Leaving aside the national and international news, this has been a bad week for me personally ( Read more... )

So, there have been several fires in the area lately ( Read more... )

Yesterday, it snowed. And we had freezing drizzle with it. *sigh* Luckily I take the idea of putting in supplies very seriously. SO I was prepared for it to be worse -- which may or may not happen as winter is far from over. But at least I have plenty of food for the furkids, and a nice stock of bottled water ( Read more... )

Today it was so nice out that I decided to stay home and do laundry. Well, more like took laundry to the laundromat and brought it home to dry on the line. But I got *four* loads done! AT once! And I have enough clean clothes to last more than a day or two now, lol! Seriously though, it had piled up -- and yes I was slack not doing it before but ( Read more... )

Today the city had its annual clean-up day and I had a whole lot of cut down trees and brush gotten rid of. Also a few odd bits of other stuff but mostly trees etc ( Read more... )

Ir's been a mixed sort-of week. It started out fairly quiet but then it got busy all at once. So anyway....
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Today I took LeeAnn to the vet so she could get her 3 mo. flea treatment, and she also gets a quick once over too: eye/ear/teeth check, listen to heart & breathing and the always enjoyable "taking her temp." Oy. Or to hear LeeAnn's version, I woke her from her nice relaxing nap and took her away from home to be tortured. ::eye roll:: But all was ( Read more... )

Well, I tried to get some yard work done yesterday and all that happened was that I got chewed to bits by mosquitoes. Ugh! I have bites all over; sprays seem to have no effect on them at all. So I spent most of the night trying to keep the itch down so I could sleep ( Read more... )

Guess what? I hear thunder... loud thunder. And it is *dark* outside. Yesterday it was very light until around 8 pm. Yes, there are storms in the area yet again. Big surprise, eh ( Read more... )

It's raining. *Again*. ::head desk:: My lawn is so long already and this is just going to make it grow even more, and faster! Yikes!! At least I have already made arrangements for a local farmer to bring in a shredder to knock it down because seriously, it must be a good 10-12" high already, which is much too high for most mowers, even a rider. Now ( Read more... )