Trip to the PO ,,, and so on

After doing all the usual morning stuff like getting dressed, emptying the dishwasher and breakfast we loaded up the car with the few bear boxes and the Priority Mail no longer used boxes. Ans headed out to the PO.

Lots of street construction going on... new gutters and sidewalks. But the traffic was surprisingly light.

There are still some Priority Mail boxes and the attic... so I will put them in our IKEA blue bags and bring them done... ready for another trip to the PO. Did this plus rearranged the ULine boxes I use  for  USPS Ground Advantage.

Keep your eyes on spam calls you receive... there seems to be an increase in them recently .. 

LATER... 

We just had a bunch on nasty thunderstorms ..plus just over the border into Kansas , they had three tornadoes! We were on a tornado watch..so we prepared. Turned off the computers... kept a watchful eye on radar... listened for sirens. If they had gone off we would have grabbed our cells, kindles and bottles of watch and headed downstairs to our "safe spot".  But everything sort of petered out!

Remember the 100 postcards Bob and I filled out?  They have to go out into the mailbox on Wednesday! Wonder what out mailperson will think of that! 

 

 

Tax time... etc

 Yes... Bob finished our taxes - done and submitted... and last night we took care of the annuity I have which makes money from my bear profits. Its a KEO (?) with Knights of Columbus.Its not huge but it's been fun watching it grow...

Looks like today will be cool and occasionally wet. My lilac bush just below the windows of our computer room  is covered with blooms! If I opened the windows I could smell them!!

When I was at the PO yesterday I asked one of the clerks what we could do with all the Priority Mail boxes we no longer use. USPS now has  Ground Advantage . It's cheaper and still has all the Priority Mail advantages.. Only thing, We have to provide the box and can't use theirs. So ... what to do with theirs. I was told I could bring them there...So I spent time lugging down boxes from where we stored them... the attic.

Another trip to the PO tomorrow.

It was wet off and on all day and after I de-cluttered the boxes I worked on a bear. I also de-cluttered the refrigerator by serving leftovers for dinner.. chili, pasta salad, asparagus and fruited jello!!  

Sorry for the mailperson

Bob felt sorry for the mailperson...he would have to make multiple trips to pick up my boxes and put them into his vehicle. So we went to the PO and dropped them off instead.

Decided to drop off our glass recycle items on the way... There is a Ripple Glass container next to our grocery store... glass only. The crushed glass goes to local beer and liquor distilleries for their bottles.

More bears to box up...

Our local Saturday farmer's market opened this morning for the season. Our daughter went... we will go next Saturday.  

Watching

 I have been spending the day watching for sales from the online bear show... and then boxing the sold ones up and making them ready for our mailperson to pick up tomorrow. Thank goodness for the USPS "Click and ship" labels! And thank goodness for a mailperson who is willing  to get out of his vehicle and come to our front steps for the boxes!

In between this I have been getting the ingredients ready for a new dinner recipe... a creamy chicken,mushroom,pasta etc. dish... The recipe calls for lots of everything which means leftovers! If it works out.. I will figure out a way to halve things next time.  Bob gave it a two thumbs up..

.We ate our dinner in our recliners in front of the TV...didn't want to miss any of the Artemis splash down. Tried the NGeo one first. It was too much ( CBS News was its partner) so we switched to CNN which was better. We enjoyed the guests ( former astronauts) who added their experiences to the talk.  

Bob finished our taxes! Yay! He had to print out the whole thing( lots and lots of pages) for Missouri and put it in the mailbox. Federal can be uploaded online.... much easier...

 

 

Round errand trip again

After Bob received a text yesterday from Target's CVS pharmacy we decided to head out this morning...First to pickup my prescriptions from Target...Next to the library to return books . Then to our Neighborhood WalMart to pickup things on our list!!  I think I have finally mastered the new layout .. remodeling leads to confusion. Bob told the checkout person that now we have it figured out WalMart can remodel anew. Not sure if she thought that was funny!

The fresh produce was great.. green beans, shallots, cutie oranges, bananas, spinach! 

Worked on my newest bear and finished the book I was reading... Temperature has been great..windy though.. it's still 72 F. There is weatherman talk of a storm tonight and tomorrow.Maps show a possibility of the storm going north of us which would be  nice!

Tomorrow I will be hovering at the computer. The online bear show starts at 10am and runs till Monday at 5pm. 

Keeping busy

After a not so great night's sleep I  decided to keep busy... even so I dropped off to sleep several times. 

Found some smaller leftover pieces of mohair... a creamy off-white and a slightly darker piece .Cut out my baby bear pattern and started working on it. 

I had finished the icey pink mohair bear yesterday and today I made a collar from a scrap of embroidered cotton fabric.

Read  a bit...and made a new sweet potato recipe for dinner. I used two huge sweet potatoes... next time I'll buy smaller ones and not use so many!!  LOL

Bob thinks our taxes are finished... he's reviewed them several times.. still not quite ready to submit them!

 

 

Asparagus

 Called the asparagus grower at 9 to see if he had some!! He did, so Bob and I put on our shoes and headed out. He is in Bates City... about 20 minutes away.

I-70 is in the midst of being widened both East and West and as we drove to Bates City there were many many workers hard at it. The huge machine that lays three lanes of concrete  at once was going to be at work shortly.

 MoDOT demolished a bridge over I-70 and there were workers on the new replacement bridge looking like they needed safety harnesses to me!

So an interesting and successful errand! 

Texted my daughter that I had asparagus...she is excited...hope she'll stop by on her way home from school.

When we returned home Bob went back to work on our taxes...