March 21, 2006

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  So Much Work Ahead…

  
  

  

  
  

  In response to my last entry she left this comment:

  
  

  “you paint such a beautiful picture with your words! Wow! I’ll bet your yard looks great!”

  
  

   

  
  

  Well, I wish.    Spring looks really great arriving in my yard (despite the chilly temperatures that let us know without a doubt that it is still March) but the yard itself needs a LOT of work.  There are loads and loads of limbs and sticks all over the place, and lots of other things that got blown around in all the windstorms we have had this winter.  Some of the downspouts got blown off the house and the creek is full of debris.  Most of the plants in the beds and the lawn are still dead, dead, dead looking brown.  The birdfeeders and birdbaths need cleaning and filling, and all the outdoor furniture and stuff is still put away. The snowplow scraped the stones up in our driveway leaving bare patches and throwing some of them on the lawn.  There are still lots of dead weeds in some of the beds that didn’t get pulled before winter, and one of our rhododendrons didn’t make it through this winter. Even our mailbox got broken over the winter!

  
  

   

  
  

  So as soon as the weather warms up just a little bit more, I have to start cleaning things up and getting the yard in shape. Problem is, I am out of shape too. It is going to take a while before I will be back up to speed physically and able to handle much of the work.  I just have to keep reminding myself to pace myself.

  
  

   

  
  

  Meanwhile, I am doing some spring cleaning in the house. Still trying to figure out how to organize my bedroom closet and stuff to fit all my clothes in, and paring down my wardrobe as well. I think I really need to get another small dresser or somehting. I have the 4 drawers from my old waterbed down in the basement (I scrapped the waterbed last fall, it was so damaged from flooding, but salvaged the drawers) so I think perhaps I will try to build something around them later in the spring. They should fit nicely in one of the open spots against my bedroom wall.

  
  

   

  
  

  Well, while I was visiting her site I decided to hijack this little quizzie – feel free to re-appropriate it youself if you would like — and let me know your answers!!:

  
  

   

  
  

  Fill In The Blank.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  ____ takes my breath away.

  
  

  When I was a kid, my favorite toy was a ____.

  
  

  I like to ____ when there is a blackout.

  
  

  ____ is probably the most ignorant person on earth.

  
  

  The key to having a successful relationship is ____.

  
  

  I have never ____, and I probably never will.

  
  

  ____ sucks.

  
  

  The thing I look at first on a person is ____.

  
  

  I think I want ____ for dinner tonight.

  
  

  ____ makes me feel weak

  
  

  My favorite artist is ____.

  
  

  I miss ____ so much!

  
  

  ____ is the best thing to do for a hangover.

  
  

  Red, gold and ____.

  
  

  my answers:

  
  

  the March wind, troll doll, sleep, (too many candidates to choose just one), compromise, gone skiing, getting old, the whole picture, Indian Food, my arthritis, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, my brother Skip. to quit drinking, green

  
  

  

  
  

   

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