Getting ready

 Today is going to get quite warm... 85F or so. So I went out on the deck to finish up getting ready for our Easter get together. Nagged Bob into checking on the grill which is  sort of below the deck. He's currently changing  clothes... hosing down the grill and checking the tanks left him WET. We have one completely full tank and one partial...plenty for all the "white hots" we are planning to grill.

We are supposed to get at least two days of rain this week... no deck chair cushions on till Saturday!!  Bob and I discussed the menu and I am just about set! 

Put my box of short pile mohair out into the mailbox... with its USPS label.. headed off to California to a bear maker who is still making small(very small) bears!! Sad to see it go but I know I will never be using it.

 Made a batch of scones... will have to rethink some of the directions but they came out tasting great. Bob snarfed one down right away...

warmer today

So wish yesterday (rally day) had been as warm as its getting today!!

I spent part of the last few days de-cluttering some of my mohair fabric. I have mohair that could only be used to make very small bears and bear friends. Mentioned it on a Facebook bear supplies group and found someone who would love to have it. So I boxed it up... sent a PayPal invoice for shipping... and will mail it tomorrow.  One more thing my daughters will not have to cope with....

I am now searching for a bear maker that would want my leftover mohair pieces...

Spent time this morning adding PayPal buttons to my site for the next online bear show ... April 10th - 13th...

 I don't have to plan or make dinner tonight. We are joining one of my daughters at Oak Grove's  Moocho restaurant! 

While de-cluttering mohair I found a piece big enough  for a not too small bear... so I traced one of my patterns and cut it out... ready for another sewing session. 

While it is warmer, the weather reports mention rain over the next few days. Actually I am  glad .. we are in a fire hazard area. And all the blooming trees and greening grass will be happy. Tomorrow will be quite warm...80+F. Easter will be cool and dry...

No King protest

It was COLD when we headed to Independence Square for the protest rally... wore my winter coat and later wished I had taken gloves. My hands got really cold holding up my sign. Bob and I met our daughter and her family and set up two folding chairs at the corner of Main and Truman Roads. Rally attendees were along all four corners . It's a four way stop so cars honked as they stopped.

Since we were so cold Bob and I left a little early When our daughter  left, she found a coffee shop of the Square ( so she could warm up) that was offering a protest discount!! She stopped at the Scandinavian shop and the chocolate shop too! Her husband ,son and daughter went to the game shop... need to support shops on the Square!

It was great to see so many who felt the same way we do! Funny thing... the non-honkers didn't even look at the protestors!!

 

 

 

 

Mouse stories

 My teacher/daughter has mice in her school! Her students were very fond of the very tiny one that would scurry around and disappear into a hole. Much to their dismay he was found dead and desiccated. Now there is a bigger mouse which showed himself yesterday after having gotten into some of the snacks stored in a cupboard..... and then my daughter found him under her feet which were under her desk.

This time she reported it to the school maintenance person... and a glue trap was put down. Glue traps are not very humane really... they just catch the mouse by its fur..... but no poison for kids to worry about. My daughter plans on doing a release if one is trapped in her classroom ... outside!

But I can beat her mice story.  My Mother's farmhouse  in Nova Scotia would get inundated with field  mice in the fall. The foundation was stone with lots of access holes . One of my last visits I could hear them scrabbling in the walls. If I ran my fingernails on the wall they would get really quiet. Anyway I went off and bought loads of snap-type traps and set them up all over. One haul netted 7 mice which I threw outside for the barn cats. ( empty traps the next day). I felt like the great white hunter. As we sit watching tv at night one could hear the traps snap!!

Also cleared out cupboards the mice had gotten into!! 

ongoing stuff

I guess I haven't been posting much... let's blame it on the fluctuating weather!

I bought a cedar planter from a local man on Marketplace... delivery was included. Thank goodness because it couldn't have fit in the Malibu! Anyway... the new planter led to getting rid of all the sticks and leaves on the deck and rearranging the seating. Necessary too because I am hoping people will want to sit outside on Easter! 

I am not sure what I will put in the planter... yet... but the tents etc. at the various garden centers are showing up ... and truck loads of plants are being unloaded and arranged. Since I don't want plants to die because of a cold snap I am forcing myself to wait...!

Last evening my craft/quilting group met...lots of talk ongoing. One just returned from a trip to Las Vegas . No gambling just family getting together...The local person told us a ghost story from a hotel her family stayed in... and about Winslow, Arizona and the song... and about going through Bisbee on Rt 66.

While talk was going on my daughter worked on a needle felting kit for a Kiwi, I worked on the mouse and others did their diamond art pictures!!

Bob and I decided to use a coupon we got in the mail for Subway sandwiches for dinner tonight so that was two nights I didn't have to cook...hooray

Looks like we will be joining my daughter and her husband at the Women's march in Independence on Saturday . I will take my "no kings" poster along. My s-i-l is bringing a folding chair for me.. standing for a long time is the "pits".

Definitely colder

Woke up this morning to a much colder day... yesterday when I awoke the house was 80 F. Nowhere near that this morning and the furnace turned on!!

Back to de-cluttering...reading and working on a little gray mouse...

dinner was leftover creamy tortellini soup, fresh   green beans and a green salad.. healthy? Temps down to the 30's at bedtime.

 

Another fantastic day

Bob, our daughters and I will head out sometime this summer back to Rochester to visit with Bob's brother. Bob and I decided that maybe staying in a hotel ,again, was not the best idea. So we have been walking our fingers through VRBO rentals.  

It has been fun. We have "saved" some interesting ones...looked at google maps discovering neighborhood areas such as Swillburg" and seeing just what our old home area looks like now. 

We haven't had much time to be tourists during our previous visits ... but we will this time. I think a stop at the Strong museum would be fun... our last visit was 50 or so years ago when it was VERY new. When Margaret Woodbury Strong's duplicate dolls, toys etc were auctioned off to provide funds for the museum it threw the collecting world in a tizzy.

Maybe the  George Eastman museum?   Highland Park with all its many lilacs ( there's been a lilac festival for 128 years)?... Memorial Art Gallery?

Back to my book... Stephen King's "Talisman". I finally finished it and feel a little guilty about all the time spent on it... just a little. 

My daughter and I went to our friend's 95 th birthday... fun time... the room at her retirement home was packed! Cake and ice cream and lots of visiting with outh attendees.

The day was great... but it has dropped temperature-wise to 45 F and windy. It will be cooler tomorrow and then jump back up to 90 F Wednesday... Crazy Missouri!