CLEAN OUT THE GARAGE

We started in early this morning cleaning out the garage. Today they will drop off an excavator and tomorrow the excavator driver will be here to excavate the garage. We managed to get everything out that we wanted to keep and the rest will be dumped with the garage. On Monday of next week we will have delivered a new shed from a company that makes them in Amish Country.
The daughter and her boyfriend came over to help with the clean out.
Saw the eye doc this morning and the cataract surgery went very well in both eyes. Just two more weeks of drops in each eye and then I will see him again.

MOVING IN

When I was ready to move out of my parent's house it was because I was married. Now that I look back on it I didn't care what our first apartment looked like. It could have had shelves supported by cinder blocks in the living room. I didn't care I was moving out of a bedroom that held my entire life into a three bedroom flat with a living room, dinning room, kitchen and a bath and my own washer and dryer. I was going out in the world to start my life with the guy loved and a long future ahead of us. It is very different with my daughter. She owns her own condo and her fiance owns his own house and they both have bought and decorated in their own personal style. My daughter is planning on moving into his house and her decorating style is clashing with his or vice verse. I am having trouble helping them balance this but I never had this problem. Granted most of the things that were in my husband's and my first apartment was his stuff because he had an apartment when we met I still had to merge my stuff into his, but like I said it didn't matter to me. I guess it's different with my daughter she had to earn the money and painstakingly picked out the furniture and paid for it her self so I guess in a sense she is right that she doesn't feel like she wasts to give it up and he had to do the same and he probably feels the same way. The only way I could help them is tell them that they each had a style when they met and now that have to make it an "our style". I am sure it will work out but it may be painful.

RAIN RAIN RAIN

One of the reasons I started this blog was to keep track of the things that happen every year like the daily weather, planting flowers and shrubs and when we accomplished things on the outside of the house each Spring.

Unfortunately I have failed at keeping this blog up to date this Spring so it is basically useless to me in the areas mentioned above.

The only thing I can say that it seems to have been raining a very long time.

I will try to sum things up for the last few weeks.

I have had cataract surgery in both eyes. The right eye was a breeze and two weeks later the second eye seemed to give me a bit more trouble. There was pain in the left eye that didn't exists in the right eye and a blood vessel or somethng was broken during surgery on the left or second eye that caused my eye to look disgusting but did not effect the results of the surgery. The doctor said it looks great.

The mud/laudnry room is complete. The just have to finish the trim around the outside of the additon.

The pictures show some of the room. The cabinet with the lamp on it was in my brother's apartment. It was unfinished so I painted it to match the seat covers on the chairs.

Don't look beyond the windows, just look at the table and chairs. The car isn't usualy parked on the lawn and this is my husband old jeep that he uses to go back and forth to his construction sights with. The chair covers are new. This is a very old ice cream palor table and chairs that was in the store that my husband's grandparents had. They had a gas station and one part of the store was devoted to an ice cream parlor.

The washer dryer area and to the left of the washer dryer is the stainless steel shelves that we bought for storage of my small appliances, blender, crockpot, toaster, kitchen aid mixer, waffle maker, etc. The bi fold doors close and it doesn't even look like a laundry area.

BOOKSTORE

My daughter had the day off yesterday so we had the opportunity to go to the bookstore together to pick up a WEDDING PLANNER. Yes there has been some excitement since I last wrote here, an engagement.




On April 30th it was a nice enough day so we thought we would get the screens out from under the porch and put them up on the porch. So that's what we were doing when my daughter's boyfriend drove up without her. I figured she had asked him to come and help us with the screens. He did help and then when my husband and he were done they sat in the back yard with a cold drink and he said. "the reason I am here is because I want to ask you something, I would like to take Liz and my relationship to the next level, I would like to ask her to marry me, with your permission, of course." My husband, of course said yes. He had the ring with him and I actually got to see it before she did.

The ring is a halo setting.

He asked her to marry him that night and presented the ring on one knee. He is really a sweetheart.

AN ENGAGEMENT

OMG!! Where do I begin! My daughter is engaged!! I never thought I would say those words. She and her boyfriend had Saturday off from work. She texted me and said that she was going to get her nails done and he was going to run some errands. I spotted him on Facebook chat so I asked him what he was doing. He said he was going to pick up a special package and then stopping by our house to show it to us. He got here about 2:30 and helped my husband with a few things outside he was working on. We were putting up the screens on the front porch. After a while that sat on the back patio to take a short break and he said, "the reason I am here is that I have to ask you a question...........I would like to take your daughter and my relationship to the next level...........I would like to ask her to marry me.

SUNNY THEN RAINY

It started out as a beautiful day. By the time 11:30 am rolled in it was cloudy and rainy and don't blink, by the time 6:00 pm came it was sunny again. Crazy.





We went out this morning and did a few errands, only after we had waited until almost 9:30 for the carpenter to show up to start the trim around the windows and doors to the new room. While the sheet rock guy was here we deciced to tear off the wainscoating in the kitchen and sheet rock the kitchen anew also. There was a miscommunicaiton with the carpentar and he thought the tiler was going to be done until today so he thought he was starting on Monday. So Monday it is. So we went out to do our errands, had the car washed and stopped at home depot to get paint suppies. We started painting the porch floor today and hopefully the screens will be up on the porch this weekend.





When we got home I rushed to change into some decent clothes to join my friends at the old job at the nursing home for a luncheon in honor of administrative assistants.

HAZY HOT AND HUMID IT SOUNDS LIKE SUMMER

Hazy Hot and Humid today, no rain though, may be tonight.

I had to be to the doctor's office by 7:30 this morning for my check on my eye. Everything looked great he said. Just a series of eye drops at least until Monday when I have another follow up appointment.

It was so nice being out so early in the morning. There was hardly any traffic and after the appointment we went to the Italian Bakery for breakfast. Bought some biscotti. We also stopped by the garden center and picked up some various colored pansies. When I got home my husband planted them in the concrete basket and placed it on the landscape mound in the front of the house.

Got home and did some rearranging of closets. Folded all of my clean quilts and put them in the closet in one of the spare rooms where my husband has set up a closet with just shelves for that purpose specifically. I put away all of my winter shoes and hung my summer sandals on the shoe rack on the closet door and hung all of my husband short sleeved polo shirts out of the storage bucket from the winter and put his long sleeved polo shirts away in the same bucket. Watched the contractor tile the floor in the new room and I also washed two more quilts.

It rained during the night and my husband said that there was thunder and lightening but I must have been sound asleep because I didn't hear a thing. I had to sleep on my left side up on two pillows. That's what the instructions said for the night after cataract surgery. I sleep on my stomach normally so it was a miracle that I woke up on my side this morning.

They took my MIL to the hospital via ambulance from her Assisted Living Facility. They said she wasn't responding and she was clammy. When she got there they discovered her blood pressure was very low and she was probably dehydrated due to a case of diarrhea.

Could someone please tell me why my beautiful weeping cherry tree did not bloom on the top of the tree this Spring. It only bloomed all around the bottom like a skirt. My guess is that a lot snow lay on the top of the tree and then turned to ice and the ice sat there for a long time. If we had only thought to go out to the tree and knock the snow off before it turned to ice I think it would have been ok. Hopefully we will get green leaves just now white blossoms.