cool wet gray day

 I woke today to a cold wet gray day... the kind of day that vegging out seems to cry for.

So I started with reading and working on another bear! I even spent some time on MNSNow... We haven't been watching must TV news lately... too upsetting.

Our daughter is having trouble with her washing machine... something to do with the tub's balance so Bob is off to see what needs to be done. They both watched a UTube video and think it won't be too bad to fix.

He fixed it... found the tub had shifted when the machine was moved. After he moved it to where the tub belonged... it worked. They ran two loads just to be sure!! 

 

Rain... cooler..foggy

It rained last night... not a lot but things were wet. It was also cooler and later in the day it became foggy. Supposedly we will have more tomorrow.

I went grocery  shopping and Bob tagged along. I think I have everything for Sunday's get together. 

The off to the library to pick up Bob's "hold" items... when we got home Bob settled down with our taxes... again... It would help if things didn't change annually. I puttered around.. 

Dinner was another new recipe... ground chicken burgers with spinach and feta. They were great!! Green salad on the side...

 

warm house

When I got up this morning the thermometer read 79F... no heat ...no nothing... just from the heat outside yesterday! It looks like today will be just as hot until the "storms" move in. The rest of this week will not be great!!

This area needs the rain. We have gotten  grass fire warnings ! And I see way too many building fires ( houses and strip malls) on Facebook. Not just little fires... whole structures gone!

Today was busy... laundry... washing floors and so on... 

 

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!!