Good day my friend and wishing you a very happy weekend to enjoy. Prayers the severe storms have spared you from the severe damage that has occurred in some areas. Stay safe and have a great new week.....George
Oh to have this much energy again! We really wanted to trim some trees today; however, the ground is sooooo wet that the ladder would sink to the center of the earth. Instead...
I'll give you a Big Friday Hug! And I will send lots of Blessings your way because your friendship always puts a smile on my face and is a blessing to me.
Now I'm heading outside to see what I can get into because staying inside and paying bills just seems like no fun when the sun is shining brightly on my orchids.
So a man shows up, Johnny, with a huge machine, a stump grinder. After it was unloaded, it only took between 15-25 minutes and the stump was mulch, dirt and all.
So now that this job is finished, I guess you know where the bodies are hidden. We still have 3 or 4 Juniper trees to trim and a large crepe myrtle to trim. Our work is never completely done.
But the timing couldn't have been better. Rain started yesterday evening. Then last night we had 3 different thunderstorms come through at midnight, 1 am and 3 am. We ended up Monday evening with 1" and this morning with 2". Once again, we were blessed as others in the DFW area, Dallas - Ft. Worth, had tornado sirens go off and some got hail from pea size to golf ball size and larger.
Showers bring flowers! The BlueBonnets are starting to "pop". The sun came out earlier but we now have big, white, puffy clouds everywhere. Looking forward to the upper 70's for a couple of days. Can't wait to hear what you have been doing!
Well, as you can tell the tree is completely cut down. And the good news is our roofer took all the twigs and logs on Saturday to his mom's place because she likes to burn wood in her fire pit. Then around lunch time today our fence guy hauled off all the green stuff for a small price. Now on Wednesday, depending on rain, we found someone to come and use a stump grinder to finish the only thing left.
I just love all the light that comes in my window where my 12 orchids and 3 Christmas cactus are sitting. It makes such a difference in the yard too. I am constantly planting trees as they pop up in the flower beds to the yard and I really have too many so this was a true blessing.
I'm wishing you blessings for the rest of this week. It looks like we are going to get rain and storms this evening and more on Wednesday. I am working Wednesday so I don't mind so much.
Hope you enjoy it. We got it completely cut up in 8-1/2 hours. Only thing left is the stump. We have someone hopefully coming today to pick up wood and twig piles. Then there are the 18 green piles that either we haul off or pay someone to haul off. We are blessed to have friends that came over and helped the last 1-1/2 hours. Now, the stump.
Please remember for both links, you can click on the first photo and view each by scrolling through them (some will be LIVE and show action and some will be videos). I have to go get busy now. Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back soon. Just got word that both are heading here today for piles. Yipee Yahoo! You are in my prayers!
Guess what we are doing? Yes, cutting up this big tree. Anyone need firewood or wood for furniture? What a huge undertaking it is now. However, 30-40 years ago, it would have taken 2 days and been fun!
Who knew that Spring Cleaning would involve being outdoors chopping up a Juniper tree? Now if you have nothing better to do, come on over! hehehe
Actually, we have friends that were scheduled to come over tomorrow to celebrate everyone Anniversary. We are going to Salt Grass for early dinner. They are all coming with chainsaws now. And with Blessings all around us, we hope someone will need wood and haul it off for us as we have no bulk pickup in our city of Fate.
So... I am starting the weekend now because it may be a day or two before I get back here. Hopefully with different pictures from our backyard. Blessings & Hugs and yes, I am still looking for that fairy to help. Lee, I am praying for you and your health problems.
Blessings upon Blessings this day and every day! My kids are having so much fun at the beach.
At 5:30 this morning we had thunder and lightning but not for long. Just enough for the dog to be upset. We, as usual, lost electricity for about 30 minutes. Hubby even thinks he heard hail for a couple of minutes. Storms were moving very quickly and were gone in about 20 minutes but left 1/2" of rain. Finally got coffee made so all is right in our home. 6 dogs & hubby are napping now.
You know what they say in Texas (and everywhere for that matter)... if you don't like the weather... freezing, raining, winds blowing, hot sun, storms... just wait and it will change in the blink of an eye!
When my cactus blooms at Christmas, it is a Christmas cactus. When it blooms at Easter, it is an Easter cactus. And yes, mine usually blooms at Christmas and Easter and even at odd times throughout the year.
