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... 

Happy Easter

 Today has been filled and we were busy. Our grand-son-in-law is converting from Mormon to Roman Catholic and was baptized last night during the Easter Vigil! This morning he had a shift on line ... picketing! He works at Lake City where they make bullets etc and his Union has gone on strike.

But he and our grand daughter made it to our Easter get together! Our grandson had to work a 9 hour shift so he wasn't there. ( His Mother - my daughter - did put together a plate full of food to be reheated when he gets home).

We all enjoyed the white hot dogs from Rochester's Schweigle, lots of deviled eggs, baked beans, carrot salad, potato salad and Easter candy!! Not much for left overs!! Bob did the  grilling !

After eating we sat outside on the deck... our daughter has an app on her phone for recognizing birds through their songs... so we had robins, blue jays, hawks, vultures... and more. 

Bob and I put the deck cushions away since the weatherman is talking rain or snow tomorrow night! Yuck!! But a sign of spring... the local vegetable farmer person mentioned on FaceBook that he has asparagus.. $3.00/lb. Will call tomorrow and find out if he has some!! Love really fresh veggies!

Birthday

 Today I reached 81... oh well... could be worse!!

We went to our Price Chopper to pick up the last few things for tomorrow. Bob went to Ace next door for Terro ( we had ants yesterday). We went early thinking things would be crowded. It wasn't!

Later... my younger daughter and her family stopped by.... birthday card, home made English muffins and home grown yellow grape tomatoes and a resin window hanging. Independence was having its 1st  Saturday of the month farmer's market ...I don't need stuff so this was great. The tomatoes are to die for...hot house grown.

We all sat around and talked... Our grandson works today and tomorrow so won't be able to come for Easter.. I'll make sure he gets some stuff. I think he is eager to try the white hots I ordered from Rochester, NY.

Boiled eggs and peeled them... will devil them tomorrow... think we are all set for tomorrow

Costco trip

 One of my hearing aids doesn't seem to be working. I replaced the battery with two new ones.. still a problem. I bought them through Costco, so called the hearing center and have an appointment for 4 this afternoon. It won't surprise me if it's "broken" because they are over 4 years old...

Made it to Costco for my appointment. Boy was it crowded! I'm glad we weren't going to need the check out aisles! The hearing aid person decided that the problem was wax and cleaned the unit. It seems  fine but he told me to call if it didn't continue to work!

Afterwards we were blocked into  our parking spot... cars waiting to find a spot to park in were lined up behind us! 

I expect tomorrow will be just as bad!