Friday's Finish

This morning after breakfast I went outside and finished pruning the roses. I did not do the two by the back steps to the basement as I was not sure how I wanted them to look. I also hooked up the charger to the Jeep. I figured that even if I could not drive it I could run it for a while once a week or so.

I also cut the rose buds and put them into a couple vases, I thought that if I left them outside they probably would not bloom anyway. While I was back in the rose garden I noticed a blackberry bush coming through the fence, so I got my shovel and dug it out.

Then I got my pruners and went to work on the mugo pine. I mostly cut the dead branches out of it although I did cut out some of the green branches to give it a little better shape. I am going to dig it out eventually, but just not right now.

I was getting tired, so I went inside, cleaned up and made myself some lunch. There was just a little of the ground turkey, rice and pea dish that Kathleen made the other night, so I finished that and added a can of sardines to it.

Kathleen left to go grocery shopping, she asked me to go, but I was too tired from working in the yard the last couple of days. While she was gone, Aaron stopped by to return some of my things so I got to see his new car. It looked pretty nice and is more practical then his old car.

Kathleen came home around 1700 with lots of groceries, so I helped her unload the car and put things away. She was tired from shopping so she heated up a can of minestrone soup for me and she had a can of bean soup.

Well, it is hard to believe that this is the last weekend in November, but it is! I think that I have run out of energy, so I am just going to call it a night and say good night.

Thursday's Thanksgiving

Well, I actually slept in until after 0800. After putting the dishes away and putting more into the dishwasher, I went outside and raked leaves. It was still pretty windy, but there were not that many leaves to contend with.

Once I had the leaves up, I decided that I would mow, so I got out my Honda mower as with all the raking some of the grass the does not get cut very close to the ground was sticking up. It also gave me to try to run the rest of the gas out of the mower. Well, I finished both front, back and sides of our lawn then I mowed my neighbor’s lawn and the driveway strip of my other neighbor's next to our fence.

After doing all that I still had some gas left, so I mowed our front lawn again, this time going in the opposite direction giving it a diamond effect. I still had about a quarter of a tank left, but I decided to put the mower away and maybe do it some other time.

I had not gone anywhere in my jeep lately, so I got my key and went to start it to charge the battery a little...too late! I thought about pulling the battery and putting it on my charger, but I decided to wait until I could drive it if it were charged.

It was so sunny out that I wanted to stay outside as long as I could, so I got out my pruners and started giving my roses their winter pruning. I left a couple rose buds and flowers and I will need to go back and finish them up. I got all the roses in the two big rose gardens in the back yard and a couple along the driveway done.

My barrel was full so I stopped, knowing that I needed to do a couple of the others later anyway. As I was doing the roses along the driveway I noticed a five foot hawthorn tree growing, so I got out my shovel and dug it out.

By this time I was getting pretty tired, so I went into the house and got cleaned up and made myself a baby spinach leaf salad. After putting my bowl into the dishwasher, I went in and went through the paper. I think it was one of the largest papers that I can remember.

After finishing looking through the paper and the ads, I took a shower and got ready to go to Alyssa and Dan's for Thanksgiving dinner. When we got there Andrea, John and Brandon were there and Alyssa and Andrea were working on putting the finishing touches on dinner.

Aaron, Tami and their girls arrived a short time latter. They came in their new vehicle, but by now it was too dark out to see it. After a while longer Dan and the children came from Dan's Mom's and Chucky showed up as well. Toni did not come as she had to get up for the early sale at JC Pennies.

The food was all so good that I could have eaten a lot more, but I just took one helping of everything...well except for Alyssa's yams and Kathleen's stuffing. I needed to have a little extra of those two. Andrea had made a couple of pies, a pumpkin and a lemon meringue, but everyone was so stuffed that we did not even slice them.

Normally after our big family meals I would wash the dishes, but this year because of my wrist being in the splint I was not able to do it. We finally made it home and it was almost 2200. I was just a little too tired to do my blog then, so you are getting it now instead.

I hope that everyone had a really Happy Thanksgiving!