2nd week of May -this week’s to do list, a YouTube link and what I did last week and comments

Hello everyone 

First, here is this weeks to do list.  It’s very simple and loose as things come up and I can’t finish tasks I hoped to.  

I know y’all all understand that 

Last week is a perfect example of things happening that needed fixed 

We had a huge flash rain storm last week and I discovered in the middle of the night that water was coming into our house,  

We didn’t have any permanent damage or need to call our insurance company.  And we have worked on a few things to hopefully prevent this again.  Anyway, I was busy with lots of mopping,  removing water from the living room rug and master bedroom carpet,  washing several loads of towels that mopped up rain water - so very little was crossed off last weeks to do list while I spent 2 days dealing with the water in our house. 

This week is so far going just fine.  

It’s really hot so my husband grilled burgers for Monday supper.  We ate all the meat but there were leftover buns and toppings so I decided to just serve those tonight with a new to us recipe.  

It’s a recipe called mesquite grilled chicken sandwiches (but it doesn’t use any actual mesquite) 

https://gluesticksblog.com/mesquite-grilled-chicken-sandwich/

I’ll let you know how they turn out.  

A project that has been on my list for sometime isto clean out a closet in our garage and make it exclusively a cleaning items closet. If you walk out through our laundry room, this closet is right there beside the door. It’s functional now but it’s not clean and it’s not pretty. I got the idea from seeing a YouTuber makeover her cleaning closet. 

I remember this homemaker’s cleaning closet was very pretty but she purchased a lot of stuff to accomplish her vision.

I looked on YouTube but I cannot find the exact video that I remember.

Then  last week I saw Emily Wilson on YouTube redo a closet in her home. Her style is much more like my style. She didn’t go out and buy a bunch of stuff. But she accomplished the goal she wanted to.

https://youtu.be/XNf-3__rxVs

While I would like to get this closet fixed this week, it is very hot in Oklahoma right now. And there is not a lot of ventilation in our garage. So it might get done but I might have to put it off until we have a cool spill.

Terri left a comment but I accidentally deleted it. 

She is very right about the fact that we won’t always little boys to fetch things in hard to reach places. 

I certainly don’t know everything about children but I do know children are not children  very long.

❤️ Rhonda 

May 2- weekly to do list

Good morning

I’ve been to my doctor for a yearly checkup first thing this morning and I sorted the laundry and have  the first load started.  

Now I need to get busy doing some housework and I need to go back out and do 2 errands.  

Hope we all have productive weeks

❤️ Rhonda 

May 1st- organizing a cabinet and things from our walk

Hello everyone 

After church,  I asked a grandson to help me with a corner cabinet in our kitchen.  

It has a narrow door but it’s open all the way back to the corner.  

It will hold lots of stuff but it’s very easy to lose and forget about stuff too.  

I went through all the stuff he pulled out and then made a list to put on that door to help me remember what’s in there 

The cabinets are not full and that’s fine with me.  

I’m guessing some of y’all would like a JJ to help you with some hard to reach places too 😊

Later in the afternoon, I went for a walk and the two grandsons rode their bikes.

This business that is closed on weekends has a great parking lot for bike riding. The boys look a lot farther off in this picture than they really are.

 But it is a good size area that they can make loops on and you have to go up and down the entranceway.

They both burned off lots of silliness during our exercise outing. 

This is in the yard in a house several blocks from our house. I think the plant is called clematis and it blooms every spring. 

The first year it bloomed, I thought it was  silk flowers as I had never seen a real lavender flower  blooming like this.

In case you’re wondering, the side of this house faces the west. 

   

We stopped at the little free library in our neighborhood. We know the teacher that runs it and it is OK to take whichever books we want.
I’ve been reading the Benjamin Franklin book to two of the boys. I read the Paul Revere book and have started the book about John Hancock.

 They may be intended for children but they have lots of good history in them.

In our yard, several rhododendron bushes are in full bloom, above.

Below is a peony bush that will be blooming any day.

Terri

We had a heavy rain a few nights ago and it washed away almost all of the flowers on the bleeding heart plant.

 So it may have lasted more than a week, but not much more.

 They are very pretty plants though.

Happy May Day to everyone 

❤️ Rhonda