Now back to laundry, lunch and various other "fun" chores. Just grateful I can do them even if it takes longer than it use to for me. Now where is that fairy?
My girls, the animal whisperer and the track star, are on spring break vacation this week. Wayne called earlier today but we couldn't FaceTime when he called. Hopefully I will get pictures of the Florida beach soon. Even though we have beautiful sunshine today and they have rain.
I told you we were keeping the granddogs. So here is the cocker/poodle, Cami, and the 3 pound ruler of all dogs, Lily, aka "the little shit". She loves biting at ankles and keeping guard at the doggy door to NOT let anyone back inside.
I also told you spring flowers are popping up and here is proof. The beautiful sunshine and right at 70 degree weather will surely bring out more soon. I did notice that some of the rose bushes were putting out new growth from the bottom. Sure hope you are off to a tremendous week.
My girls are on Spring Break this week. So the family came by and dropped off our granddogs, Cami and Lily. Now we have 6 dogs living here. They are headed to Pensacola, Florida.
We were cloudy, overcast and drizzled most of the day. We still have clouds east of Dallas but west of Dallas is blue sky and the sun is shining bright! So we watched the Longhorns win another baseball game against South Carolina. I sure like that we have a couple more hours before it begins to get dark. Yesterday afternoon I changed all 16 of my manual clocks. Today I am replacing the rechargeable batteries in all 12 of my candles. They are set to come on every evening near dark and stay on for 6 hours.
I still am playing catch up at home from my 3 days of working. My computer room/office desk looks like a bomb went off. Good news however, our neighbor is gone on spring break too and we get to collect eggs all week. Woo Hoo! Sure hope you have a wonderful week ahead and share your smile with others!
I am so excited about Spring and moving all 18 of my clocks forward an hour. I love getting up before daylight and watching the sun rise (usually taking a picture of it). Isn't it amazing how we go from such cold temperatures and snow to horrid blowing winds and gray overcast skies to spring flowers popping up everywhere. I had a great time at work the past 3 days. But I sure missed you.
This morning I was on a zoom call with Faith Community Health. My friend is a Chaplain with Baylor Scott & White Hospital and she was hosting the call to teach us about calling on people who are home bound to cheer them up and check on them. I am excited to see if others want to do this too as it is all over the United States and Canada. And I already have a few people in mind to recommend that could benefit from having someone check on them. The training video that I did this morning is on the second Saturday of each month.
Then I went outside to help hubby cut back some of the plants in the yard. I will get pictures soon. But now I need to fix our meal of the day, whatever that will be, shower, and get ready for Longhorn baseball. We beat South Carolina who WAS undefeated last night. Hook 'em Horns!
A happy weekend to you and hope all is well. Sure liking our warm weather. Got a neighborhood kid to get all my leaves cleaned up as I get short of breath when I bend over after having part of both lungs removed a few years ago plus old age. Good kid and did a great job for me. Enjoy your weekend and be safe.....George
Good day to you my dear friend and wishing you a fabulous day to enjoy mid week. Warming to great springtime temps here and getting ready to get new plants after the hard freeze we had demolished many of ours. Stay safe and happy.....George
We are dreary, overcast, very windy, misty and just plain blah here today! I sure hope the sun is shining on you! Just four more days and I'll be setting my clocks forward before we go to bed. Spring forward and sun shining and setting later in the day is on the way.
I have been cleaning out my bathroom today. Do you know how many containers of powder I had? Way too many and I hate putting on makeup. Needless to say, I will be very glad to go to work for the next 3 days.
Please know that I will be wondering what all your are getting into while I am resting up at work. But
Sun is shining; temperatures are warming up; weekend was magnificent; and blessings are headed your way. We enjoyed our 41st anniversary by visiting with our granddaughters. They made a great lunch for us of pasta chicken salad and potstickers. Also got to watch Nicole teach Michelle about Shot-Put and Discus and show us her techniques.
I won't be here much this week, but I look forward to hearing from you and catching up with you when I have a minute or two.
I may have started with a spring in my step, but... 4 hour later there isn't any spring left. And we only worked in the front yard, the easy stuff. We cut back Crepe Myrtles, cleaned out some flower beds, trimmed rose bushes. Doesn't really look like much except for the trash bags waiting for pick up. There is so much dead stuff after our deep freeze. So now I guess you know what is next.
Gosh I hope you don't overdo the weekend with too much fun and end up like us!
