Crazy Busy or Crazy AND Busy?

 Crazy Busy or Crazy AND Busy?

 

Cleaned some things up in my closet while looking for some curtains that came to my memory. Think that they may have been given away. ANYhow, ordered some long curtains to go in the big bathroom and put a longer curtain on the window on the east side of the room. My hope is that the longer curtains will keep some of the cold air out. May get a small rug later, but that thought is for another day. DID, however, order a boot cleaner brush thingy from Walmart. It fastens to the deck floor outside so that an old woman can hold on to the railing around the deck and clean my shoes of hen shtuff before going inside. Can’t imagine how farmers’ wives used to keep their floors clean! And if she had a houseful of young’uns, she was set to sweep every day at least twice a day! Milking time, ya know!

 

Then decided to use the hardware outside that used to keep curtains up out on the deck. Before the crepe myrtle and dwarf plum were planted, the west sun just about baked the deck every afternoon. Now it is fairly decent even when the wind is hot. Doesn’t take much for a tree to prove its value!

 

Have not raked up the pieces of plastic from all over the middle coop floor. Boy! That hail did a number on that top! No wonder—even not considering the NOISE—that the hens could not stay on that roost! The holes show that they would have been hit pretty hard had they stayed on that roost. Poor critters! Eventually the work will begin on getting them to stay in the front coop. Soon, but not tonight. Maybe next week or so. Some folks just get awfully lazy.

 

Saw on FB that Stephen is coming home tomorrow. Then, he said, the real work will come with hard physical therapy. Do not envy any trips to work on core or any other kind of strength! Did not really feel that it was useful to me, but maybe that was because my attitude was not great. Figures.

 

Fed the last of the “homemade” dog food this morning and either the Post Office or one of the services delivered both dry food and 24 cans of wet food. Thompson just came over to ask for a treat. My dogs are not the least bit spoiled!

 

Went out and cleaned the water bowls for the hens this morning and put the big bowl on the shelf where the girls could reach it but not get it nasty. Only cows, pigs, and children are as messy as these hens!

 

Made a kind of salad out of bell peppers, mushrooms, and one avocado. With a coating of Italian dressing, that was not bad at all. Also spent some time rearranging stuff in my “pantry.” Found another container of Yuban that had worked its way to the back of the shelf. SO happy to see that. Coffee is getting just a wee bit pricey. But what else is new. Actually, the order for the curtains and stuff from Walmart made me fairly happy. It is not like Target has this stuff—or does it? You know, some of us might be wise to look around, but Target was the source of the only time my credit card information was abused. Once bit, ya know.

 

Have another book started. Ohhh! It has been good so far. And it has made me laugh a couple of times. It contains the dialogue from a couple of snarky teenagers. Oh, memories! Smiling and laughing. Lewis did not really put up with snarky or otherwise disrespectful remarks. But you KNOW that is how teens think! Sometimes they think that they are grown before they have a clue.

 

Oh dear. A S-Q-U-I-R-R-E-L is outside. Nope, it has been seen now! It will soon be shaken to pieces in the minds of at least two dogs! But we know just how they feel—even if our enemies do not include anything any more likely to cause us trouble than a flat tire or a really deep pot hole!

 

Still not looking for news anywhere since truth(?) and the media don’t exactly prove enlightening or encouraging. We know that eventually things will work out in God’s plan, so meanwhile we can do our best to be kind and loving toward others. We can thank God each day for the blessings of life and His mercy. We can ask for healing—for all.

 

Rest and Be Grateful. You are loved.