New week New month Good Morning

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New week New month Good Morning
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Mon, 06-02-2003 - 8:22am
Another month gone. Wow it feels as if summer is nearly over and it hasn't even begun. We had such a busy weekend. Saturday DH was off so after our volunteer work we began cleaning out the 3 winter tanks we use for the fish. Big job! The people buying the house asked us to leave them with the house. Then we started working on the Andrews 2 rooms. What a mess the boy had down there. He is such a collector. One of the rooms was decorated in license plates from several states and various hubcaps he has picked up off the roads and car posters. It sounds awful but actually for a teenaged boys room it was kind of appropriate. The other room he decorated with his clothes mostly. I am boxing up most of his stuff for storage as he won't be able to use them at the new house and he doesn't want to part with them. He has 2 old fashioned milk cans in there that are old and ugly but have sentimental value as one is from the farm I grew up on and the other from the farm where DH grew up. Obviously we have had them since before he was born. Don't know what we will do with them now. Maybe I can incorporate them into my landscape.

You all would have been laughing at me. I was taking a little break and sitting our watching my fish when I noticed a bag of stuff I am trying that says it keeps algae from forming in ponds was no longer sitting unobtrusively on the bottom but floating on top. I decided to anchor it to the bottom of the pond with a rock as it is anything but pretty. I have a stepping stone near the edge of the pond that is just barely submerged. It is very stable and will hold my weight with out moving if I need to step into the pond for any reason. So I stepped out on it, hunkered down and leaned forward to put the media bag where I wanted it and very slowly I could feel the rock tipping. With nothing to grab hold of, in slow motion I fell face first into my pond just like a kid. My pond is only about 2 feet deep at it's deepest but that was enough to dunk me head to toe. I bet the fish were more surprised than I was. It was laughable but I made such a mess of my beautiful pond. Tipped over a lilly and the stuff in the bag came oozing out and got all over the pond. Yuck.

On Sunday after meeting I made lunch and DH had to work so I attended to the housework I had left go the last 2 days and finished creating and printing the invitations for Drew's graduation party on the 28th. Turned out nice if I do say so myself. I used postcards, printing a picture of him on the day he launched his boat on the front and the party info and a his senior picture on the back. After supper DH and I hooked up our flat bed trailer and went to pick up a privacy fence we had bought for the new house and after unloading it there we picked up our lawn tractor from one DD's house and delivered it to the other's. Of course we got lots of grand naughties good night hugs and kisses as an added bonus. It was after 10 by the time we got home so I went straight to bed.

On Friday evening DH showed a home to the young couple in our rental, they loved it and their offer is accepted so they will be moving out July 1st. Which gives us time to paint and move in before August 1st. They are such nice kids even helped us unload all that heavy fencing. So it looks like the Contraryville move will go as planned all supposing the buyers for our house perform. So that was our weekend. Busy busy busy. We are hoping to have crossed more off our list of to dos each day. Today I have phone calls to make and maybe some work in the garage. I will also have little Belly for a couple of hours. Addressing and mailing the invitations is high on the list this week as well.

That is most of the news from Contraryville. They never caught the perpetrater of the crime spree and live is pretty much back to normal here. Wonder where he will show up next?

Hope all the bugs have a wonderful month a wonderful week and of course a wonderful day.

Queen Water Lilly Who Falls in Her Pond.

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Mon, 06-02-2003 - 9:06am
There she goes..ker plunk!! LOL!! Sorry if that made me laugh, but I wish we could've been there to see it all happening MM. Glad you didn't get hurt in the process. I will have a hard time picturing you living in another home come this August, but happy for you that everything's coming together nicely.

I think there are more hours in your day than in mine. It's amazing how much you can fit into a day!!

Sorry they didn't catch the bad guy, scary knowing he's still out there waiting to do harm to his next victims.

Take care dear friend, take a break now and then, and have a good day...Susie

Hugs,

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Mon, 06-02-2003 - 9:17am
Good Morning, Mary...good to hear that you know where you will be living come Aug. What a job you have from now to then. So many of our Bugs are moving this spring and summper. I hate to think of having to move...there is so much stuff here and of course most of it could be chucked as we don't use it.

Enjoy your day...

Pab

Pab

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Mon, 06-02-2003 - 11:14am
Wow, MM...I have missed alot! You are moving! Must be hard to leave your gardens as well (surely you can scoop up a few to start a new garden ...or is there already a good one there?) A friend down the street just moved and was told she could move up to 50% of her flowers...well, she filled two U-haul trucks!! That is not even 50% either! Do take care... Franni

 

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Mon, 06-02-2003 - 4:35pm
Hi Franny Yep we are moving on. The yard at the new house is a clean slate. Not a thing growing except grass & weeds. I have a plan in mind for what I will do and there will be a pond or 2. I think the fun is in the doing so I will have lots to do. We are planning to make the ponds bigger but keep the rest of the garden and landscapping smaller and more managable. I envision an English garden type setting. I intend to profit from the mistakes I made here. Now I know which plant needs a lot of room or which ones die back every year and need pruning and I won't bother with those. We will be moving into a 3 bedroom twin home that we own as a rental now. So we will have no basement and not storage. Means getting rid of a lot of stuff. It will be hard but I think we will be better off in the long run. We always accumulate so much stuff. Have a great day dear Franny. MM