Here is a little of what I've been up to:
I I really don't know where time goes! I'm convinced that it goes faster every year (how do they do that?) It seems like yesterday that I was just anticipating spring and all of a sudden we're planning the 4th of July! Busy, my life is busy! And happy!
I had to share the small harvest of this years lilacs with everyone. Lilacs are my absolute favorite flower. I hope heaven is scented with lilacs, surely it must be. I look forward all winter to the lilacs blooming. I have about 6 huge lilac bushes planted alongside my garage and I start watching about mid April to see them start to bud. Usually the first and second week of May are an olfactory heaven as I can be found several times a day sticking my whole face into my lilac bushes. We had a late frost this year and the lilac bushes paid the price. I was able to salvage about 3 handfuls of blooms to bring in the house. I usually have lilac bouquets in every single room for two weeks. Not so this year. My paltry little harvest was pathetic. However, I enjoyed them probably more than ever for their scarcity. I just wish you could smell that picture!
After the demise of the lilacs I was really looking forward to getting my hands down in the dirt and planting my flowers! Austin, most probably from osmosis, loves to plant flowers too! He's every bit as good as I am at it and I never hesitate to let him help me. He was so cute explaining to his friend, Daniel, how you sprinkle the Osmocote into the hole and then you "tickle the roots" before planting the flower. I wanted a splash of color under the Lacy Leaf Japanese Maple tree in the front of the house and when I tried to get under it to plant the impatiens I got scratched all to pieces. Austin to the rescue! He and Daniel fit under there justfine and they did a fine job of planting them!
And THIS my dear readers is the BEST DARN DADDY IN THE WORLD! He's mine, you can't have him. Those of you who have read my journal for a while will remember the picture of my partially stripped deck from last summer's hail storm. I worked on stripping that deck all last summer. It didn't get finished! I have been advised very strongly by my husband that I should just forget stripping it and put more of the horribly ugly stain that I already had messed up and put on it in the first place! Actually, he was right. That is exactly what I should have done. But I just could not bring myself to do it. Our deck is quite large and I cannot tell you the hours I've spent with a "so called deck stain stripper" (yeah riiiiight) working on one square foot at a time. An exercise in futility to the extreme!! One day a couple of weeks ago, after working on said deck for an entire HOT day, Jimmy again tried to convince me that I should just give in and restain it with the stain already on it. In absolute defeat and exhaustion I sat there looking at the expanse of unstripped deck and admitted to him and to myself that I would do that. Then to my own surprise I found tears running down my face! That's right internet, I cried. I cried over my deck! I cried in absolute defeat.What a wimp I am!! Then THE BEST DARN DADDY IN THE WHOLE WORLD came to visit me the next day and he asked me what I was going to do about my deck. I told him I was giving up and was going to just put that ugly old stain back on it. He said he would help me get the old stain off and that he'd help me sand it and get it the way I want it. He showed up as promised with his handy, dandy, super-powered power washer and commenced to making me a very happy gal! He literally spent the entire day helping me get the stain off my deck. Gosh, I love him! I'll tell you in another post very soon what ELSE he did for me last week! He's up for sainthood in case you're wondering!
Here is the half and half picture. We now have to rent a big drum sander and get it ready to stain. As you can see in this picture, the old stain was more like a paint than a stain. Hence the reason I hated it. I'd love to have the guy that sold me that stupid "stain" here to help me make it right.
Patrick's girlfriend, Amber, graduated from Hair School on Friday. She's very glad to be out of school and is anticipating her state boards. She is the only hairdresser I've ever been to that has colored my hair the way I want it. She gives great haircuts too.
And here is my sweet guy, Tucker, all worn out after playing with the new Boxer puppy from next door today. They are so cute together and he's so gentle when he plays with her. He will sit in the yard for the longest time and watch for her to come out to play. Tooo cute!! Below is Sadie playing Queen of the mountain.
Ohhh! And the juice? Well I know you're all dying to hear about the JUICE! My business is growing like crazy and I'm reaching goals. Hopefully, by the beginning of Fall I will be able to quit my job at the hospital and devote all of my time to MonaVie. It's a blast and it gives me my "nurse fix". I can help more people with MonaVie than I can at the hospital giving people drugs to cover up their symptoms. I LOVE MONAVIE and if you haven't experienced what it can do for you yet you're really missing out.
Sooo, that's what I've been up to lately internet, what have you been doing?
(Oh, and if you're wondering why I use such a large type, it's because I go blind trying to read journals with small letters! I'm old people, I'm old!
