Sue's World

Sounds of the Season

I love music but for some reason hardly ever listen to it unless my hubby has something playing.  We went to the cabin this past weekend and, as always, I enjoyed the music in the car and also that which accompanied our frenzied Rummikub and Uno playing. 

At home, my computer fan is about to die and it's been making a horrendous noise that's very distracting.  Yesterday I finally went to Pandora and started listening.  And then when I was downstairs cleaning I had music streaming through our TV.  How could I have forgotten how good music instantly makes me feel better?  D'oh!

On Pandora I have a mix of Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Handel.  Downstairs I listened to Mozart.  Some of it is Christmas music; some isn't.  Regardless, it's all lovely.

Bulbs, Bulbs Everywhere!

In this past week, I've dealt with more bulbs than ever before.  The day after Thanksgiving I put up Christmas lights at home.  The next day I put them up at the cabin.  And today I FINALLY finished planting the last of the flower bulbs.

I planted at least 200 bulbs today:  daffodils, muscari, iris, and freesia.  With the warm weather I thought this was a smart time to finish the job.  I should have had these in the ground at least a month ago but things kept getting in the way including cold snaps and rain.  But today there was no excuse.  I still have a few pony packs of plants and winter vegetables to go but those can wait a bit.

I've already enjoyed the Christmas lights and before I know it will enjoy the late Winter/early Spring flowers.  Now we just need a little more rain in the near future; I'm already going to pay the price for not watering the sweet pea seedlings at the back of the yard.  I suspect most of those are too far gone to resuscitate.  

P.S. Yesterday I did something fun:  I raked leaves!  Yes, the gardener comes tomorrow and would have taken care of it, but the big sycamore leaves strewn all about the front yard and driveway were irresistible.  I wished we lives in a place where it was okay to have leaf-strewn yards but...

Frantic Pace

Okay, so that's an exaggeration, but there has been something going on every week for the past several.  It's all good/fun stuff but time is flying by like crazy.

As tends to happen, I don't post consistently so all of a sudden things jam up and then I'm posting like crazy.  So now I need to take a bit of a breather before continuing.

This past weekend I was in Cambria; more on that later with photos (until my phone died) and stories.  It was GREAT! 

I will leave with one thing.  When we came home from Cambria, we were in and out of rain the whole way.  And I was surprised at how cold it was.  When we turned onto a street about 1/2 a mile away from our house, I saw a car with snow on it.  I figured it snowed in a nearby summit but was shocked when we pulled onto our street and saw white stuff around.  When I got out of the car it was obvious that it had rained hard and then the rain turned to wet snow.  So that's three times in one year that's happened.  There are places in the newly-planted area that have little holes about an inch wide and a little deeper where the rain pelted down off the roof.  But once we were hope there was no more of the wet stuff.  We enjoyed the first fire in the fireplace of the season.

I'm signing off with a couple of pictures; time to do something besides typing!

Kelly Turns 3

Time flies so quickly.  How can it be that Kelly is already 3?  The girls are great at this age.  They have their own personalities but it's great to see the sisters play together.

I can't yet figure out how to embed a video nicely, but if you click the link below you should be able to see a little clip of Keri driving around the race track in the backyard: 

Download 20111016_0318

I just posted a photo album from Kelly's party.  Look in the left column of the blog.  Enjoy!

 

 

New Photo Album: Cabin - Fall 2011

I finally looked at the cabin pics from Sept/Oct.  Mom and dad and I went to goof off but also to prep and paint the doors upstairs.  Things have shifted and the doors no longer closed so we worked on them. 

So now I have a new photo album called "Cabin - Fall 2011".  As of now, look in the left column and you should see it.