RAMBLING AROUND THE COTTAGE

JUST FINISHED EATING BRUNCH as the clock ticks on.  Scrambled eggs, crunchy toast with real butter and Manuka honey plus half an apple to eat.  Sipping on Bigelow Green Tea with Pomegranate.  Thinking about what else we should eat during the day.  Early supper and light evening snack?  I need to use up the lettuce in the fridge for salad and have some pears for dessert.

SUPPER MEAL.  Lettuce.  Plenty of bell peppers, chick peas, black beans, seeds and nuts.  🫒🫒🫒Olives, 🥕🥕🥕carrots and celery added.  If I whip up a healthy dressing, it should be eatable.  Croutons as well.  

Took some time this morning to look over the news and do some paperwork.  Hubby is snoozing in his chair as I blog.  He managed to get the pictures and receipts of the carriage house doors for the garage sent to the Insurance company JUST IN TIME to beat the deadline.  I relaxed as he emailed info to the Insurance Co.  He had one day remaining before the clock struck twelve.  

Cutting it too close for being comfortable for me.  I don't know if the adrenaline required to get a project done is what feeds him.  Flying by the seat of his pants, I get way too uptight when he runs right up to the wire.  This makes me extremely nervous and uncomfortable.  The blood pressure climbs with my nerves shattering my peace.  He flies by the seat of his pants.  Perhaps this should be an epitaph for him.

I saw a young girl at the coffee shop wearing blue jeans with wings printed on her backside and Hubby said she is flying by the seat of her pants.  I laughed as I knew what he meant. 

With my hip hurting, I won't be walking today around the track getting exercise or sunshine.  It bothers me that I am not getting my exercise.  I will start counting calories again with recording what I pop into my mouth and try really hard to stay in the 1000 calories a day category.  Back to it.  

I will make an appointment to see my doc next week about this hip pain and visit with him about Vitamin D shots as well.  Better get an adjustment by a Chiropractor also.  I've put this off long enough.  At the moment, I have frozen peas in a baggy in my right pocket as I wear my pink housecoat to help with the discomfort, but while I was putting some things away, I noticed some J.R. WATKINS COOLING pain relief roll-on staring at me from inside a clear sided storage box. hmmmm.  What a great find today as I limp about.  Better give this a try.

  

During the month of March, I had such great hopes of working in the garage and in the flower beds pulling old weeds and overgrown grass.  I might be able to work slow.  Really, really slow. With Spring being early, I'm not sure I'll get this accomplished before the Irises shoot upwards and bloom.  Disappointed as I had hoped that the flowerbeds and garage would be tidy, but then March isn't over yet.  After the beds finally get cleaned up, I need to stay on top of keeping the beds cleaned out of overgrowth.  I will aim for this.

Driving about town, the Daffodils are in bloom gracing us with splashes of cheery, spring yellow flowers, green leaves and stems.  The wavy, green leaves of Tulips are shooting up.  Pretty white Mock Pear blossoms from some trees shout tis Spring.  Really pretty.  Forsythia bushes are out in full bloom.  Tis SPRING with the calendar still saying it's WINTER.  By March, I am beyond ready for milder weather.  

I have some Tulip bulbs that didn't get planted last Fall so I may go ahead and place them in paper egg carton as a tray and plant in a prepared hole in the ground anyways knowing they will not bloom this Spring, but hopefully next year.    

At the base of the front yard trees is where they will go so next Spring they will be the first flowers to show Spring has arrived. Daffodils with Irises not far behind.

The small, Baby Gem Boxwood Bushes in front of the porch have freezer burn on them.  The last two years, the weather has dealt harshly with them in this part of the world.  I think I purchased the wrong kind of Box Wood from the venders.

Our Spring/Summer weather will disappear on Sunday with a wintery mix of snow again.  From threatening thunder storms one day to freezing snow the next, I'll rejoice when the blue skies and lush, green grasses make an appearance.  I am a pansy and dislike threatening weather.  The excitement is gone.

SNAP SHOTS ABOUT THE COTTAGE.  Bunnies by the window.  Bed is made up with thrift bedspread and throw pillows, baby plants are potted sitting on the window ledge in the kitchen and Roscoe P. Bumpercrop the Bunny is sitting in the Living room.  Doll Collection.

Thrift purchases to perk up the pink bedroom.

Paisley print.

Paisley refers to a distinctive teardrop-shaped pattern originating in Persia and India, popularized in the West by textiles made in Paisley, Scotland, and also used as a popular gender-neutral first name meaning "church" (from Scotish/Latin roots).  The pattern, known as boteh in Persian, symbolizes fertility, life, or a cypress tree, while the name Paisley itself comes from a Scottish town meaning "church" or "basilica".

Adding some green to the kitchen window ledge.

Roscoe P. Bumpercrop is waiting for SPRING.
Hello Roscoe.

I continue to TRY to make some sense of this messy COTTAGE dealing with things out of place.

Slowly, I will get finished.

Blessings,
~d