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Lovely spring day.
Today was just about as perfect a spring day as a day can possibly get. All blue skies, warm sunshine, mild temperatures in the mid-60s, and no sea breeze. Perfection. I spent the entire afternoon outside raking and cleaning up flower beds and picking up twigs and sticks...and stomping mole holes full of dirt. I don’t know why I bothered with that. They’ll just dig themselves out by morning.
I have quite the mole infestation. I found holes dug in the yard all over the place. They are mole holes. No doubt about it. And I’m not too thrilled. I must have an entire family of them including grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles, along with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cousins. They have made a mess and I am more than happy to bring my rake and pitchfork crashing into their world.
It’s really a sign, though, isn’t it? This yard needs a dog. I might, too.
There are green shoots poking up all over the place today. And the lilacs are very close to bursting into bloom—which, I think, is a bit early. My redbud trees also show signs of life and they, too, are close to bursting out into something. I have no idea whether they’ll give me flowers for the first time this year or just leaves, but they’re about to pop out with something. I’ll take anything they want to give me. They haven’t died on me yet. That’s a big bonus right there.
As hard is it is for me to get two trees growing in the front of my house, I noticed this afternoon that there about 100 or so volunteer maple seedlings that have just sprouted. If I didn’t do another thing out there, I’d have the beginnings of a hardwood forest in my front yard. It’s so tempting. I suppose I’ll let one or two grow and try to transplant them later.
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In other news....I think that I’m losing my mind.
I’ve lost 3 Netflix movies. I know that they were in their red envelopes and I know that I had them ready to return (finally), but when I went out a little while ago, I couldn’t find them. I turned the house upside down looking for them and they simply are not in a place where I can find them. Which is to say, I could have put them someplace while I was putting something else away during my cleaning frenzy this week. Things like that have happened before. On the other hand, I was thinking I’d already left them in the car to drop off at the mailbox the next time I was near one...but they weren’t in the car either.
So, either I’ve put them away really, really well and won’t run across them for a couple of months until I open just the right drawer or I did leave them in the car and someone took ‘em. I wouldn’t discount either option so I’m about ready to admit defeat and tell Netflix I lost the darned things and pay for them. If they turn up, well, I guess I get to add three movies to my library.
Where in the world would have I have tucked three bright red envelopes? I even checked in the fridge. My house is really not that large. It’s so baffling.
oh, how i hate losing things like that. i think it is a function of shifting hormones for me! i was going to suggest the car which is where i would have likely put them. the only other suggestion for me would be a canvas tote that i would take with me should i leave!
we have a mole issue, too, and have tried everything! the only thing which seems to help here is a castor oil spray, purchased from a garden area of local stores. hubby saturates the gardens with this. it has been helpful to us. i am not fond of the immediate scent it leaves, but i think it drives the moles to the neighbors for a while! they usually come back next season, however, but have never been as abundantly obvious as they were prior to our using this remedy. fewer holes and shorter residency. good luck. 
I am still waiting for the steak knife to my set (that I can’t replace) to show up from when we moved last year! It was there with all the others when we first moved in, then just poof gone!
Maybe it will show up when we move again? It is getting closer the the 95% mark. GC2 seems to be our concern (well there are a couple more, but ones we can deal with) at the moment.
My heart aches about GC1 but, she has to fly the coupe sometime. I refuse to do what my mother and family did to me and make me feel guilty and that it would be absurd to move away from all of them. She doesn’t need to wait until she is thirty to cut the apron strings LOL!
Try my hardest to think what you could have done with them. I don’t suppose you put them in your bag did you? What were you cleaning around the time you put them in the sleeves? Or could you have already put them in the mail and forgot that you did? Did you go out at all to run errands at all around the time of your cleaning frenzy?
Oh so glad you lost them before I dropped the bomb on you lol! I would have felt so guilty!!!
OK, my word it Juno. At least its not Jupiter lol.
Am I going to start seeing names related to Florida in the little captcha word box in the coming days? LOL that would be one way to get even!
I love the dragons on the bottom of the page btw!!
Well, Sky, I’ve been like this since I was born. Totally right brained and way too easily distracted. I end up putting things down in the strangest places when I go do a wholesale spring cleaning. It happens every single time. Still, I cannot imagine where these DVDs are. I really have turned the house upside down looking for them. Looked in, around, above, below everything in every square inch of this house. They almost certainly have to be in this house, but I’m almost prepared to say that they aren’t. How frustrating!
I’ll check into that castor oil spray. It’s better than rat poison or some such thing that would probably end up hurting someone’s cat instead of the moles. I can’t believe how many mole holes I found yesterday. Their tunnels are making my yard lumpy.
J, you’re moving. I know you’re moving and it’s 99.999% sure. I just know you’ll be gone by mid-summer. I’m trying to adjust here. Well, it’s not California, but it’s warm. Of course, you get the hurricanes, fire ants, and Palmetto bugs, but you won’t have to shovel snow. I could see that as a near reasonable exchange. ;)
I certainly understand what you mean about separating from GC1, though. It’s not easy, but good for them and for us. They grew up too fast.
As far as your steak knife goes, I’m guessing someone grabbed one to open a box the day you moved and it ended up either left in a box or in the truck. I wouldn’t count on seeing it again.
My little dragons...I’m raising a fine family of them. I’m stealing them, breeding them, participating in a lineage project...it’s just ridiculously amusing and fun.
No, no it is not California. But yes it is warmer. And I have a better attitude about having to move there than I did here! I have just in this past 6-8 month been able to drive down the street without almost bursting into tears when it hits me that I am not home LOL. So I guess that is something! And I do have family there. And friends will be more inclined to visit me there than they do here, that is for sure. Sal used to live there with her first husband and she liked it there. I haven’t said anything to her yet, sometime over the weekend if they are not off to Mexico or Catalina for the weekend. Those lucky dogs!
Hey, I think you should come over on Sunday (meant to ask you yesterday while we were on the phone) hang out and do nothing, and have dinner with us. Just going to wing it! Unless the other J has snagged you already? Give you a call tomorrow about it. Just wanted to throw it out there for ya! TTFN
Ok now, are ya messing with me? my word is Ceres! I am hoping that it is the PLANT, and not Ceres Ca!! LOL.
I am still looking for my Christmas stockings! I put them somewhere after the first Christmas in the cottage, and have not found them since. yesterday I started looking for me painted wood eggs, no luck. Perhaps you mailed them back but forgot!
I don’t think they were ever returned, Annie. My netflix queue is the same as it was. Nothing has changed and there has been ample time for them to have arrived if they were mailed. Still can’t find them in the house. I checked a while ago and it costs $20 for each lost DVD. Ouch. I think I’d better make sure that the Netflix movies have exactly two places to reside in my house: by the DVD player and by the front door.