MIDDLE OF THE WEEK

~A NICE BEDROOM~

HAVE MERCY.  How quickly it has become the middle of the week.  Wednesday.  

WALKING.  I didn't walk two miles yesterday like I had hoped to.  Instead it was more like a mile while shopping.

I parked our car on the far side of Walmart's parking lot under a shade tree and walked while shopping then back to the car.  Pretty sure I walked a mile altogether.  This morning I did some paperwork before walking to the Dollar Store and HOME again so I know for sure I walked 2 miles altogether.  I was red faced when I got HOME and it seemed like steam was rising from my body once I walked inside the house.

Hubby greeted me at the door and commented that I looked worn out and got a cold cloth for my neck.  This helped me cool down.  After a few minutes, I took my blood pressure knowing my heart rate would be elevated, but was shocked that my BP was what it was.  113/71/91, waited a minute and switched wrist band cuffs registering at 112/77/100.  Besides the heart rate being what it was, my eyes bugged that my BP was as good as it was.  Pleasantly surprised.  

Last Monday, the same thing happened with my BP after walking 2 miles.  118/66/81 and 123/65/80.

I believe my old body approves of me walking 2 miles.  I pray to continue walking in the mornings and working at becoming a healthier me.  

Noticing on the calendar, I have 9 weeks before I have blood work done at the doctor's office for yearly physical.  That's 9 weeks to see if I lose some weight and how my cholesterol levels are doing along with A1c, Vitamin D and B12.  OH LORD, I beseech thee.

Admiring the backyard Irises this morning.  Gosh they are beautiful.  In July, I believe Hubby and I will cut some greenery off of a chain link fence that has over powered the area, make a new flowerbed closer to the fence, and relocate the Heirloom Purple Irises that are along a sidewalk.  We'll plant them in circles of 6 bulbs.  I'm pretty sure we will have some overflow that will need to go elsewhere.  I'll give some to my daughter and daughter-in-law plus plant some along the right side of the house.  Maybe around the base of some trees.

It'll be over a year or more before we do the same with the flowerbed we have on the other side of the yard.  

As we gear up for the High School Graduations, my emotions have done the same.  I believe I need to stay active so my mind will handle the emotions better.  We have much to be thankful for and I want to embrace these thoughts over the sadness I feel at times.

NAP TIME.  I think I'll allow myself some quiet time.  Then after I wake, I'll locate what we're going to wear to two graduations.  My old legs need shaved and so do my pits or it'll be the pits.

The Cancer Center called me saying they had a cancellation and if I wanted to come in earlier I could.  Think I'll take them up on this.  

NEXT WEEK.  Our schedule should be lighter and we can focus on organizing the front bedroom which is presently a warehouse.  I think once we get into this task, it'll go quickly and my spirits will be lifted having a actual bedroom be a bedroom.  This has been the most difficult move of all times for us and I personally need to see progress.  Waiting is a dirty name.  I haven't done well with the waiting.

Blessings and here's to WEDNESDAY,

~d 

Dogs Are Barking

When the neighborhood dogs start barking, the mailman is delivering the area mail.  Twice a morning I can hear the canine choir bellowing out their tune.  It's loud.  Annoying.  

Thankfully it doesn't last longer than 10 minutes.  Whooof whooof.  Woof woof.   

This noise pollution is by far better to take than high powered train whistles blaring umpteen times throughout the day as well as in the dark of the night.  Hopefully, I will get use to the barking as I did the train whistles.  After all it's a earth friendly alarm telling me the mail is on the way.  My personal alert.  

Today I'll go to TOWN to mail Family pictures to relatives, wash 3 loads of towels, visit the THRIFT SHOPPE and plant some light pink Geraniums in two round planters.  If I accomplish these tasks, I will take a break and enjoy the SPRING weather while sipping something like Pero.

Grey skies this morn where the birds are chirping.  It may be one of those stormy days with thunder showers.  We have a Momma bird that built her nest in the Kitchen porch on top of the metal fuse box.  Didn't have the heart to turn her away as she feverishly built her NEST for her lil eggs.


AT first, she'd fly away when we exited the door or entered the house.  Slowly she stopped fluttering out.  My Husband is the bird and animal whisperer.  He'd talk to her in a low gentle voice and she started staying put.  When she stayed away longer than he thought prudent, he took the camera, raised it up to catch a glimpse of the eggs.  Snap.  These eggs had yellow beaks.  The eggs were now hatched.  Momma bird is hunting worms to feed her babes.

After they fly the coop, the nest will be removed.  Later a screen door will go on the porch.  No more bird's nest.  One mustn't forget that as the birds get bigger before flying out, there will be bird poo to clean up.  Love the birds, but don't especially like their waste product.  grins.

Hubby and I battled moving the antique bed headboard up the flight of stairs, turn the corner in the landing and continue up half a dozen more steps, down the hall then turning into bedroom.  We made it with a whole lot of huffing and puffing.  

NEXT came the footboard.  He started to assemble the bed with the 2 heavy wood side rails and footboard as I balanced the footboard.  She is sitting in her new HOME.  I think she looks beautiful.  Better than when I first saw her last SUMMER.  When we were loading her up in the moving truck, she had become even prettier than when sitting in the SHOPPE.  She's burled walnut and over a hundred years old.  Beautiful.

The bedroom is small, but think the way it will be arranged will be manageable.  Positioning the bed into place along the wall.  Tonight we hope to carry up the mirror from the dresser.  Large and heavy.  THINK we'll have to call in the troops to get the bottom of the dresser and washstand upstairs.  Extremely heavy.  Very weighty for two old people in their 60s.     

This week I had hoped to get the Bedroom Suite upstairs.  We are on target.  The week isn't over.  Next week the church pew will return to the Kitchen nook which means a metal rack and work island will have to be relocated.  If it isn't one thing, it's umpteen other things.  smile.  SOmewhere in here I will have to rearrange the food pantry and find nooks and crannies to put extra dishes and misc.

By the end of JUNE, I hope to have a mattress/boxspring on order for the Antique bed, bedding, both Guest rooms ready for company to sleep in them, the Kitchen tidied again, the Living room all organized, plants on the porch, new glasses on my face and the fire recovery notes typed up.  Goals.  

Have a pleasant day!
d

Where Do You Start After A MOVE?

SLEEP WELL after a move.

I've heard the Bedroom should be the first room put together 

after a move, so that it's the first thing you see in the morning upon waking and the last thing you see when retiring for the night.

CLEAN BEDDING and sweet dreams.

d

Black and White Bedroom

Black and White bedrooms look so classy if you ask me........

Daughter.n.law Shell has done just that.

Blessings,

~Deanna~