What are you up to today? This week?

[CheckMouse]

We're in Nebraska and our state got hit pretty hard with the tornadoes a couple days ago. The heaviest damage was to towns south of us, although one came pretty close to the outskirts of our town. We had sirens blaring, high wind, rain, and some hail -- but no tornadoes. 
Our little Shih Tzu was not liking it one bit! Sticking real close to her humans! 
I'm from Washington, and I think I'd rather take my chances with earthquakes! 

[rodentraiser]

I'll take earthquakes over tornadoes any day. I was raised in Minnesota and we went to the basement many a time.

I am so ruing the day I decided to have a lawn.

The dirt is spread, the soil is seeded, and I'm stuck trying to water almost an acre of land every day. I'm supposed to water three times a day for an hour each time. The reality is I'm only watering once a day for two hours at a time. I simply can't walk that far to move hoses and sprinklers otherwise. I tried using my little roller walker and, well, those things can get stuck in the mud just like big cars can. The soil is 4" deep and it smells like manure. You should see my shoes.

Tomorrow I'm giving myself a day off. Instead of watering, I'm getting two more hoses and two more sprinklers - that's a total of five each. Once they're set up, all I'll have to do is flip switches on the faucets. I'm hoping in a month or so I can reduce the watering by half. We'll see.

Someone and their brother was going to help me move out of my storage unit and the brother flaked, so all we were able to move was my sofa and my hutch. The guy that spread the grass seed carried the sofa into my shed and I am so happy about that, since it was sitting outside and the cat had decided it was her scratching post. This guy also managed to open all the windows in my trailer except one, which I was also happy about. It got into the mid-80s on Friday and Saturday, so very warm. Naturally, that was the day I had to start watering.

it looks like my gall bladder needs to come out. Now I just need to call Medicare and find out how much money I'm responsible for. If it's too much, I may just have to live with occasional pain.

Tomorrow it's supposed to be much cooler and I can start on weeding and getting my flower beds in order. After that, I may actually start working on a dollhouse. Keep your fingers crossed!

 

Have any of you guys seen the Northern Lights?

[FurMama]

6 hours ago, rodentraiser said:

 

I am so ruing the day I decided to have a lawn.

Have any of you guys seen the Northern Lights?

I saw them on the local morning news. I was too pooped from battling the backyard this weekend to go outside. My yard is interfering with my dollhouse time! I also distinctly remember saying I wasn't going to grow a garden this year. Good luck Kelly, your watering set up sounds like a winner. Hope all works out for your surgery. 

[havanaholly]

We have also been watching the aurora on the news, since we have woods on our north side, plus overcast that finally turned stormy last night & today.

[CheckMouse]

We've only seen the Northern lights on the news, and on Facebook pictures shared by friends. They've been seen here in Nebraska, but I only saw pictures. We have a lot of trees around our neighborhood so don't see a big expanse of sky.

Kelly, you're brave with that big lawn! We're finally getting some yard work done, if our loan goes through, and I want all the grass in our big back yard GONE! Hubby's health is going downhill fast and dementia is increasing -- I don't need to be caring for a lawn anymore! We'll do potted plants, little "islands" and pathways, and ground cover. No grass! Front yard still has grass and is small enough to keep mowed. The only grass I really like is on my dollhouse yards! 

I'm now learning how to maintain the car -- pretty tough after the easy life of 50+ years with a mechanic. Hubby can't take care of the car anymore.