Hello friends and happy Friday. I am back at work a bit but still working from home a lot too.  

The weather today was just perfect. Temps were in the low 70’s and bright blue skies. A light southeast wind was blowing just enough to make the air feel warm and soft. I decided I needed a drive.

I started out at the Flag Memorial we have in our small town of Madisonville and from there to some backroads to see all the spring greenery. For all of you local folks the other pictures were taken on Ballplay road, Scenic River Road and Fairview Road.   My mama used to say the best thing about spring was all the different shades of green that you see everywhere. Just look at these pictures and you will see how true it is.

Always remember

Love your day your way!!!

Hello friends and happy Thursday? are you finding that the days are sort of running together?  And unless you are homeschooling children have you noticed how quiet it is?  It usually is quiet at our house but it seems like just knowing that you are not going to see anyone or go anywhere makes the silence even louder.

 

I have been working from home and  getting a lot of things done at home that I don’t usually have time for.  It’s sometimes the little things that never seem to get taken care of and when you have extra time on your hands, at home,  they do.

I have been doing a lot of cooking.  We haven’t had take out in weeks.  I have to say I feel better not eating a lot of take out.  I have cooked a lot of meals.  Tuesday  I made an amazing meat loaf and today we had the leftovers for sandwiches.  Well it will actually last for a few days.  I made sourdough bread and cookies.  I needed to use up some milk in the fridge before it went bad so I made a coconut cream pie.  I still had more than half a gallon of milk that needed to be used so I am making chocolate pudding to put in the refrigerator.   This is probably not a good thing but I just can’t stand to think of anything going to waste.

 Homemade sourdough bread.

The morning air is soft and I sit outside and drink coffee and then eat my lunch outside as well. It is so wonderful!!!  Everything seems to have slowed down.   Every time I sit down the fur babies clamor for a spot on my lap. I hate the reason that we are forced to stay at home but yet I am loving being at home. I am respecting and enjoying the quiet. I feel humble.

  Scruffy loves having mommy out on the deck with him. 

   A perfectly beautiful day.  Only about 72 degrees and the air feels so soft.

Scruffy and I have been doing many walks throughout the day.   We love it!!!  We enjoy checking out all the flowering trees and shrubs.

    The Dogwoods are blooming and they are beautiful!!

   The Butterflies are everywhere

         I think this is a hawk feather. 

  I have been knitting and just finished these socks.  I am getting a lot of knitting done.

        My irises are blooming!!!

I hope you are hanging in there and enjoying being at home as much as I am.  Let’s just wait this out and do the best we can and things will get better.  I truly believe this.

Always remember

Love your day your way!!!

 

 

 

 

 

I feel strange writing this post about making plans. HA!!!   With COVID-19 many many plans have been changed. I am sad thinking about the plans that have been in the making for months, years or even a lifetime. Yes these plans have been changed.

Graduations have been cancelled, weddings and vacations have been postponed. Life itself, it feels like, has been put on hold.

Case in point my nephew Tyler was supposed to graduate from High School this year.  It has been canceled.  There may be some type of service later but the initial graduation service will not be held. I ask him if this bothered him and he said ” not at all”. I said “well it bothers me and your mom and your grandmother”.  Ahhh youth they seem to handle things so much better than us oldsters.

Then I think about the people who are fighting for their lives or who have lost loved ones because of this virus. I am sure they would love to have only a disruption or cancellation in their lives.

Anyway, think back to a time before COVID-19 and think about things getting back to normal, whatever that may be, and ask: Do you like to plan things?  Do you always have a plan or do you just let things happen as they may?

I think I am as spontaneous as the next person.  My husband not so much.  He doesn’t like to have things sprung on him at the last minute.  I don’t mind having that happen, well most of the time anyway.  I have noticed though, if I don’t do some type of planning I tend to let things slide and not get them done.

For instance, if I have a day off with nothing to do except clean house and buy groceries, that will be all I get done.  If I make a “plan” to do a little more, even if the plan is in my own mind, then I tend to do that.  I discovered if I leave things to chance then there is a good chance it won’t get done. Do you ever do that?  Do you find you have a limited amount of time to do something and there is just a small window of opportunity to do it? And you think ohhh just one more episode of this show I am watching, just one more chapter of my book, just another row of knitting, well you get the picture.  And then before you know it the time to do what you needed to do has come and gone. Whether this is by chance or unintentionally by choice.

If someone wants to get together on my day off. I may be about 70% on the fence about whether or not to do it.   Yes I know I will have fun and I need to get out of the house but as my day off approaches, hanging out at home looks pretty good too.  If I pick up my phone and message them and concrete the plan I know I will do it.  Once that is done I am a whole lot less likely to bail on them. I have made a commitment.

So do you like to plan things? or just let things come what may?  is that being spontaneous or unprepared?   Just asking.

Always remember

Love your day your way!!

Good morning friends, it is 5:00 AM.  I am awake and believe it or not this is when I do some of my best thinking.  If I have had good sleep that is, well actually I do some of my best thinking at 5:00 AM even if I haven’t had good sleep because I have so many things racing around in my mind. Usually this is when things stick.

I do have a lot of things on my mind as you can well imagine. I am sure you probably do too.   I am still going in to work.  My job is not an essential job, it is tourism related, so of course that is not essential.   But we have to have someone in the building for security purposes which is essential.  Me and my co-workers are taking turns going in.  We don’t stand around and chat or anything like that.  One person is leaving as another comes in.  It is quite lonely.   That Is the only place I go other than to pick up groceries once a week or so.

Our small town is never what you would call crowded by any stretch of the imagination. But yesterday as I was driving through it looked like a ghost town and this was 8:00 AM!!!
I am proud that so many people are staying in and working from home and just staying put.

My mind drifts through the events of the day before.  I started knitting a sock, dropped off supplies at the village where my mother in law lives,  this is a new experience.  We have to leave the supplies outside the front of the building and they are picked up by staff and put in quarantine for a couple of days before they are given to the resident. I did have to make a stop by the Vet Clinic to get flea and tick meds for Scruffy and Kitty Kitty. This is another new experience because of COVID-19. I had to call the clinic.  They took my payment over the phone and handed the bag out the door to me when I arrived along with a little receipt for almost $200.00. Ouch!!! That is probably why my mind is racing especially at a time when work lay offs are looming. But who am I kidding I would buy food for the babies before I would for myself. Once at home  I continued doctoring Molly’s ears, talked on the phone to my sister, cooked dinner, watched some TV with my husband. A typical day.

All of these things are normal every day things well except the different way of delivering and picking up supplies. But yet everything seems different.

I think I find solace in the little day to day happenings it makes me feel that some of the familiar is still there.

Anyway just some thoughts that I have at 5:00 AM. Time to get this usually, unusual day started.

   A little foggy this morning but a beautiful sunrise

Always remember

Love your day your way!!!