I have to admit I enjoy my "long weekends" with Benj, during this busy time of year I start to miss him a bit. Black Friday is not "black" because it's when retailers are in the black financially. It is the color of the emptyness of my wallet. I already had all my Christmas shopping done with the exception of my niece so I only bought stuff for Ben and myself. Got some good deals though and spent some time with my m-i-l, s-i-l, and a-i-l. Thanks ladies even though I showed up late and left early. I just am not a huge fan of shopping. Saturday Benj and I worked on picking up more scrap in the yard, cleaned the house (best we could). Benj got a few pictures, a mirror and curtains hung up for me. And I pulled our Christmas decorations out of the closet. Came to realize that I don't really have many decorations. At the rental I always cut pine bows and put lights in the bay window and on the fire place mantal (we never used the fire place). I have a homemade garland that I made a few years ago out of old fabric balls that Benj had gotten me at an auction (imagine that). A Christmasy table cloth, and a garland that has snowflakes on them... I'm hoping that when we get our tree it feels a little more festive. I do however have PLEANTY of Christmas napkins, I think I've gotten a new set every Christmas for the last 10 years... I love them all but thinking of downsizing my stash so if anyone needs any! Today we "tightened up" the "garage". Since we are hopeing to build a new pole shed next year we don't want to put to much effort into this so we put plastic on the broken windows and picked up a bunch of branches and cut a bit of firewood. Here is a before picture, it was to dark to take an after. The chickens kept us company the whole time we were working on the garage so I had to take a pic or two, or 22? Lucky for you I'm only posting a few. Mrs. Speckels is the black n white hen and then we have two Red hens affectioatly called "Red Hens". Their egg laying has been down quite a bit, I'm averaging one egg a day. I actually broke down and bought a dozen at Kwik Star (Love their 99cent eggs). Making egg salad is on my agenda for tonight. This weekend I have also been working on cleaning out one of the bedrooms upstairs. Besides the room that has the water heater and bathtub in it this is the worst room in the house currently so it is going to be the first one I really work on. Here are a few before pics. Not sure how long it is going to take me but it is next on my list. I can NOT forget to mention that my provider, my loving husband put more meat in the freezer this weekend. 2 more squirls. I have a old bird feeder that would work really well for a "squirl feeder", I have a great spot for it right outside the back door by the tree line. Very visable from the kitchen. *** Just took a pic of my homemade garland... here is is. Simple and rustic.
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Had a good weekend. Saturday morning we got a bunch of stuff done outside. I put on about 4 miles walking. Went to an auction. Ran out to the rental house and got a load of wood that was still out there. Saturday night on our way to church I saw lights. CHRISTMAS lights, no mistaking them... santa clause, reindeer, sleigh, christmas tree, and snowman... all out in someones yard. And that is only the decorations we could see from the road in the dark... seriously its not even Thanksgiving yet. Sunday I got to go shopping with Molly. Had a better time catching up than shopping. For those of you who know me well know I do not really enjoy shopping. We went to the outlet mall in Medford MN. I fell in love with a dresserish thingy at the Back Porch or is it Front porch... ? I didn't buy it and am regretting it now. I even dreamt about it last night. Ben stayed home and did stuff outside. Love him. Last night he picked up the computer and was like "There is a sheep on the desktop". Um yeah its been there for a month now... I took this picture the day of the NIACC Calf Club sale. I was taking a bunch of pics for Abbie of the sale but couldn't resist taking pics of the sheep. This is my favorite one. HA as I'm writing this blog, right outside our large living room window there are 2 squirls. Ben is missing an opportunity here.
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