I took the day off, planning to sort of loaf around and do a few things.
Instead, it turned into a wild, rushing kind of day. I meant to get up at my usual time, but didn't make it until 8:30, so I only had an hour to eat and dress and take the dogs out and look at my e-mail, which I still haven't got all read, and then I had to put on some nice clothes and some make-up to go get my hair cut at 10, and then I went out to Walmart to buy yarn for the baby clothes my friend commissioned and got back here around 11:30. A friend was supposed to come pick me up for lunch, but about quarter past 12 I called her, and she'd forgotten, so she got take-out and brought it over here. Then a handyman guy came over to plant a bunch of hostas for me. This one's name is Robert, he's a year younger than I am and he could talk the leg off a donkey, he's just as *nice* as he can be, and does good work. He didn't think he'd have time to get all the hostas planted, but he did. I'm going to have to go stake them, I think--the wind is really strong from the west and their stalks are going to break if I don't put up a stake and tie them gently with pieces of plastic bag. But I'm going to wait a while--I'm *hot*--and I didn't do anything except sit in the shade and say "There--why don't 'we' put that one there?" If it wasn't so windy it would be really hot. :-P
Oh, and did I tell you the roof is all fixed AND I have new gutters? I'm so thrilled about the gutters, but I'm going to have to get some new gutter screens. I asked the roofer guy, Jim (who's 62, and also really nice and competent, but much more laconic), what he thought about them when I saw him in the morning on my way to work yesterday and he said, "I've had people call and want them installed and then they call me the next year and have me take them off. You don't really want them." When I saw him at noon, he said, "You know those gutter screens? You have a LOT of trees around this house." *lol* No kidding. So I'll get some and have him put them on. I went around with a bucket and a trowel, because all the stuff that came out of the old gutters is primo compost! I collected as much of it as I could and piled it around the 3 roses that need the most help.
I may have to go back to Walmart--I've been wanting to get the pastels out of my asiatic lily bed, and they have a nice selection in the yellow/gold/orange/red range that I want, on sale for between $2.50 and $5.00. I don't like buying from Walmart, but sometimes this store has stuff that no one else in town has.
I plan to treat myself to ice cream and Hershey's syrup tonight. :)
It's weird--I'm 56 today. My parents both died just days before they turned 60. I know--at least I'm fairly sure--that I won't die in four years, but it's just--weird.
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Happy Birthday! Ice cream sounds good! Yeah for the new roof, and flower plant put in. There's lots going on at your place. It's really hot here too. 32C feeling like 38 with humidity right now, but there's a breeze now, that makes it bareable. Biko was swimming, Sam got hosed down, first he was annoyed, than he liked it. :o) I had hot water in my watering can, the pool water is still too cold for me.
It's weird looking at your birthday that way. I sure hope you'll make it longer than your parents. (O.K. don't know if that came out right.)
Once again, all the best on your special day!
Happy Birthday, Judi, just a day late! I hope you celebrated with something cold and creamy! Is that Oasis Ice Cream place still there on Calhoun St.?
The garden looks great! Mine still feels like someone else's! I still have not replaced that bittersweet vine with clematis, but that will be the first step in really making it mine.
That and killing all the poison ivy
>:-P
Thanks for the birthday wishes, ladies! The ice cream and chocolate syrup was just what I wanted. The dogs got some, too. :)
Have fun with the poison ivy, Jane. I got one of the spray-on poison ivy killers and that works pretty well if you're real persistent--like spray it every day. Or paint it on, if it's near something you want to keep. And think what fun you're going to have turning this into *your* garden!
I'm pretty sure the Oasis is long gone, but the Dairy Queen is still there. I haven't been there in ages--I really try to stay away from ice cream except for once or twice a year. If I ever surrendered to the ice cream urge, I'd weigh 400 pounds in no time. I usually allow myself two cartons of Hagen Daaz Dulce de Leche per year, so I'm a little ahead of my quota.
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