1. Celebrated birthdays, mine, my dad’s and my daughter’s. All in a row!
2. The garden. Still with the crabgrass. Also, deer ate tops off my sunflowers and cucumbers, so we’re trying sterner measures of deer deterrent. Husband found something called a Scarecrow sprinkler that’s a motion-detector. Detects and squirts deer. We’ll see if that works better than Liquid Fence, which they are holding their noses and ignoring.
3. Organizing. We never actually finished unpacking, so we’ve been working on organizing basement, garage, office, getting books unpacked, etc. These things take time.
4. Summer schooling; doing review of what kids know before starting the next year, seeing where gaps are, where they need more practice. Also setting up for the coming school year with organization for books and materials.
5. Went to see Knight and Day. Tom Cruise played to his strengths by playing an “am I crazy?” character and it really worked. I pretty much hate romantic comedies because they’re not funny or romantic, but this movie made me laugh many times and I believed the romance, too. Plus lots of action and adventure. Will be getting this one on Blu Ray.
Aside from that, the husband is gearing up to build furniture for kids that’s sturdier than what they have and I’ll paint it (yes, like free painting, flowers and fun designs, colorful and bright) so we’ll have many ongoing projects inside and out. I might even get around to my mosaic-tile table top project at last.
Sounds like a very busy and fun week.
NJ, it’s all fun except for the tornadoes! And thankfully those missed us.
I blew off a few hours of work to make good on one of my resolutions and hit the bookstore, where while browsing I found two books I desperately needed for researching a future writing project. I’m calling it shopping karma.
I used to buy old pieces of furniture to strip, handpaint and refinish for my little ones. I even did a little old rocking horse once. Fun, but now that the children are older and into more grownup furniture, my guy won’t let me donate it to Goodwill — he keeps it stored in the garage. 🙂
Sounds like a very productive week, writing aside! I cleaned out my closet (massive job!) and washed everything in my drawers before sorting for the goodwill sack and refolding to put away neatly.
Good for your guy. Those are family heirlooms.
Hurrah for good shopping karma! I love finding research books.
That’s always a nice job to have done, isn’t it? I think organization helps with writing, you’re not distracted by all the stuff around you that needs to be taken care of. One of the best things we did for productivity this week was to look around the office, realize we didn’t need half of what was in it on a daily or even weekly basis, and move those things down to the basement.