It is barely still Thursday, but I thought I’d sneak a This & That in since I haven’t done one in awhile and I have a bunch of random mish-mash – none of which makes a full post all on its own. So I say…let’s bring Thursday T & T back!
You might be wondering (or maybe you didn’t even notice at all – those few readers I even have left!) where the Team UP Thursday has disappeared to. My fearless partner and I decided that we just needed a little break. We had been participating for over a year and lately our hearts were just too full of other stuff to really be fully into TUT. In fact, most weeks we were both scrambling on Wednesday night just to get it done, and some of the creative process was getting lost along the way. So we said goodbye to TUT – at least for awhile. (But I do miss everyone and especially you, K! I hope you are doing well.)
Today we also said goodbye to our awesome a/c & heating crew who have been working hard this week and have installed a new unit in our attic for our upstairs. So perhaps this summer we will be stylin’ in cool, cool comfort. I think I might have freaked the crew out a little bit earlier this week, though. I asked if our condenser could be switched around the corner and the guys replied “of course, but we need to get that tree stump out of there.” So I tried to find someone that could do stumps quickly and when I did not find anybody…I took on the stump myself.
VERY good therapy, let me tell you. And it was pretty cool to see the look of awe on the guys’ faces when they came into the backyard and realized that it was ME who got the stump out.
Of course, I quickly found someone to take care of the other 10 stumps spread throughout the yard. Because…yeah. One stump I can do…Ten? No. Plus Addikins and I have some big gardening plans and we don’t have time to be grinding and digging stumps. Addie is obsessed with wanting to plant stuff. She has asked me no less than ten times in the last two days if it is time to put her bean and sunflower plants in the ground. “They need to have their roots in soil in the ground, Mama. They can’t stay in my cup.” So clearly I really need to get her space ready for her.
I mean, look! She came home with garden plans in her backpack today…
Eeeee! I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love this. I mean seriously? Ovkotow tree? (Avocado tree) Carits? (Carrots) Boobaes? (Blueberries) And Mashroom? (Mushrooms) How can you not totally love her sweet drawings and her completely phonetic attempts at spelling?! It is so darn KUOOT! (That would be “cute” ala Addie!)
And we do indeed have some lovely blueberry bushes that we need to plant, and I have a feeling the Easter Bunny just might bring some gardening equipment our way this weekend, too.
I hope you all have a lovely and blessed Easter as well, if I don’t make it back on here before the weekend is out.
Taking a page out of your mother’s book I see, when the pool guy told her “you girls won’t be able to lay the pipe necessary for the pool”
Construction guys learn quickly that you don’t tell the Williams women they can’t do heavy labor.
Good job, Care.
The garden lay out, and plans look like something that could be a continuing theme to keep us posted on the progress.
Love,
Dad
My heart is melting…I love the avocado tree. Absolutely precious!
Very impressed with the stump removal. I can’t say I would have even attempted that.
I can’t wait to see photos of Addie’s actual garden!!!
These garden plans need to show up at her graduation! Even though we will always remember what it said, I often wonder if our kids will remember when they are older =)
I see a future landscaping artist on your hands.
You are a woman after my own heart. If no one will do it for you? You it yourself! Good job!!!! And as for the divine garden plans!!! *sigh*. I particularly love her cross section drawings with the carrots underground!