Yesterday

[dreamflower]

5: 45AM--Woke up early, as the DH has to leave early. He's on the last of three days of special classes he needs for his job, and the classes are in OKC. It's a little over an hour's drive. I fix him some breakfast and pack his lunch and see him off to work. Then I settle into my recliner and go back to sleep.

8AM-- Woke up, got my own breakfast, and watched the last half of "Good Morning America". Then I get dressed.

9AM--I was going to walk the dog, but it looks like the predicted rain is imminent, and I have no desire to get drenched a couple of blocks away. So instead I take Sophie with me into the back yard to check the garden. I've got bindweed growing in the cucumber bed and one of my tomatoes needs caging; luckily I have one cage left. Then I harvest some of my herbs. I sit down in the swing and watch Sophie play until the rain begins, and we come back in the house. Check my email and my flist. Make the bed and tidy up a little.

10:30AM--The rain has passed temporarily, so I decide to go run errands now while the going is good. Two bills to pay--the plumber, and the furniture store. I stop at the local video store, turn in "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies" and rent "Big Hero 6" and pick up a secondhand copy of TH:Bo5A, so next time I want to see it we won't have to rent. Stopped at Braums, picked up milk, potatoes, bread and a couple of other things.

11:45AM--Got home, put away groceries. Made myself a Caprese salad with some of the basil I harvested this morning. While I ate, I watched "Arrow" on Netflix, and then another episode afterwards. I was curious, since I've been hearing good things about it from friends.

2PM--I worked on finishing up some painted rocks I want to put in the front garden. The ones I did yesterday needed to have a few details added, and sealer, and I made one more, a mushroom. I had two rocks that fit together perfectly. I used E6000 to glue them together.

3:15PM--My son came over to return some things he'd borrowed, do some laundry, and also mow the lawn while he was here. I swiffed, and did some tidying up, and I cleaned up my mess from painting. Then I watched another episode of "Arrow". Son left about 4:45, and the DH got home about a quarter after 5.

6PM--I'd planned on having leftovers tonight, but he asked if I wanted to go out. (Silly question!) So we went to Boomerangs, a regional chain that serves diner-type food. The DH ordered the all you can eat catfish dinner and I ordered chicken-fried steak (the portion's hug, so I always have some left for the next day). I ordered brown gravy instead of white since they always put too much pepper in the white.

7:30PM--Got home; the DH was tired and not feeling well after three long days in a row, so we decided to wait on watching the movie. Instead, we watched the episode of "Brother vs Brother" we'd recorded, and then make an early night of it. While he takes shower, I'll see if I can upload the pics I took of today's projects, then head for bed myself.

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Crossposted from monthlydiaryday

Comments

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

I love your rocks!

[dreamflower]

Thanks! I also brought a few of my older ones in from the garden to clean up and do a bit of touch up on them. Some of them look good as new when they were rinsed off but a few of them will need a complete re-do. Once they are back in the garden I'll do some more pics!

[febobe.livejournal.com]

Your little rocks are beautiful and adorable. :)

I absolutely LOVE reading this rundown of your day, times and all. It's so helpful and interesting to me to see how other people pass their days. I might try to do something like that on occasion, though I'm nowhere nearly so productive and "together" as you are. :)

*hugs*

[dreamflower]

Thanks!

This is my entry at monthlydiaryday. Every month on the 12th or the day after-- everyone makes a post of what they did on that date. It's a lot of fun.

I try to remember to crosspost, since the comm is locked for members.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Those rocks are totally awesome!

By the way, I LOVE your minute to minute detail of the day!

[dreamflower]

Thanks! The rocks are fun.

I only do that on the 12th, for my monthlydiaryday entry. It's interesting to keep track, and also to see what everyone else did on the same day.

[shirebound]

I love your rocks. Your garden will be so enhanced by their presence.

I've never tasted catfish!

[dreamflower]

Once they are back outside, I'll take more pics.

I remember you mentioning that once before. If you ever visit, we'll have to remedy that!

[ysilme]

Your rocks rock! ;o) It's such a cool idea to paint Smials for the garden...

[dreamflower]

Thanks! I have a tutorial up at MPTT: http://www.lotrgfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=1845&chapter=1

It's lots of fun.

[ysilme]

A tutorial about these is great. I haven't painted rocks for a while, but it's something I'm much more familiar than polymer clay these days! *g* I did a few "test rocks" a few years ago with acrylic paint, but without finish/sheen, to see how long the colour keeps, as I prefer the look like this. They're still looking pristine after at least four winters outsie, so I suppose I can do it like this.

[dreamflower]

You should post pics if you try it!

[ysilme]

I will! Perhaps I'll experiment also with some adder stones, although I'm reluctant to use them "up", so to say. *g* I hope we can collect some nice stones on our summer trip, and perhaps some well-used for painting, too.

[dreamflower]

Some of the stones I have are ones I found, but when we first moved here the DH purchased several huge stones from a stone dealer, and as a courtesy, the owner allowed me to pick out many smaller stones. I took about fifteen or so, but I haven't painted them all yet.

[ysilme]

I should perhaps asked about the woodfiller here, it's easier to continue the discussion... ;o)

You wrote: "Wood filler" is usually sold in hardware stores or departments. It's basically a mixture of very fine sawdust with a plasticized binder of one sort or another. Some brands over here are sold in small cans and others are sold in tubes; it's not very expensive. It is very pliable until it dries, and then it is really hard and durable.
Brands I have used in the US are DAP and Minwax. I have no idea if they have those brands in Europe.
i hope you are successful! I'd love to see pics when you are done!


The brands are unfamiliar, but most brands regarding home repair and hardware seem to be. I thought it would be something like this, and my father taught me how to create the kind of sawdust necessary and mix it with the typical wood glue we have available. I thought of this, too, but it's too liquid to be creative with, even if you mix sawdust in, and it can't be painted over.
But I'll ask the next time I'm in the hardware store. This is where I miss a good craft store again, even in the next large city! We don't have that, or only on a level which usually is no use for me, as they mostly offer only stuff for the crafts currently in fashion, and the vendors aren't very knowledgeable.

Right now I'm "crafting" something else, though: the electric wires for our cat fence! *g* I've done my first trials with a special kind of construction glue yesterday to fix some of the insulators on the wall of our neighbour's garage. Thankfully his garage as well as the glue is white, as it was a messy business. But it seems to hold, at least.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

That's a very full day.

I love your painted rocks.

[dreamflower]

It was pretty busy!

Thanks! I love making them.