hello from the rain day...

we had rain and dark skies most of the day...

which means we don't have to water for a couple of days...

we are getting tomatoes now and waiting for the next batch of green beans...

so what do you do when it rains?

you play...

(after you get the house work done, of course...)

just some moving things around on the desk kind of a day...

where do you store your clips and clothes pins?

lamp shade?

an original swanky swig...

with black stars...

the only one I have kept that had a design on it...

don't I look like a pint sized gardener?

even back then...

does anyone else get these in the mail?

I have gotten them for a year and half to two years...

free...

I did not pay for them and no one else paid for them...

they send them free...

I used to get them...

got about 4 issues and called them up and told them to save their postage...

they weren't worth bringing home from the post office...

I told them to cancel my subscription...

truth:

they are 99% ads...

yep- under 10 pages of something actually not an ad...

there is nothing that's really my style at all...

mostly modern...

I don't do recipes...

(I make up my own stuff as I go)

so, took me a whole whopping 10 minutes the thumb through all of these...

my suggestion is to start in the back...

the covers are pretty but that's about all it has going for it...

well, there you have it...

my day in a nutshell...

:O)

tonight is pizza night...

Dominos...

haven't had them for a few months...

DH has been talking about getting them for a couple weeks now...

withdrawl?

surely not...

:O)

come back soon!

have good days...

I have been sore from the last couple of weeks...

so we kind of took it easy on me this weekend...

but I did get a few photos...

my attempt at disguising the christmas tree in the play room...

found this little night light while cleaning the shelf in the laundry...

hid in a box way up high...

this is after and before this afternoon...

this is after this afternoon...

reorganizing...

this is a work in progress...

redoing the paper on the drawers...

like this better than the old stuff...

left over tubs!

and great news!

cooler weather is coming!

I am ready...

maybe we can even open some windows!

hope your weekend was a fun one!

prayers for great things this week for all of you!

it is finished...

9 bags gone...

(kitchen garbage bags)

several boxes...

found some things that had been missing...

glad its over in there...

got the kitchen paint dug out...

that is coming up soon...

its been 3 years. I think...

need to finish...

kids are here camped out in the yard...

photos coming later...

have a good day!

this chick is shot...

need a nap...

another day in the war zone...

a rooster to wake me up...

but this is what really works...

a nice hot pot of tea in the mornings...

butternut squash blooms and morning glories...

DH and I went out to to pull the green beans and they were loaded with blooms again...

so no replanting them yet...

we pulled weeds and the morning glories out and picked a few cherry tomatoes...

its amazing what you find when  you clean and purge...

Lester and Charlie...

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and this one I want to frame...

he's so cute...

2 more bags left yesterday and there's one more in the hallway from this morning for DH to haul out when he gets home...

Craig is off tomorrow to help with the next few totes- too big for me to be dragging around...

pretty darn sore and had a terrible time yesterday...

I was done by 9am, and then it all hit like a ton of bricks...

but doing better today...

trying not to over do it...

but its hard when you get going on something...

I am running into so called projects that never got done...

things I bought at garage sales and will never use...

had good intentions at the time, but I ain't no spring chicken anymore...

and some of these ideas are no longer in...

been asking myself these questions as I sort...

am I really going to do this?

nope...

did I miss this?

nope...

will I miss it?

will the world come to an end if I let it go?

nope...

and before ya know it, another bag is full...

ta da...

its that easy...

just keep me home and away from the clearance isles...

and we will be ok...

Susie- glad you keep coming back and hope things are going for good for you guys...

it does feel good when another bag goes out the door!

have a blessed day...

It's so much cooler...

we are at 75 right now...

nice day and so cloudy...

we have had 4 good showers since noon yesterday...

about to head in and take a nap before the guys start coming home...

and supper has to be cooked and all that fun stuff...

but I did want you to know that a full bag if stuff went out of the play room/storage room yesterday and another went out today...

that's 5 now...

and I am not done...

just watch a couple of those hoarders videos on youtube and it will scare the socks off of ya...

its not happening here...

my grandmother made a clean sweep when she hit 70...

the thought of someone going through her crap stuff didn't sit well with her...

there wasn't much left for us to do when she died...

except the butter tubs and the unused return envelopes that came with all her utility bills...

why she ever saved those is beyond me...

so if you need motivation...

just look at something and ask yourself...

do I want someone else finding this when I am gone?

or worse yet...

while you're still alive and someone has to come in to take care of you...

and you have to answer their questions about certain things...

yeah- its not pretty when you put it that way...

I really don't have a hoarding problem...

my problem is that I underestimate the size of my house...

yep, that's my story...

sticking to it...

:O)

have good days...