DAY OFF day! I woke up around 5am but made myself go back to sleep because it is my ‘no alarm’ day and I wanted to catch as much shut eye as possible. Not that I had a ton of plans or anything, just wanted to let my mind and body rest. We had two records to mail and Mike wanted to add the post office to his morning errands so I hopped up and packaged ’em up! Got the bird feeders topped off, water refreshed and decided to rake up the little bit of leaves on the lawn. While doing so I was mentally putting an area together for a garden area that we can put two of the red Adirondack chairs in, the spot of the yard where the grass just never really stays each year. So 2 chairs on the deck and 2 chairs in the front yard.
I started to clean some of the leaves out of the gardens but since it is still early March I left them to protect the baby plants that are making their way out of the ground. Lots and lots of Obedient Plant coming up, I’m fine if it takes over the spot where I planted it. It is from Kevin’s farm upstate from when I visited with Caroline and Bobbi in September 2021. I intended to a blog post about that trip back when I took it but never did. It was so much fun, we were farmers! We farm!
After sweating like crazy since it was like 80 degrees, took a nice shower, did my hair and a little makeup and then Mike and I got our VISA photos taken at Walgreens – we need a VISA to travel to Vietnam so this is the first step in the application. After seeing the ingredients on the counter I re-read my colonoscopy prep paperwork and realized I couldn’t have raw veggies so we pivoted for dinner and picked up General Tso’s Tofu after getting our picture took. LOL. Came home and enjoyed a little time in my “treehouse” (our screened in porch) with Uli. Being out there really restores me, I did my NY Times games, listened to all of the different birds – watched a couple of Red-Headed Woodpeckers flying around and doing lots of calls, I wonder if they were marking ‘their’ territories.
I noticed that the Eastern Phoebe couple is back, this would be the third year they reused the next under the screened in porch (if they decide to use it) I saw them flying in and out but didn’t notice any differences, I’ll keep an eye on it!
Once the sun got lower, Uli and I moved to the deck and I sat in my chair and moved his ‘bed’ over to where I was sitting. He looked so comfy and handsome, I asked him if he wanted mama to come lay with him and he said yes, so I did. I lay their with him, rubbing him and telling him what a good boy he is and how handsome he is – Mike captured that sweet moment as he went to pre-heat the oven for dinner! Have to share it since it is something that I have always loved to do, I can remember doing it with Madchen when I was little. I love laying with a dog and watching their eyes – closing as they get sleepy and loving the rubs, eyes opening but not moving their head because they recognize a word or hear something off in the distance. Some of my dogs throughout my life didn’t mind me all up in their business, some of them minded, all of them were loved and I accepted their boundaries haha. I’m happy that Uli doesn’t mind me laying like this with him.
So peaceful, just like my day. Be nice to everything, bye for now.
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