Even here in the mountains of Utah where I live at 7000 ft above sea level it is spring!!! :o)
The snow has melted off early this year. We didn't get nearly as much snow as would be normal for our area and it has been warmer than normal so the snow is gone (all but the higher mountain elevations) and the ground is drying up fast which means that theres tons of work to do!
Why I'm a Crazy Lady!
SPRING CLEANING
you know I look just like this when I'm cleaning don't you?
Spring cleaning is almost done on the inside, most of It I do in the winter months because I am home bound a lot of the time. I don't like to go out and about if the roads are bad and I am not a winter sports person. I really do not like the cold so I stay indoors quit a bit in the winter months. This is when I will do my spring cleaning and indoor projects like painting, decorating or refinishing furniture. I have a set of bookshelves in the garage that I'm going to start this week for Paris's room.
Once the warm weather gets here I DO NOT WANT TO BE INDOORS! When it is warm you will find me out at the barn clipping and bathing a horse, riding or giving lessons to the kids, working in the garden or in a flowerbed, chicken watching *grin*. Now that the girls are getting older they want to be doing the same things as me. :o) (happy Grammy) Here's yer hat!
Why I'm a Crazy Lady!
GARDEN PLANNING
We will be garden planning, preparing the garden area and getting it all planted. Last year we tripled our garden area. I have some new ideas for the new areas but it will probably evolve over time. Some of the ideas that I have take $$$$ others take time. Things like a cottage looking garden shed (with a porch) ;o) $$$, a fence $$$, stone pathways (time), and fruit bushes/trees will be added, more $$$ and time.
I have this huge bronze looking rooster that is about three ft tall that I want to use out in the garden somehow, maybe at the entrance $$$ or as an ornament alongside the garden shed. There is a lot of clean up to do outside, everything looks dirty after winter and before everything greens up. Also depending on the year we can get a pretty bad muddy season. (I hope we don't this year)
I have asked my hubby to install a clothes line out in the yard (I have asked this for the last two years ;o) so that when weather permits I can hang out our clothes to cut cost on our utilities and just because I love the smell of line dried laundry and bedding. Also I need it for our big blankets and comforters, we have a king size bed and that comforter won't even fit in our dryer. Also I usually have a few horse blankets and sheets to hang out. DH says OK! he gets it.....the clothes line will go in this spring! :o) He likes to eat.....Heres yer hat!
Why I'm a Crazy Lady!
I need to finish a couple of books I have started. This one is tough I have two I am reading now, oh wait.... make that four that I need to finish so I can get to some of the others I bought that I want really to read. I also have a few I want to reread because I read them while going through a stressful time in my life and I don't even remember what they were about. :o)
My book list:
Reading now; Fool Proofing Your Life (how to deal effectively with impossible people in your life) by Jan Silvious
The Scarlet Cord, nothing but the blood of Jesus (a concise call to world missions) by Jon & Ann Dunagan of Harvest Ministry
As Silver Refined (what if your circumstances are actually the flames of God's grace, intended to burn away all that is undesirable in your life, leaving you pure, like refined silver?) by Kay Arthur
The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer
Next in line;
The Mission Minded Family by Ann Dunagan
The Mission Minded Child by Ann Dunagan
Make Your Place (affordable, sustainable nesting skills) by Raleigh Briggs
The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency used by the Mormon Pioneers (I do live in Utah :o)
Forgotten God by Francis Chan (reread)
Radical by David Platt (reread)
Crazy Love by Francis Chan (reread)
Indescribable by Louie Giglio and Matt Redman
Revolution in World Missions by K. P. Yohannan
Redeeming The Time by Chuck D. Pierce
A Beautiful Offering by Angela Thomas
Because He Loves Me by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick (reread, I only got half way through it and don't remember what I read)
Heres yer hat!
I totally look like this when I read! :o) Don't you read in pantyhose?
Why I'm a Crazy Lady!
It seems like I have a hard time reading the books that I want to read. I read to and with the girls every night for about an hour before bed time. We just finished reading The Horse and His Boy by C.S.Lewis and now we are reading Cheaper By The Dozen and will watch the movie when we are done. (sometimes I like to order the movies if there has been one made of the books we are reading, it makes for a fun movie night and makes for some fun conversations about the books/stories/people/lifestyles/choices etc. ) It also helps to build a better visual picture in the kids minds of there story and they just remember the stories better. (me too ;o) I have a whole other list of books we will be reading together.....Heres yer Hat!
Why I'm a Crazy Lady!
Then by the time I can take a breath from all the outdoor clean up and garden planting and maybe go for a few rides on my horse it will be summer and what comes next? Canning Season!!!
Here's yer hat! :o)
Just in case you were wondering ..........Why I'm a Crazy Lady!
Blessings and Happy Spring!!!
*Susan*
2 comments:
Oh, my! You are one busy gal! You've earned your hat! :~D (meant in the kindest way.)
Thanks for dropping in today. I'm about to go out and do some more 'warm weather' stuff. We finally have more than an hour or two of sunshine in a row! I think I will be needed one of those hats, too!
Blessings!
This was such a fun read Susan, if all this qualifies as a crazy lady, then I am in the same category.~grin~ I am so like you in the sense that when it gets warm I want to be outside. And since I am well and since now it is warm here I am out most of the day. I am even getting a farmer's tan. lol.
I love to read, but don't do as much since I started blogging, and that I do miss. I love the fact that you read to the girls at night,these are special memories that they will carry always.
Thanks for sharing, enjoy the warm weather,I guess we will both be busy this summer gathering and canning our veggies.I enjoy this so much.
Hugs,
Sue
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