April 1 & 2, 2016

The End of the Week

The Start of a New Month

April 1 & 2, 2016

Butterfly

 

Sometimes I feel like a broken or scratched record that plays the same thing over and over.  It it the start of a new month and that means I will be busy with accounting things.  It seems that my office computer works well until the start of a new month - when I need to send out statements to our customers.  Recently I have had a couple of little problems with the computer but Friday it decided to play an April Fool's joke on me.  At least I hope that is what it is and that Monday it will be fine (but I doubt it).

Ron was out of the office for several hours Friday and I was busy all morning, but the afternoon was very quiet.  If my computer had been working, I could have gotten everything done that I needed to do.  I did go to the bank late in the afternoon before we met our friends for supper at Carl's Jr. Hamburger place.  It was not very noisy and we had a nice visit with our friends.

Saturday morning I slept until 9:00 and then got up, had breakfast, and went out to work in the yard.  I was enlarging a flower bed.  I dug up about 1/2 of the area I wanted and then loosened the dirt in another bed that was already done, but had gotten hard.  Next I mowed the back yard and part of the section out by the water before I took a break and came in the house to relax.  I had spent 3 hours out there working and then went out for another 30 minutes or so before coming in to read for a bit.

 If you will look at the top half of the photo, it is almost solid

 with red-winged blackbirds in flight when something startled them.



I called Mom and told her I would pick her up at 4:30 to go get groceries.  Before I went, I finished the area out by the water so I could put the mower away.  Ron was working  in the yard taking out some bushes and trees.  Mom and I went to Wal-Mart and each got groceries and I get a few things for the yard - sprinklers and some zinnia seeds. 

It was 7:15 when I got home and unloaded my groceries.  I put away the cold things and then went back to working in the yard.  I finished enlarging the flower bed as well as a few more chores.  The yard is looking nice.

When I got it the house to stay, I put a ham in the oven and cooked some sweet potatoes and stripped the bed and sorted laundry.  Ron had done some laundry while I was gone.  He doesn't cook but he does do laundry.