Too Much Fun For the Guys I Go Out With !

We cleaned our entire back yard last Saturday. That was quite the job; as you will know if you have seen it lately. We aren’t big on cleaning up in the fall. My philosophy is that all of those dead leaves will keep my perennials warmer during the winter. That must not be true, because they don’t very often come up a second year at my house. I did not inherit my Mother’s green thumb I am sad to say. Or maybe it is the effort – mine will never be equal to hers when it comes to the yard. Anyway, there was a lot of raking and blowing and sweeping and clipping and cutting and hauling of bags and branches and other ascendery trash. I am sure that the garbage guys were thrilled on Tuesday! I do have two things that I am proud of in my yard. My two bleeding hearts are well on their way to another stunning year and every one of the tulip and daffodil bulbs we planted last fall are coming up! I am so impressed with myself. (The true test will be if they come up again next spring.)

We got finished just in time because the weather then turned cold. It made me feel disheartened; I was all set for spring to be here. I am not a big fan of summer, truth be known, but I am impatiently waiting for winter to be concluded. After all of that work, my back was in trouble. So I spent a few hours at the chiropractor this week. That is a bit frustrating; I always feel I should be making better use of my time. I did manage to solve a couple of my ‘disconcerting dilemmas’ while I was lying there, face down, getting electrocuted by little patches. One of the issues that has been bugging me is the school room. It is crammed with all kinds of learning tools and if it is not pristinely clean, it is similar to navigating some kind of maze with booby traps on the floor. Needless to say, it is never pristinely clean! Two boys are its most frequent occupants. To shorten this story, as I was lying there, my face in the . . .the . . .the whatever that thing you put your face in is called, I came up with a way to multiply the free space! WhoaLaaa! So after spending half of the week at the chiropractor, I went home and with the help of Cj deep cleaned this room including moving all of the furniture! Just don’t tell the doctor!
After all of this fun, I am ready for a non-work weekend. Happily, we are going to Boise for two nights. Looking forward to that! A book and a comfy bed; I am hoping to get in a few hours of reading. There is the Jenks Family Egg Hunt, a 70 something year tradition, to be attended. All I will say about that right now is this, if you haven’t attended the Jenks Family Egg Hunt (one and all are invited, everyone is family to a Jenks) you have not truly lived, to borrow a phrase. So, that is all for now. I will try and report on the Egg Hunt next week. Perhaps I will even have photos!