Is it feeling like that for you, too? Nothing new or exciting to report. We thought James would be coming on Wednesday to resume work on the house but, nope. Is this an exercise in patience or what? Yep. Is it time to tell him to fish or cut bait? Good question. Will we find anyone else to do the work at the same prices? Nope!
In the meantime, yard work continues. Steve and I got the grass seed planted in the backyard. I straightened up the bricks that separate the back lawn from the back "wild" area and I pulled out "bad" plants (dandelions, invasive honeysuckle, trash trees) from about one third of that area. I really believe that in this coming week - which is not supposed to be very rainy - we will have all the areas around the house cleaned out and then it will just be regular maintenance.
Everyone around us is receiving their stimulus checks. Not us yet. We just finally got our income taxes prepared on Thursday. But, at least that is done and we have enough money saved in our income tax savings to cover the accountant, how much we owe, and have 77 dollars leftover. Not bad! All of our stimulus money will go to paying for the rest of our remodeling.
We finished up season one of the Mandalorian Tuesday night. We had a Zoom discussion with Elise, Sarah, and Steven about season one of Picard. We watched "Solo" on Netflix. We watched our DVD copy of "The Rookie". We ventured out to buy groceries one day and to two hardware stores another day. We made a few ministering visits throughout the week. One was to pick up some extra produce from Ron M. who got all of it from our local food pantry and he couldn't, or didn't want to, use it all. This is what he passed on to us: 4 salmon filets, 6 bunches of asparagus, 2 bags of sweet potatoes, a mess of green beans, 3 dozen eggs. I have no idea what he actually kept for himself. But the question is......why is the food pantry giving a single man SO MUCH FOOD???!?!?!? I shared the sweet potatoes and some of the asparagus with others, I froze the salmon and have found a couple of recipes to try, I blanched and froze the asparagus, I cooked the green beans, and I found a sweet potato muffin recipe I want to use since they are high in potassium and Steve can't eat them.
OH!!! Sarah had a birthday on Friday - all by herself in Ogden, Utah. She had to make her own ice cream cake for the first time and she did a terrific job. She had a Zoom viewing of "Field of Dreams" with some friends. She went kayaking on Saturday. We wished we could have been with her.
And, we bought gasoline yesterday at $1.26 per gallon......
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