There’s been a lot going on around here. I guess…another fast week has gone by so there must be something going on.
We have left them out in the living room, and the cats have been sleeping in them off and on. Hopefully they will continue to like them once that door gets closed up.
Have a great weekend everyone!
If I didn’t know better, I’d think it was spring out there. Today we had a high in the low 40s and tomorrow we are supposed to be close to 50 degrees. It even is starting to smell like spring, as the ground is not as frozen with these warm sunny days. It’s so early yet though – my logical side knows that we have plenty of time yet for some of that white stuff to grace us with a winter coating. I will continue to enjoy every one of these springlike days, until the real season of spring comes along.
Our days are chock full of activity, but I can’t really list what we’re getting accomplished with our time. Of course, work takes up its usual majority of the week, and now that we have added five hours/week at the gym…well, I am still adapting to that. But we are determined to stick with it, as we are both feeling so much better. Even with only 2 and a half weeks under our belt.
Come spring, we are going to have our work cut out for us. Because most of this stuff still has to find its new home.
We have a lot to do in 244 days!!
It’s raining! And our high today is supposed to be 51 degrees! Wow!
This was last January around this time. That is our garage in the background behind the snow.
This is the scene outside our front window today.
Guess which one I like better?
I made contact yesterday with a potential realtor for our house sale. I heard about her last fall from a member who came into the credit union, and was telling me about her. She was very pleased with this realtor’s work. So I emailed her, and got back a very quick response. We plan to meet with her in April to show her around the house and see what recommendations she will make about the house preparation.
This weekend we are getting back to work on the house after a little over a week off. Harry is going to put in the new floor in the downstairs bathroom, and I am going to work on doing some more sorting and pitching. I am working on one room at a time now and trying to completely get that room done before I move on. So the downstairs guest room is on my agenda for this weekend.
That’s what the days seem like lately. I have good intentions of writing blog entries as close to daily as possible, but the time gets filled up with stuff, and before I know it, several days have gone by!
So, let me catch up on recent events…
Sunday dawned as a picture perfect day with a clear blue sky. SO much nicer than the gray day we had on Saturday. In the morning, the roads were still wet, but by afternoon they had dried for our trip home to NY.
Schaun opened his presents, and once the “boring” ones were out of the way, proceeded to have a good time with the fun gifts. I guess I should probably say that both Schaun and Papa had a good time playing while I amused myself by capturing all the moments.
All too soon, we had to be hitting the road for the trip home.
On the home front, we have been spending time once again at the local fitness center. My company gave all of its employees a one year membership to Planet Fitness as a holiday gift, and Harry and I interpreted that as a sign that we should get ourselves moving and maybe even get in shape. We set up a schedule for ourselves and have been going to the gym for an hour five days a week. We are both feeling better already just two weeks into our new routine, but a side effect has been that our already short weekday evenings are now even shorter.
The weather has been pretty nice. We did have a little cold snap and the snow last weekend, but today the high was in the mid 40s. It felt like spring. Our snow has just about melted away again. We both have spring fever already, and are looking forward to our first trip of the season, which is now 115 days away!
We haven’t had much time to work on the house over the past week and a half or so, but this weekend are planning to get back to it.
We WERE lucky though, that we didn’t get much snow.But the roads were wet and sloppy in places and it was one of those gray kinds of traveling days.
I did take several pictures as we were traveling…but they all look the same…with no colors other than a mixture of grays and whites.
It was worth it though.
Today its time to open presents from Grammy and Papa.
Along with the weekends, this seems to be my best day for blogging recently. (Even though its sometimes a pain to work on Saturday, I do love having a day off in the middle of the week.) The work days of the week just seem to go along the same way all the time…work, home, dinner, bed. With a schedule like that, there’s not too much very interesting to write about. Don’t want you all to fall asleep reading!
So anyway, it’s not going to take long to catch everybody up!
I am happy to report that we are still snowless for the most part. We did have a huge deep freeze over the weekend, followed by about an inch of the white stuff overnight on Monday. But yesterday warmed back up into the high 30s so the majority of it has melted away again. I don’t know if we can actually make it through the whole winter without another big snowstorm, but I’d be ok with it. The ten day forecast has a lot of highs in the 30s and even 40s, so it sure has been a mild winter so far.
We finished the upstairs bathroom closet on Monday. It looks really nice with the wire shelving as opposed to the wood boards that were there before. We also weeded out what was in there, and threw several bags away. I also started weeding out the kitchen cupboards. Thankfully we have done this once, last February, when we did the kitchen remodel. So the first level of culling has been done already, and now I am working on the second. I have already filled two boxes with glasses and holiday mugs that we never use.
This weekend we will be traveling to MA for our last Christmas celebration of the season! Nothing like making a holiday last!
We had a fun time checking out all of the possible combinations.
Then we headed into the dressing room to try all the outfits on.
After picking out the winners, we headed for a yummy lunch at Chili’s.
Hannah discovered that she likes mozzarella sticks.
We had a great time shopping, and after taking Hannah back home, we are now settled down watching the Giants play the Green Bay Packers.
GO GIANTS!!
