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on 4/23/25 10:38 am
How nice your DH helps with the cleaning! Kirby just steals my rags.
Busy day ahead, but I am showered and ready for it. I was just thinking, how will the guy get a ladder to the window shade? 13ft in the air with an extremely heavy 11 ft sectional in the way. He can problem solve it...
Operation Move On Bird seemed to work well last night. No sign of it pushing the spikes off the rock. And I left the ceiling fan under the overhang on the lowest setting as that's its second favorite place to sleep and poop. I'm sure it will find another spot I will have to address, but for the moment I am reveling in this minor success.
I'm really happy with the color of the new sun umbrellas. It's a green the color of the natural trees out here, so they really disappear. I got some pillows for the new lounge chairs in the same fabric. Fingers crossed the new furniture is nice. It's so scary ordering online when you haven't seen it in person or sat in it. I'm hoping for not too big, not too small, not too low... Goldilocks.
I think I'll go unpack a new hose I bought and a new hose storage box. All my hoses which are supposed to be highly rated have melted in the elements. Your hands come away sticky when you touch them and the sticky is hard to wash off. Yuck. I also ordered new faucet handles for outside because those have melted and are nastily sticky too. What do people in Phoenix do where it's 10-15 degrees hotter?
Anyway, have good days everyone!
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Yesterday was pretty relaxing after the busy Monday. Our gorgeous weather is still holding with a high over Florida keeping away the rain. Which of course now means we are on the edge of drought conditions. I have no doubt that will change over the summer. Justice was happy to have both a long morning walk as well as an after dinner walk.
Today is laundry, water aerobics, dusting, and kitchen cleaning. DH does the floors tomorrow to complete the cleaning cycle. Someday we will need a housekeeper here but we are okay for now.
DH has his last golf association day followed by a dinner inside the clubhouse. A bunch of the wives are going to the wine social dinner on the patio of the clubhouse. So no cooking!
Have a winning Wednesday!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
You aren't kidding about manual labor! You got a lot done. Lot of work to get a home to the point where you can relax and enjoy it ****il the next project).
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
on 4/22/25 5:53 pm
Manual labor day! My hands and feet are cramping! Drinking some electrolytes.
I planted my pot plants and replaced the irrigation doohickeys in them so they get more water. Then I used my new stirrup hoe to go after the second round of weeds in all the beds. Next up was cleaning up all the gardening stuff in the backyard in preparation for my new furniture tomorrow and using the blower to get all the dust, dog hair, leaves, and rocks off the patio. I put two new patio umbrellas together. And then I cleaned the bird poop off a deep window ledge and the rock wall in the outdoor kitchen. Birds like to sleep on one of the rocks at the top that has a little ledge. It's gross. So I scrubbed and rinsed and scrubbed and rinsed (and washed the patio table that's headed to the roof deck while I was at it). I got some bird spikes from Amazon that I need to stick up there when it dries. And now I sit and cramp... I'm so hoping I can pay the delivery guys to take my heavy old stuff upstairs. Otherwise, I guess I can put it all off to the side and ask the landscape guys if they would like the extra work. No chance I can do it.
Tomorrow will be busy - the window shade guy is coming, I need to tidy before then and before the RH guys also bring my new family room table with the outdoor stuff late afternoon. And I have an open HOA board meeting (cramping fingers and toes crossed "she" doesn't show up to make trouble). Then I shall crash!
Take care and hope you all had a good day!
Clotheslines were pretty great. My drying rack in the tub is my substitute such as it is...
I too don't like too much in a day. Some people here seem to be trying to recreate work time with bookings all day, every day. No thanks!
Fun that your law school friend is coming. I bet she will love it there.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I actually meant May (since we are near the end of April), LOL. May rains a lot on Cape Cod - we can't plant flowers until Memorial weekend or the week after.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
It doesn't start getting nice until May and even then it is iffy
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
DH and I were just reminiscing about clothes lines. My parents still had one at their Florida house and I loved sleeping on sheets that were air and sun dried. My Mom still has one at her house. Back when she was mobile, she dried the sheets outside during the summer. The sundried sheets mixed with the scent of the breeze off the lake at night were so lovely.
Greetings all
Yet another sunny day here. I drove past the bay to Scabble and it was so smooth. Windy now. I got killed at Scrabble. The Shark is getting better and better and I am not. Boo Hoo. Still looking for the lost glasses. I am pretty sure they are at the gym and will eventually surface. After that I stopped at the studio and forced myself to do a certain amount of glazing. More to do tomorrow. At least our studio board meeting got cancelled so one less thing.
Liz you did a lot in one day. Glad the gloomy painting is leaving. Three things is a big day for me. Tomorrow is house cleaning and a must do gym visit.
DD if I were you I would not worry about the gym until you make your escape. Then there will be time. Also for more dress shopping. And yay for mammogram result. Remember when they sent a letter in the mail?
Paula you are busy too. Kudos on getting lots done.
Got a message yesterday that one of my best friends from law school will come visit this summer. She has never been here and plans to drive from Wyoming and see someone else in Boise. She loves road trips but I must make sure she understands how rural the roads are here and how some stuff is not on GPS maps. We are that backward. No direct routes. But it will be fun.
I assigned DH the task of washing the bathroom rugs since they looked similar to the dog disco floor in the shower. Too heavy to put in our old dryer so they are on the deck. Anyone remember having a clothesline?
Well back to the eyedrops relays Hamburgers for dinner tonight.
Diane S
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Yay for great mammogram results! Good luck dress shopping!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
