Old man win­ter is los­ing it. We got snow. We got wind. But he didn’t “huff and puff and blow our house down”. Of course we didn’t stick around to see it.( If I told you every time I was not going to be around for a few days, that is all I would blog about!!!)  We HAD to be in the cities once again, for sev­eral rea­sons, and have now returned to find the dri­ve­way plowed, the ani­mals well fed, the heat on and the plumb­ing not frozen and not once did we have to drive on slick, sleety win­ter roads. It was a good bliz­zard. Every­thing is now white and pris­tine again. Well, as pris­tine as it can be with two dogs and numer­ous cats about. If I don’t get out to see the snow imme­di­ately after it is done snow­ing, I won’t see, in our yard, an unblem­ished piece of snow. There will be tracks every­where, gifts of “yel­low” snow and other frozen “items” too numer­ous to men­tion. Couldn’t do a snow angel if my life depended on it!! Yet it looks pretty and once again the snow fence did it’s job. A valu­able inven­tion, to us coun­try folk. to be sure!! This was my kind of bliz­zard.
Did you know that, scap­ing and paint­ing all the out­build­ings on your prop­erty, paint­ing your house, paint­ing your fences every other year, paint­ing all the inside of your house, rip­ping up all the car­pet­ing upstairs and on the stairs, tak­ing down all the tile in the bath­room as prep work for the plumber, mow­ing 4 acres and spray­ing 7, gar­den­ing, weed­ing, har­vest­ing, can­ning, trim­ming trees and bushes all sum­mer, feed­ing ani­mals, clean­ing garages, out­build­ings, barns, clean­ing all the gut­ters on the house, stain­ing the wood floors on both porches every year and the wood fur­ni­ture every year, drop­ping every­thing to go assist your hus­band should his assis­tant be sick, doing all the year end paper work and all the insur­ance claims, babysit­ting the grand­daugh­ter at a moments notice and so on are not work???? Lucky me! All this time I thought I was work­ing and I was just play­ing! This impli­ca­tion was made clear to me by a fam­ily mem­ber over the week­end. Thanks for the heads up because, in addi­tion to once again doing most of those things this year, the fun play thing I will also do this year is remov­ing all the old calk from all of our win­dows, recalk­ing and paint­ing all the old win­dows in our house, and scrap­ing and repaint­ing the 2 small sheds on our place AND proably put in a few more gar­dens. All this by myself. I can hardly wait. What fun!!! Who, in their right mind, would want to go get a pay­ing job” when they are hav­ing so much fun? Not me!!!!!!
Our state weekly paper has a won­der­ful col­umn called “Your 2 cents worth.” It is hilar­i­ous. I have been banned from the call list because I call too often. Just kid­ding!  But I WOULD be!!
Had a super won­der­ful time with my kids this week­end!! We are all “thrift” store shop­pers (except maybe Sherm, who just goes along to be nice most times, although he did find some­thing he really liked this time). I LOVE thrift store shop­ping. It has got­ten so bad that if I have to pay more than $5 for an item I hes­i­tate because it is get­ting too expen­sive.  Even thrift stores are rais­ing their prices though. The cities thrift stores are quite a bit more pricey than down here but the selec­tion up there leaves us to shame. I am always surpised, down here, to see other peo­ple I know thrift store shop­ping. Guess every­one wants to save a dime. I have the won­der­ful oppor­tu­nity to visit the stores often (because I don’t work) and so can catch more bar­gains. You ought to try it. You will be amazed at what peo­ple throw away!!
Did you know there is blog police? Yep. His name is Herr Sher­man. So post often, even if you have noth­ing to say, or he WILL call.
Well off  to play some more. Hope you are hav­ing a good one.