Blog 365 ~ Last Day of the Month

 

Here we are...The last day of March. And supposedly it's going to go out with a Bang 💥 Just like the Month Started....

Woke up this morning to Rain....Lot's of Rain!

Suits me, cause ya can't stop it -- Right??

Having the rain today forced me to slow down a bit [ see Jean at Chit Chat with Jean I can slow down some ], LOL. I took advantage of light rain this morning and delivered my Secret Bunny pkg. Hope she like's both weeks of gifts, one more week to go and we reveal who had each other.

Came home to get daily household chores done, start some laundry and started baking! Yep I Baked. Don't get to excited I am Not a from 'scratch' baker. 

A Messy kitchen, after bleaching everything yesterday...UGH! 

Made this Cake...

Added a few of these on top while baking...

and only $0.98 Yes Please!

Then Banana Bread with a few Peanut Butter Chips on top using this recipe....

I bake it for 1 full hour...

I managed to get more Office cleaning & organizing done, worked on next weeks 'intentions' to-do list, called and checked in on Gal Pal Mac [her hubby has been diagnosed with dementia].

Currently we are under 'Severe  Thunderstorm watch for the next few hours, with Moderate wind....I just hope Everyone stays Safe and it doesn't last to long. 

Signing Off, unplugging electronics JIC, and having some of the cake I baked.

Be Safe!

 

Blog 365 ~ Thursday Thoughts

 Woke up Early Thinking 🤔 What a Great Day !

Headed out Thinking 🤔 I'll ''sneak'' my Secret Bunny gift and get it delivered... Nope she was Home and had front doors WIDE Open, so couldn't do that.... [🌞shining still a Great day]

Thinking I needed to get the 2 Large prints out of my office before 1. Either I knock something into them or 2. One of these Mangy  Precious PurrBoys would start scratching on them. Delivered them to Hospice Coordinator, let her be in charge of them... [no more worries about them so still a Great Day]

Household chores completed, ate a light lunch and finally decided to get my looong in.... 

since I've been plugging around

at getting my home office back in shape standing closer to my Plant Babies makes it a Great Day!

Headed out trying to find my stride/groove with walking I found my first .... picking it up saying 'thank you Papaw and continued on.... [already getting paid to walk?? a Great Day]

Downtown is a Complete mess with all...the...construction going on! Lot's of dangerous intersections, so instead I avoided them by walking side streets as much as possible....still getting to see beautiful flowers....

There's something to be said when you see such beauty on Any Given Day..... [a Great Day is has been]

I'm a Ambassador for Honey Stinger and truly like their products. Since I wasCrazy and signed up for a Half Marathon at Flying Pig, I've been trying to figure out my hydration & 'boost' products. 

 Not knowing IF I was going to go for all 6 of the miles I really needed I started with a chew every mile.... 2 miles in from my house to the park I Still wasn't sure about doing 6--and had it in my mind 4 is better that none. I walked to the bathroom and what do I see??? 

 11more cents to go with the penny I had found earlier.... Apparently PaPaw was Screaming at me from Heaven! I took it as a huge sign, and off to do the long loop at the park - then back home to give me my 6 miles....

I'm hoping to stay fairly close to this pace... [What a Great Day]

I also am hoping to eventually become Ambassador for Fairlife Core Power....

I've tried so many, but this one is Awesome! And getting the much needed Protein is a PLUS!! [A Great Day continued]

Showered, Rested, and waited for the hub's to get home. Simple dinner of Veggie soup [from freezer]

Dressed for success,ready to head out for Meet & Greet.

We met Daniel in 2018 when he was just starting out, running for Ky's Attorney General....

And is now campaigning to run for Govenor. I really like his values, and dedication to all of us in the Commonwealth. Will he win?? I do hope so, all I know is he has my vote.

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Blog 365 ~ Almost April!!

 

Can you Believe Next Month will be here in 2 more days!! Woop Woop and it's my Birthday Month to boot. 

Anyway, I was able to get a lot of stuff done today [Go Me].  After making the bed I went the extra mile for breakfast fixing cheese scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, & a waffle. Coffee of course.

After the hub's left for work I loaded the dishwasher, bleached down the kitchen, swept all the floors, and bleached the bathroom. 

Headed out to the gym....

 Silver Sneakers this morning was on point!!

Noon Day Bible Study was cancelled for today but I did stop in for Deacons Prayer service....

I wish the regular BS people would come and also listen to these guys.

I came home and had a quick Lunchable, checked in on my Gal Pal Mac then got at it again with the mulching...

