TWO TIRED PEOPLE

June 15th----   We worked outside today.  Started by cutting off some low limbs from our maple trees.  Low enough to hit your head when mowing.  Then Ernie cut them smaller to go in our burn barrel.  Yes, we can still burn things in a barrel.  We are out in the country and it is ok.   Then it was out to our big old pine tree.  Such a pretty tree, if you looked at it from the house.  But from the road the lower limbs were bare of needles and it did not look very nice.  So we have started cutting off the smaller parts of the limbs to get a path into the middle.  Then we will get the saw and saw those off.
Making a clean trunk about head high.
We had 5 wheel barrel loads full. Really full!  More to cut off also. I am reminded now and then, that when Ernie wanted to buy the wheel barrel at a garage sale I thought it was not necessary.
Well, I really like the darn thing and use it frequently.  It is a great tool when loading the RV.  I bring it up to the house, fill it with stuff from the fridge or closets and take it out to the RV.  Handy and not so many trips. Do the reverse when we get home.

Have you ever mowed a gravel drive?  We did today.  Due to not being home unless it rained or we had appointments, some weeds came up in the driveway.  Our drive is over 200 ft long and some of it does not get much traffic.  Ernie sprayed the weeds and grass with weed killer and then we had a brown and gravel drive.  So today he got out the old push mower with grass (weed) catcher and tried to see if we could mow the weeds down.  So together we mowed  and the drive looks much better.

The house in Syracuse is scheduled to close on the 20th of June.  Hope it all goes ok.
The bedroom( where I have put things from Syracuse) was a little neater and then I decided to change the shelf above the bed.
It was full of brass candle sticks that we collected when we first started traveling.
Need a brass candle holder?  I have plenty, inexpensive too!  Will put some pictures
on the shelf, with a few remaining brass pieces that I still like and want to keep.

We are going to a rally---next week-- in Ft. Wayne Indiana.  Yeah!

There were 10 from my class at the Methodist Homecoming last Saturday.  Enjoyed the day and had a good lunch.  The School of Nursing has a homecoming every 3 years.   Works out great and they still have good attendance.  The last nursing class was in 1967.

 Our son and daughter gave me a Mothers day gift of a free piano tuning.
Now I need to start playing again.  I took piano lessons for several years.  I now realize my piano teacher was very patient with me, I do not have the best sense of timing and rhythm.  But she always complimented me on how well I played the scales.
Still like doing them.  Limbers up the fingers.  Does any one else have the Readers Digest music books?  I got them when Nancy and Alan were still home. 

Our tomato plants have blossoms!!!!!  Yesterday I decided to get the clippers and cut the weeds away from the asparagus.  Our asparagus bed is rather sparse, it is only about 45 years old, the best asparagus is growing out in the grass, too root bound in the original bed.  Anyway, I even sat down to pull or cut those weeds close to the grown asparagus.  The weed eater cuts  aspargus faster than you can say  "oh no, not that one!"  You know what I am going to write next.    It is called CHIGGERS.  They had a family picnic on my body.   At first I thought I had gotten into poison ivy as I saw a little sprig of it under the pine tree.  No, Oh, No.  I do know the difference.  They are both bad things to have and get rid of.

and enough stuff, it is getting late.  Hope you all have a good day and Happy Fathers day to any Fathers reading this.

jkc