Pecan tree - I'm drooling! Our two pecan trees, which were planted at least 20 years ago by my father, finally gave us one pecan last year - I was pretty excited! We are really too far north for them, but Pop had to try. I did buy a bag (ouch!) of pecans at Aldi yesterday (Boss mentioned that he missed the shortbread cookies I used to make) and now wish he'd planted several more... We do have hickory and black walnut trees galore, at least.
The pool was great, Wanderlore - wore me out to the point I came home and took a nap!! It was even nicer yesterday since they shut down the air conditioning - I'm hoping that they just open the windows instead of turning it back on... Our Indian Summer usually hits around Columbus Day; I thought maybe last week was it, as it had been cold then turned off warm again; but it looks like we have a few warm days in the calendar this week as well - 90 today, 70 tomorrow, then some mid to low 80's for a few days before settling back into the 70's.
As for preps, I used a combo of coupons and sales to pick up 44 assorted cans of soup yesterday - and also some ink for the printer so that I could print some more coupons. I'm watching and hoping for some better soup sales at the larger stores; the recent ones have been at Dollar General or the drug stores, who have limited varieties. The sales are starting to trickle in, but will just use the coupons to stock up if needs be as I don't like shopping for heavy items when surfaces are slick with snow/ice - I breaks when I falls down, these days!
Daughter got the green light to move back into her house yesterday; the ex had moved out over the weekend and just left it sitting unlocked; so lucky it didn't get vandalized! (Handily, the neighbors have a security camera that shows one side of her house - the side where the door was left unlocked.) But at least she was able to get inside, and the locksmith was able to come right by to change the locks (his wife is a client, she may have urged him to do so
) so she could lock it up again. She went over in between appointments to do some cleaning, then I snagged the boys after school and stayed with them until nearly 8pm so that she could go back and clean some more - it was just plain nasty, and quite a bit of it appeared deliberate - feces/tp left in toilets, etc... - plus there was some unpleasant graffiti written on one wall, so it will need to be painted over before the boys move back in. I'm going over this morning to pick up my purse that I forgot at her house, and will go to Dollar General to pick up things like trash cans, toilet brushes, gallons of bleach
- all the little things. She's going to work in between appointments and evenings on getting repairs and the cleaning done the next couple of days then move the major items in on Friday - fridge, washer/dryer, her shop things... The rest will get done as it gets done; I'll happily pay the rental unit storage fees myself if it will give us an extra month in order to have that month to move stuff slowly!
I will snag the boys Saturday morning in order to keep them from being underfoot while she is moving; then will hitch up the trailer, and head to my work Buddy's house as he is also moving this weekend. His new house has a large back yard with a swing set, so we'll throw the boys out in the yard with a kick ball and some water balloons so that I can stay at the house to accept furniture and appliance deliveries, clean, and put stuff away while the younger people move items - one co-worker's college age daughter has some male friends who just rented an apartment, so Buddy is going to give them his old furniture in trade for doing the heavy lifting; I just love it when things work out that way!
Guess I'd probably better get moving if I'm going to get anything done and still make it to the pool before I have to pick up the boys!
Take care all; stay safe out there!
