Sunday road trip

another crazy day in my world

4:00am  -- start a load of laundry, a cup of coffee and a cookie .. 

        read 2 newspapers, and the obits

5:00am  -- start a mini nap

7:00am  -- on the road for the office -- gas in Jeep, milk for Marie, Jeep thru car wash

   

    trash, recycling, cardboard stashing, tax returns, payroll, vac'ing office, tossing stuff out, more tax returns -- weird stuff .... transplanted two plants -- aired out the garage .. 

3:00pm -- leave office for home -- always have tote bag of work

3:15 - road trip to the cabin for attitude adustment

4:00 - another load of laundry and a disorganized farm client

5:30 -- pizza .... 
6:00 -- back to cave and disorganized farm client -- finally got it to reconcile

8:30 -- upstairs to the laptop and what not

I'm ready for bed.

the neighbors paddle boat looks kind of funny in the snow .. the finish contest was happening at the public landing so there was a bit of ATV SXS traffic on the ice .. evidently touring the lake on your ATV and not falling in is fun .. argh.

I think she misses us .. snow drifts across the back and the front -- but mushy and melting didn't spot any critter "treats" - always a good thing. 51' on the thermometer (in the living room) ... we leave the heat on -- set at 50'

 

blooms

one of the family flower arrangements from Fred's visitation 

simply stunning

lilies, liatris, bird of paradise, bells of Ireland, roses, cabbage, snapdragons, digitalis, bromiliads -- and a variety of greens .. they were at least 3' tall and 4' wide .. had to be heavy .. 

but simply stunning ..

I left my phone in the truck, thanks to Lynette for the picture .. 

Dean P did the arrangement  -  lifetime friend

it's time for bed ... I rolled for town at 5:15 .. I had messed up on a payroll Monday night before leaving so I needed quiet to fix it .. 

I think we're about to get bombed with work .. it's been remarkably slow .. not sure what's up -- but documents are slow ... 

 

February 1st .. already

 

I can't tell you when I took this picture -- November 2022 -- anyway I digress -- see the giant post it hanging on my door -- that's one of my planners -- it's large enough to see from a distance ...  I am a creature of habit -- I update it weekly -- faithfully update it ... always update it -- I'm lost without out it .. sometimes it's a scrum board ...

and this morning's update - I forgot Wednesday .. again .. all winter long I keep getting midweek days mixed up .. argh .. literally forgot Wednesday ..

the OCD in me fixed it ...

left the office early for Cousin Fred's wake .. no where to park, went to kwik trip for the basics in life and then parked on the street and walked down ... 

75 minutes later I was thru the line and when I left the line was out the door and they were still circling and looking for parking spaces .. it was a wonderful sea of people -- the boys were overwhelmed -- a lot of love was shared ... 

so the homework and I are having a love / hate relationship this evening.  i worked on the disjointed mixed up client all morning long .. literally -- office tidying -- snow shoveled - or most of it .. 

I am about to start prepping for the cleaning lady -- because we clean before she comes 

argh.

Friday Nights in the Cave

bird quilt .. I really like the colors in this quilt

Wednesday or Thursday night from the cabin cam  -- 

One more night of subzero temps

I'm so over the cold --

Truck got fixed today -- $300 "electronic throttle" .. condensation, varnish, gunk .. so "you need to drive more in the winter" .. what a funny guy ...

I spent my night on some easy returns, dishwasher running, 2nd load of laundry perking and I'm about to start on the next project pile ... piles are the story of my life 

thinking warm thoughts 

 

memories ...

Cousin Fred giving us a tour of his lake front property during the 2010 fall floods .. it was 16 years ago .. where does the time go .. I was running for the County Board seat -- Fred was giving tours .. 

A lot of life since I took this pix.  I was 50 .. Fred was 64.  Fred was at a trade show in Florida last week and got sick -- and while prepping for surgery had a heart attack.  God has plans - it isn't ours to question .. or so I keep telling myself.  

keep the rain, sun and beautiful weather coming - we'll plant the blooms, veggies and fun stuff ....

wth

   I'm just going leave this hang out here ...

   I'm struggling -- the events of the day -- horrifying -- simply horrifying .. 

seriously ....

Did ya hear?  It's freaking cold outside   -17 per the F150 on the inbound commute this morning.  I was an idiot, I started the truck and then walked over and fed the barn cats ... walked over  -- 

I had a meeting in Lower North on Wednesday -- it was snowy and salty on the way over and it had warmed up enough to be sloppy and wet on the return ... the black truck is no longer black.  I should have dived into the car wash when I got back to town.  should have - the famous last words

Yesterday the Jeep got it's oil changed -- so both of them should be good to roll for the winter -- Jeepy didn't like the cold commute home last night.  Neither did I.  

It is remarkably quiet today -- between cold closings and the ICE out closings -- it's quiet -- there is a protest at noon ?  2:00pm? in the park ..