Let The Fresh Air In

THANKFUL FOR THE FRESH AIR and the sound of chirping birds drifting into the house making this place more peaceful and relaxed.  The birds are singing gentle melodies that satisfy my soul.  So comforting.  It's a very soothing gentle sound.  Where I sit in the living room I can see outside through the French doors.  A nice place to be.


Grey skies moved in as we had a gentle SPRING RAIN to water nature.  Some of our Irises have bloomed.  More to follow.  I am looking forward to the blooms.  Makes me smile and my heart sing.  Glorious time of year.   Weeds need pulled from the flowerbeds.  I think if we were to do the weed pulling in March, we'd be ahead of the April growth.  This past March was interrupted by the sheltering at HOME and to be truthful, I did not want to go outside very badly.  So the weeds grew and I stayed inside.  There's HOPE and the weeds will be pulled one at a time.  



TUESDAY NEWSPAPER awaits me in the mail.  There will be little news.  Most of my information is coming from the internet.  A few new magazines need me to thumb through them and ooh and awe at how pretty someones garden is, or admire the beautiful tablescape.  Not to mention how delicious the recipe turned out.  How clever of so and so.  Handy tips and hacks for making life more affordable.  

TODAY PLANS.  I trimmed my hair about an inch.  A dry cut since my hair is so curly.  Brushing my mop into a backwards ponytail hanging over my eyes, I rubber banded it at my forehead.  Took the pony tail and rubber banded again toward the tip.  Found my tiny scissors and snipped the end off about an inch.  Wallah.  She is trimmed.

I will continue to file receipts and do some book keeping.  One of these sweet days, I will be able to say the paperwork is finished.  Just not today.  More laundry to do.  The little wash machine that I hook up to the kitchen faucet is working out fine.  One little pile of laundry at a time.  Wash then rinse.  Stop.  Pause.  Allow the spin to run for only a minute.  Then stop and begin to hang articles on hanger to air dry.  After the machine is empty, I turn the spin back on to empty the machine.  If I let the machine do an entire cycle of spinning the articles come out of the machine way too wrinkled and I don't want to add ironing to my errands at the time.  

Exercising is happening as I move more.  Deep breathing involved.  I need to increase the activity.  Still my feet hurt way too much to walk.  Doing what I can.  Eat a salad and drink some filtered water.  Keep moving.  Stay calm and keep moving.  Keep moving.

I can almost forget the pandemic.  Friday to come, I'll be reading that the cases have spiked in Minnesota, Michigan and Virgina as many communities begin to reopen their stores.  These three states were encouraged by our President to protest their democratic governors lock downs.  These are what are called SWING STATES and if there is a surge of coronavirus cases, then it will give way to our President saying these governors did not know what they were doing.  Which will encourage others to vote the governors out and vote republican.  I don't pay much attention to how politics works, but I figured this one out on my own.  In a week and a half, Kansas will have a spike and Colorado as well as they had rallies to protest the lock downs.  Kansas has a democratic governor.  Colorado?  A democrat as well.      

My mind wonders.  

All in a days work.

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