After a record warm day, I put out the hummingbird feeder. While watching the news, they had a picture of a ruby-throated hummingbird at a feederin NH, so I decided that I better put mine out. I have never put it out this early; usually toward the end of April.
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Spent the day repotting house plants. Will have pictures next week.
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Had 3 evenings last week that we didn't start the woodstove. Also, didn't start it until evening last night, and may not start it tonight.
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Attended the town meeting yesterday from 9 AM until 2:30 PM. We approved a new ambulance, and the submitted town budget (after adding 1k for maintenence for the police cruiser to cover issues that arose a couple of weeks ago). The selectmen did a great job keeping the budget fairly flat, so we didn't find much to complain about. We did have a long debate on a couple of items added by petition; one of which passed, and one that didn't. All in all, a typical town meeting for Deering.
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It will be really nice this coming week, temperature wise. Unfortunately it is so muddy that there is no sense in us getting the bikes out of storage. Just have to wait it out for a while more.
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WS did bring BILs bike down from the storage unit out back. He thought the tire was flat the mud bogged it down so much. But, everything was fine, so he spent the afternoon washing it and starting cleaning up the rims. Once it is all cleaned up, we will be putting it up for sale.
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The laptop has suddenly (as of this typing) started having trouble with the space bar. So will close out this post, shut down and see if I can clean it out.
Hope everyone had as nice a weekend as we did!
I mowed the grass, Friday, for fear it would rain over the weekend and your dad wouldn't be able to do it. Some of the grass was at least 8" tall (I did not measure it) and there was much debris (twigs/leaves) on it from the winter. First mowing since October, I think. It took a few passes; but, when finished, it looked beautifully green - for St Pat's! It worked well because your dad came home from FL with his usual upper respiratory infection (cold). He seems to pick one up whenever he travels - and that has been the case for the 55 years that I've known him!
Thanks for filling us in on the tidbits of what you've been up to. I'll send your dad an email with your news!
Posted by: Cop Car | March 19, 2012 at 01:22 PM
The grass has needed another mowing for about three days now; but, it rained every day until about noon, yesterday. Now, the ground is too soggy. Maybe in a day or two.
I think I should put out a feeder for the hummers this weekend (usually, I await their coming to the living room window to scold me for not having it out!) According to the report of last weekend, "our" hummers were still in Texas, so I didn't put out the feeder.
Posted by: Cop Car | March 24, 2012 at 10:04 AM