Stuff and Clutter!

I posted for the year end (2011) my disaster areas, today after counting the surfaces with clutter on them, something must be done.  Ten surfaces (tables, desks, etc.) in the kitchen dining room, living and bedroom.  This doesn't count my sewing room because every time I organize it a bomb goes off and disaster reins again!  After counting the mess I immediately followed up with cleaning off two of the surfaces.  Not only do I not get help but when something is put away, a gremlin comes along and put the stuff right back where I cleared it off of (kitchen)!  Two more surfaces do exist but they belong to another 100%, the ten belong to me or are a community mess.  I also have one more shelf in the kitchen to clean out for better storage.

I have been making Kombucha for 2 months now and have a good balance of brewing now, it is giving me a 2 cup bottle a day to drink without flavoring it.  I like it very much this way and enjoy the hint of apple and sourness, refreshing!

Tilling

Spent the afternoon and evening at my daughter's.  We tilled up a good size garden for summer planting and it was exhausting.  It was too warm to do such heavy work but it must get done.   My shoulders, back and hands ache but it feels good to be out in the soil.  We need to do another pass before taking the tiller back, then out goes the squashes, corn seed, beans!  The raised beds are waiting for warmer nights to happen (soon). The girls made mud pies in a little bucket and had a great (old-fashioned) time.  Must go get ready because after gardening, I must head to the racetrack!

A bit of heaven!

I went to see my parents for a few days and it is so hard to come home (they live on 2 acres of green beauty!)  and watched hummingbirds for hours, they are so fascinating.  What is so interesting is you can stand right by a feeder and they will still come for food!  It's so calm, quiet and slow.  I sometimes question how a city kid became such a country adult?  A morning walk around the properties with my Dad is a great way to start the day (the road goes around a 20 acre area that equals a 1 mile walk) and an afternoon stroll under the canopy of the forest.  My mom cooked a rack of lamb just because she knows how much I like it (the rack was big and too much for 2 people, it seemed melted like butter when chewing and smelled good AND tasted better.  She sent the rest home for my daughter (she loves lamb too).  E and the girls came for one day to spend some quiet time, the girls spent a lot of time wandering the woods, playing and searching for treasures.