Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Learning to Dust

WOW!!!   I hate to dust and since our house is for sale again I feel I need to keep on top of it.  BUT...this evening I walked by a chair in the kitchen and saw how dirty the floor was under it and went to get the dust mop.    Then I noticed the rungs of that chair were totally COVERED in dust.   HMMMM???   Wonder how long it had been since that was dusted?    Being lazy by that time of day I used that silly dust mop to dust the chair and by golly I think I'm onto something.

I caught myself looking at a wooden rocker that Jim gave me a long time ago.   I really like that chair but it is really hard for me to get down and dust all the wooden places that make it work.   One of these days that dust mop and I are going to take a tour of the house.   

Monday, June 25, 2012

It's Been a Long Time

I have not blogged for ages.   It's been a busy year.

Spring was beautiful.   The garden spot was moved to the back yard and after adding some good old country manure the seeds grew quickly.

Lettuce, raddish, cucumbers, beans, and tomatoes.  Oh yes, this was going to be a year. And the flowers seemed to flourish in the early warm weather.   Some of them were more beautiful than I could ever remember.

Ah, but that soon ended.   We had 2 1/2 inches of rain Mother's Day week-end and less than 2" since.   We water our plants and finally gave up on the beans as the rabbits liked them too and were much quicker at getting out there than I was.   Now the birds like the tomatoes and so it's never ending.

Summer is definitely here.   And the disasters are mounting.   Wild fires, hurricanes, and draught.  

A nephew in Colorado Springs may loose his beautiful home.   They are safe though and have family they are staying with.   Goodness, so many loosing their homes and nothing they can do about it.

Life goes on it seems, no matter what happens and we learn to go on too.   Sometimes it hurts but the strong find a way to get back in the path of life.