We’re celebrating Dear Husband’s birthday tonight. His birthday was actually October 26, but it’s difficult to gather the children and grandchildren, so we celebrate on whatever day we can all gather.
As far as we are concerned, birthdays are lovely reasons to get together with family. We made a trip to Indiana last week, and celebrated three of the October birthdays. Frankie, my youngest sister, has been kind enough to host us each October, and we celebrated my birthday, her youngest daughter’s birthday, and DH’s birthday. She asked each of us what would be our favorite celebration dessert. I love carrot cake, my niece loves the dark chocolate cake her family makes, and DH loves cream pies. Frankie arranged to have all three of the desserts, including coconut cream pie for DH! I have never been invited to a place where there was so much dessert offered! lol To make matters worse, DH picked up a red raspberry pie and turnovers at the bakery to take as a bread and butter gift! It was rainy and chilly, but it gave us good reason to stay inside and visit. We watched “Monsters, Inc.” on Friday night, and “The Perfect Storm” on Saturday. I have a brand new (unopened) copy of “The Perfect Storm” for sale if anyone would like it…… Thank you, Frankie, for such a wonderful weekend!
Tonight….we do Italian with the bambinos. I expect to hear tales of trick-or-treating, and candy piled ten feet high! What a lovely end to a lovely day!
Daily Archives: November 1, 2009
I Feel GREAAATTTT!!
Well, actually….I hurt like hell, but I’m delighted to have accomplished so very much today!
I started out early this morning trimming and pulling spent plants from the gardens leading to our front door. There’s a lot of work to do there to put the gardens to bed for the winter, and it was so nice today that I just kept working my way down the walk. Dear Husband came out about an hour later and started blowing the leaves into piles. I took a break and went back to it, and then we both stopped to have a sandwich.
After lunch, my stepson joined me in the gardens. We cut down the peonies and purple coneflower in the driveway gardens, and pulled the metal plant supports. He raked up the spent plants while I finished cutting down daylilies.
One of the big projects for today was to reorganize the garage for better storage, and cleaning the garage floor before we close up for winter. My stepson has recently purchased a motorcycle, and we’ve had to figure out how to squeeze everything in. I have eight pots of plants that I winter over in the unheated garage, set on a stack of styrofoam insullation. We reorganized garden equipment storage, and the recycling bins. Some things were thrown out, while others went down into the basement.
On paper it doesn’t sound like a lot, but it was six hours of constant work, and it clears the way for us to settle in for the winter. I’m just SO pleased that we got so much done. I still have a short list of things to do, but with Frankie’s help on the herb garden, and what we accomplished today, I can go into the holidays knowing that the grounds look tidy.
I need to have Dear Husband pick up a couple of bales of straw for me. I want to cover the ferns and daylilies. I need a couple of bags of compost. We covered peonies with dirt today. I’d like to top that off with compost to give them some organic food next spring.
So, this has been another of those “A day in the life of….” posts, but I can tell you that I FEEL GREAT!!! YEA! What a nice way to start November!