First, thank you all for your comments about my staying or leaving. Isn’t there a song with the words, “…should I stay or should I go now?” In any case, I feel as though that’s my anthem for the moment. I am, of course, leaning toward staying. It would be so much simpler than, as I think it was my sister said, using so much energy to move and establish a new place. Anyway, appreciate your comments and suggestions.
I didn’t get anything
written to post today, so I’m writing this now, an hour after my post usually goes
up. Yesterday, a group of very nice young men came to my house (okay, yes,
maybe I was drooling just a bit) to remove an alder and even up the red maple
from where the City Light-retained tree folks (who, in my opinion know nothing
about pruning) butchered it. To be fair, there have been a couple of companies
in the past where if I went out and made nice, they would do a better job of
pruning the maple.
Today, the company who
mows my grass and gets up the mountains of leaves will be here. I think the
owner may not be happy when he sees the alder gone and maybe he won’t notice the
maple. I asked him about the trees and the prices he quoted were like three to
four times more than the company I used charged me. Of course, it helps when
the company gives you a “family” price because they’ve taken down three huge
trees for my son.
I also went to Sky Nursery
yesterday and bought four huge bags of soil amendment. Then, I continued with
garden clean up and got enough done to spread one bag of the amendment out.
What’s done looks terrific and since the sun’s shining right now, I’m wondering
if that means I can get back out there this afternoon and complete the area
that goes around the deck. Guess I’ll have to see what happens as the day
progresses.
Also did a bit of work on
the next book. I think I was making the first chapter way too long, so I’ve cut
it back into three parts. Also think I’ve decided on a name, WATER RIGHTS, but
we’ll see. Depending on how the writing goes…and the thinking because I spend a
lot of time thinking about what’s going on the page…maybe I can begin posting
chapters this week, surely by next Monday.
Finished off yesterday by
making myself a very nice salad to go with the frozen lasagna. How many of you
have tried or use Stouffer’s lasagna or mac and cheese? The little boxes are
just the right size for one person and I love them. Even when I used to feed
the whole family, I would buy Stouffer’s or Kirkland big pans of lasagna. You
add more mozzarella cheese just before it’s done and it’s perfect. I haven’t
made lasagna from scratch for probably a decade or more.
Well, that’s it for this
boring post. I haven’t had breakfast yet either, so it’s time to go fix my
oatmeal with raisons and decide what I’m going to do today. Y’all have a very
busy, happy and pleasant day.