone overnight one night in a few days, our first night apart since we married. I decided it’s my chance to make split pea soup (the first since we married). He can’t stand peas, even the smell, so the summer before we married I made it several times, but not since then (almost three years). I’ve bought the canned stuff a couple of times, but realize I’ve been spoiled by making it myself–the canned stuff just doesn’t taste very good. So I’ll make it and freeze some and have myself a treat!
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We had a wonderful lunch with the REAL AJ, his lovely wife, Cheryl, and their sweet daughter, Elizabeth (“don’t call her Liz”). He is real and he is real nice. 🙂
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That is wonderful, Linda!
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Cheryl, can I come over for some split pea soup?
I haven’t had any homemade split pea soup in years.
😉
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Oooh, Cheryl, good idea. Only I will have sauerkraut. Husband cannot stand the smell, but I love it!
Linda, glad you had a wonderful lunch with real people 🙂
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Elizabeth is such a lovely name. (It’s my middle name, & I’ve often wished it was my first name.) I’m glad she doesn’t shorten it to Liz.
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Elizabeth seems to be an ideal middle name.
One of my granddaughters and a great-grand has Elizabeth for a middle name.
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🙂 Bald eagle flying around our place this morning – hope the cat stayed hidden
🙂 Saw a hooded merganser on the way home from church – very rare around here.
🙂 Also saw: 3 trumpeter swans, many Canada geese, 1 great blue heron, many robins, several mallards… I guess spring is here!
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🙂 My Aunt Janet & Uncle Bill are visiting Florida, celebrating their 69th wedding anniversary. 🙂
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