For Today...

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FOR TODAY

Outside my window... lovely and warm, a perfect summer day.

I am thinking...Tuesday already.

I am thankful...for the relief the chiropractor has given me.

In the kitchen...pork chops

I am wearing...shorts and t shirt

I am creating...quite a disaster

I am going...to get some new pond plants

I am wondering...isn't Mother Nature wonderful

I am reading...still struggling The Stand

I am hoping...it'll be cool tonight so I can get back out to the pond.

I am looking forward to...my chiropractor visits.

I am learning to stand back and let my husband do it!

It's a dirty job.

Around the house...We woke up to our pond being drained, sometimes happens when an animal gets to jumping around the pump and somehow moves the hose, or picks the hose up and doesn't put it back where it is suppose to be.Racoons like to take a drink that way.  So we took this opportunity to "clean" the pond.  Boy were there a lot of roots.  4 huge bags of roots.  And what a lot of pond scum.  So Handy Andy  did it!  Can't believe I actually heard him say," wait let me clean that up" Now of course we are back at the beginning , no plants, the fish will be lonely. 

the tale end of things

I am pondering...wonder what will still be available in the nursery

A favorite quote for today...If you treat your wife like a prize stallion, she's less likely to become a nag.

One of my favorite things...afternoon with my favorite boys.

A few plans for the rest of the week:I presume my week will entail reassembly of the yard around the pond.

A peek into my day...

Before

After, looks like we should be going the other way.  Such is life.  Every time we do this I make it smaller.  Next time we'll be filling it in.  It was a project our eldest took on and stuck us with maintenance. Oh the joys of parenting.

Don't sweat the small stuff... what does that mean?

I've undertaken quite a number of challenges this past year, both in my reading and in my home life.  I can tell you now I don't think I'm going to meet my goals any time soon.  So this afternoon when I sat down to have my lunch time tea, and write my post (I was brain dead during my morning coffee) I still had a very dry spell.  I hit that saving button on "Imagination Prompt Generator". Don't sweat the small stuff...what does that mean? was the prompt.  Well, I do sweat the small stuff.  Like, I just painted that freaking front door and there are fingerprints on it.  Do I need to do an inservice?  They're cancelling my favourite day time drama, what am I going to do on Monday between 2 and 3.  My hairdresser quit her job and left no forwarding address! Shall I go on.  And then I sat down and thought about it all,  these are such small matters,  I have two friends who are dealing with parents with "SERIOUS" health issues, I'm sure their Mondays between 2-3 are not on their minds. 

snails in my pond are another one of those small things I sweat, they eat the roots of my waterlillies,

We've all been preparing ourselves for the possible devastation on IRENE (not me the storm) and thankfully it was not nearly as bad as had been anticipated.  I guess it wouldn't matter if I had fingerprints on my front door, it that front door  wound up under 20 feet of water.  And I've decided that I would better meet my commitments if I used that hour on Monday to take a nap.  I never really sleep well.  So the next time I think "O crap, who left that pile of laundry where I didn't see it, and now I've finished washing for the week" I'll try to remember this is the small stuff there are bigger worries in the world, even if I'm blessed not to have them right now. Hope all of you who have been affected by IRENE are safe and dry and you find your front door dry and with or without fingerprints, that would mean all those entering are o.k. enough to leave them there.

mellow yellow monday..

Welcome to my garden. We haven't had a great deal of rain in the last couple of weeks, so the pond keeps drying up. I've even had my first Racoon eating my fish, because of it, so we must be vigilant in topping it up each day. Well the price of pleasure I suppose. Enjoy Mellow Yellow Monday