Thursday was a gorgeous day,sunny,and comfortable. I picked the last of the potatoes and any of the green tomatoes that survived the frost.I would've done it earlier,but this past week has given us rain off and on,so nothing was dry until then. Now the beds are empty and the plants are in the compost pile. It wasn't our best season for gardening. I didn't even can anything because we didn't get enough of anything to can,with perhaps the exception of the green beans,which I froze instead. Rick cleaned out the coop to make the girls a bit more comfy.
Yesterday it rained all day,and this AM it's still foggy and rainy,though the weather is suppose to clear by noontime. Rick,Brother B,and Zach are all going down to Dad Shaw's house to split some wood for him for the winter later on today.The turkey that Brother B got yesterday turned out to be a bit smaller than we had hoped-8 lbs- a bit too small for Thanksgiving,so we are going to eat it tomorrow for Sunday dinner.Even though my Mom is the only extra guest we have for dinner,just that one extra person would not leave enough for a filling meal.( It reminded me of the The Fabulous Beekman Boys episode where they kill a turkey for Thanksgiving and it's waaay too small for the number of people they have invited). We may still have to buy our turkey this year unless Rick can get one with his bow.
Since yesterday was not nice, I decided to attack one of our worst areas of clutter-the front of the file cabinet and the top of the printer. Clutter in a file cabinet,you may ask? Isn't a file cabinet suppose to keep papers in order? Well, yes,in the normal world. Here in my world,I have a tendency to put papers in the front of file cabinet drawer because I am too lazy to just take the extra thirty seconds to put it in the folder it belongs. Sigh.
Many things I just placed there while still in their envelopes,so I had a whole pile of envelopes to get rid of (some which I could save for the wood stove,others I had to throw out). That in it's self freed up some space. Now I everything is filed in their proper folders,and the top of the printer is clear. I also went through the folders to see if there was anything that was no longer needed,so I had a nice pile taken out from that,too. Some weight had been removed,from both the cabinet and from my shoulders! It is so gratifying to see stuff go away.
Our new kitty,who we named Mini Moxie ( or M& M)is doing very well.He slept with us last night, Today I am going to show him the litter box. Hopefully he can climb into it,as he is still quite small.
Have a fabulous day on this Fabulous Planet!
First of all it's a good thing I am not responsible for hunting for our turkey for Thanksgiving lol I would have thought that turkey was HUGE because of all those fluffed up feathers :) I had better stick with the frozen variety with the lb weight clearly marked. Great job on decluttering the file cabinet. It is jobs like this that make running our homes so nice. Everything is easier to access, find and file when it is neat and tidy. If one thing is in front to file then the pile grows quicker than I would like. Usually that pile is beside my computer :( I'm sorry your garden did not produce well this year. Everyone had such a harsh summer here in the states. Maybe we will have bumper crops next summer!!! Hugs Amy :)
ReplyDeleteWe thought she was bigger than 8 lbs too,she certainly looked it! Oh,well.
ReplyDeleteI love looking at my computer desk and not seeing a pile of papers,and actually being able to have room to move my folders in the cabinet back and forth more freely.
Gardening was,overall,a bust for us this year. Next year will be better!!! Hugs!
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