I wanted to make a BIG dent in this pile....and Man Did I....

 I finished up 2 beds from yesterday,

Then Cleaned--Preened--and spread leftover Cypress mixed with this years Red Mulch....

I also worked on getting the new lights hung around our sitting area.

Other areas around the firepit and sitting are were Cleaned--Preened--Mulched!

    

Unfortunately, this happened.....

I was hoping to use the rider & wagon to move the balance of the mulch off the porch so I can start working on that project..[sigh]..I texted the hub's to see if there was anything I could do before he got home, but, OF Course he didn't answer me. So SURPRISE Hubby, you can deal with it now..LOL!

UNFORTUNATELY .... it also meant if I wanted the balance of the mulch moved, I hand to do via Wheelborrow!! UGH...it was a Job!

 

I have just 1 more area to do, but it's at the back of the house and I'm the only one who see's it. As of now I plan on getting it done early next week. Tomorrow is Silver Sneakers, then a  Looong walk/run[I hope some run] for training, and have dinner ready when hub's gets home. Tomorrow night is a GOP candidate meet & greet then I plan to go do a little Line Dancing. Friday weather is calling for thunderstorms, and high winds [again] for Saturday..🤞 it doesn't affect our race. 

*** Hope everyone has a Great Night - I plan on it being an Early one for me! ***

Blog 365 ~ Pet Care ~ Lawn Care

 Yesterday morning I took our 3 oldest PurrBoys to get their teeth cleaned. 

I borrowed my daughters carriers because trying to carry all of them together would have been a Back Breaker! 

Now a couple of my friends were surprised we were doing such a thing?? Well all I know after seeing a social media post regarding a cat that developed a lot of health issues from his teeth I wanted to do what I could for the older boys. Dr. Tyler sent me a pic of Roadie' back teeth and I was Shocked! To me it looked like he had broken it off. Apparently though cats back teeth are shaped different and what I was looking at was years of tarter build up. He deep cleaned all 3 of them and we were able to pick them up late afternoon. Dr. Tyler told us that they would be 'groggy' most of the night and he said PunkN since he was the biggest of the 3 would probably take longer to 'come around'.

(PunkN camped out under the dresser last night)

Dr. Tyler also INFORMED me that PunkN needed to be on special diet food! Well, that's gonna be a bit difficult as we have him plus 5 more to deal with. Yes he's a BIG boy weighing in at 19#, Goober weighs 15#, our 'old man' of the group is 8.5#....not sure what the others weigh. Both PunkN & Goober are not totally back to 'their' normal activities...

 and have been sleeping/resting together a lot-something they don't normally do. All I know is, I'm glad we got them taken care of and even though it was expensive (302$) it was worth every penny to have them with a healthier mouth, which will continue to help with their overall well being. As far as the 💰money💰 we spent, I do a 'sinking funds envelope' system and had the cash on hand to pay for the vet bill.

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I started working on the HUGE pile of mulch sitting on my porch....Managed to Clean--Preen--and spread Red Mulch all along the front & side areas of the house.

Monday's project in between getting household chores done and attending a Hospitality Training meeting and dealing with the PurrBoys.

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For today after household chores, I tackled some of the mess in my home office. It could have qualified for the show 'Hoarders:Buried Alive'😝 but I managed to make a BIG dent in it and now it only qualifies for the show 'Hoarders'😄, LOL!

Afterward I went to a meeting regarding getting sponsorship $$ for an upcoming race event, ANNND get them on board to be the host location for a Half-Marathon in my town!  🤞I'm so hopeful, and really do🤞think they will let us use 🤞their parking lot for the event and as Start/Finish line area. I've been trying for multiple years to get a longer distance race event in my community. I'm determined and going to get us back to where we used to be regarding race events & road athlete activities. Back home again and the hubby and I had appointment to finish up escrow loan at his bank... oy vey! Talk about a Looong Draaawn out process! His bank can't make major loan decisions like this since their ''Home Office" is in Pittsburgh. I was ready to take it to my bank. They're local AND make decisions On..The..Spot! Oh well, it's done, finally and we can continue on. 

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Once home, I got started again on getting the flower beds cleaned--preened--and mulch laid..

                

I make another BIG DENT in this PILE...

I know it's still early in the season to do a bunch of gardening stuff, I can at least get mulch laid and be done with that portion of outside projects. I've turned the soil in my raised bed mixing in table scraps from winter months. 

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That's it for this Tuesday! I've got lot's still on my to-do list and will be back at it early in the morning! 

PS--I've been invited to join Kiwanis!?! Not sure what they are or do but 😉maybe ??