Dreamflower's Mathom-house

1. I finished a really great book! Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads. It's a graphic novel by Nick Hayes, a biography of sorts about Woody's life up until the forties, but it's more than just that--the art is perfect for the telling of those difficult times (all browns and sepia tones, with an angular style that just fits), but the prose is beautiful and lyrical even when speaking of dreadful fires or horrible dust storms or the horrible crushing poverty of the average people of those times. It resonates greatly with today. I HIGHLY recommend it!
2. The DH and I watched "Zootopia" tonight on Netflix. What a delightful and fun movie!
3. We harvested more sweet potatoes today. So far I think we've gotten about 8 pounds. We still have about a third of the bed left to harvest.
4. I finished working on my sewing/craft room today. I do have a couple of boxes to sort through left, but they are now all tidy and stacked in a corner, along with a box that will go to a thrift store on Tues. (Around here all the thrift stores are closed Mondays).
5. We had homemade vegetable soup, along with cornbread and for me, buttermilk to drink, for supper tonight. I do believe that's one of my favorite meals.

I've decided to jump on the five good things bandwagon with many of my friends:

1. The weather today was absolutely gorgeous: cool this morning and a high of only 80F.
2. We got to Stillwater to pick up the police report without any mishap. Plus, when we found out how much a fax would cost ( O_0 ), the DH called Geico. They gave us the name of a local agent who could send it for us for no cost!
3. I only have about eight rows left on the body of my tunic-blouse that I am crocheting, and then I can get on to the sleeves and the trim!
4. I hung new blinds in one set of my sewing room windows. And I got a lot of progress made with my cleaning and organizing in there.
5. Best for last: for supper tonight we had HOMEGROWN BAKED SWEET POTATOES along with our baked chicken strips and salad with HOMEGROWN TOMATOES for supper tonight! We've never grown sweet potatoes before--these were grown from slips grown from ordinary grocery store sweet potatoes. These were delicious, and we still have about three-quarters of the little bed we made to still dig up.

BONUS: Today I also got my $10 gift card for Walmart in the mail. Four times a year I do this climate survey for OSU, and then they send me a $10 gift card! Couldn't have come at a better time, since we are low on funds right now.

I woke up last night out of a sound sleep as sick as I could be.

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I still don't know what caused it, whether a bug or something I ate.
Anyhow, I do feel better now, though very tired still. But I feel like I wasted a whole day.

I hope I'll have more energy tomorrow, though.

We got a small insurance check in the mail this morning, and so we headed out to do some errands and put it in the bank. The hardware store was closest, so we went there first. But when we opened the car doors, the check just blew away! My husband chased after it, but it kept on blowing, and he couldn't catch it, and then he couldn't see it anymore. He searched as much as he could in the lumberyard, and then told one of the employees about it, just on the off chance it would turn up. Then we went home, and I was quite upset because I thought it was my fault it got lost--I was the one who had placed the mail on the dash, not thinking of the wind when the doors opened.

We thought it was lost forever, but we just got a call from the hardware store: they found it! So I hurried over to pick it up. Thankfully it's only a few blocks from our house.

So now I am back and thanking the Lord for a small miracle!

(crossposted from monthlydiaryday

6AM--Woke up. The DH has an appointment at 8:30 to get his tires rotated and the oil changed at the dealer in Stillwater (Free tire rotation came with the tires when he bought them, and he has a coupon for oil change). I make breakfast (sausages and toast) and then we feed the pets, get dressed, clean up the kitchen, make the bed and tidy a few things up. We are out the door by 7:45.

First we stop and get gas in the car, and head on out. I brought my crocheting with me, so I work on it as we go.

8:15-- We get there a little early, and wait in the waiting room. I work on my crocheting, and we watch some news on the Olympics on the TV in the lobby. After a while my fingers get tired, so I put my blouse that I'm working on away and take out my iPad. The dealer has free WiFi, so I read a really well-done HP/Narnia crossover.

9:45-- They finished with the car, so we go to the Stillwater library. I browse the stacks for a while and find a few books to check out.

10:30-- We go to a local Donut Shop, and get a donut and something to drink.Then we go to Petco to pick up some calming tablets for our dog. What with all the summer thunderstorms lately, she was out of them. This was followed by a visit to Dollar Tree, and a couple of other stops

12NOON-- We have lunch at Noodles and Company. I can't. Recall the name of the dish but we both ordered spaghetti noodles with chicken, mushrooms, fresh spinach, and diced tomatoes. Last stop in Stillwater is their Braums to load my gift card.

1:45-- Home. We check the mail, let the dog out, and put stuff away. Then we sit down to rest for a while and watch a couple of episodes of "Texas Flip and Move". Naturally we fall asleep.

4PM-- I get supper started (spaghetti and meatballs). While the sauce simmers, I work on a few zentangles.

6PM-- I boil the spaghetti and make a couple of salads and we have supper. We watch the news. Afterward I take a shower. Then we watch "The West Wing" on Netflix until around 10ish. The DH decides to get ready for bed, so I play around with YouTube for a little while, and then come on to bed around a quarter till 11, then I go to bed too.

Political stuff behind the cut, for courtesy's sake. I don't wish to offend any friends who disagree with me:( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from monthlydiaryday

8:15AM--Woke up and had some breakfast, turned on GMA. Checked the bank balance online; we were $1.91 overdrawn ( Read more... )

OK, I posted some garden picspam from the backyard the other day. So, here's some new pics of what we've done in the front.

First up: my little "hobbit garden"



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Miss Belladonna says "Happy Caturday!"

(Cross-posted from monthlydiaryday)

Sorry to be posting this so late, but this is the first chance I've had to type up my notes. Behind cut for length and pics: ( Read more... )