This weekend is their first trip to Galena

 

 

Maybe I'll take them over to see our friend Barb's new donkeys

 

...well....they might remember it...couldn't they?

 

It will be a full house...just like we like

 

except for the California ones.....Oh...did I tell you

 we are going there in june!!!

 

I am finally getting over this nasty virus....almost a month!

 

and the floors....well.....there's progress.....final stain, sanding and coating tomorrow

 

upstairs....then onto the living room and the study and foyer

 

yikes.....

 

I can't wait to get back to normal around here

 

but being house bound has given me much to ponder

 

and it isn't pretty

 

aging is a B

 

and one cannot exist on mac and cheese and pretzels



 

Every year in the springtime two Mallards appear in my garden 

I love to hear their quacking

Once they made a nest...with an egg...but alas, they abandoned it for some reason

 they are truly the sign that I wait for

before exhaling......Spring!!!

It has rained hard here lately...the ducks even had a few puddles to swim in...truly they did

 

 

The new wood floors  going in upstairs are almost finished

But it has been a nightmare for the cats

and me

I have been sick for a week with a virus of the ..can't lift my head off the couch..kind of virus

...sanding...pounding..banging, grinding.....stain and varnish

yikes...I don't think I am going to make it

My house looks like a hoarders ...stuff everywhere

and next week..they head downstairs

We have moved around the house at night...going from one bedroom to another

as they move us out of them

The kitties are stressed beyond belief

Abigail cries at night not knowing where we are

and Boo....well , Boo....he thinks its party time

Old Lady Ms Kitty OShea.....no one is moving her....

I finished that awful book.....hated every word of it...creepy

I watched the author on youtube

explained a lot to me

But the worst thing is I missed my Bookies book club discussion about it

sick......if only I had known..I could have spared myself

I am a difficult reader to please...just ask my book group

My dear mother brought over a cozy mystery for me by M.C.Beaton

Agatha Raisin mystery...Busy Body

Agatha is vain, bossy and always where the bodies are.....

gosh I love her

just what a sick woman needs while sipping hot tea and lemon

Pictures of the floors when they are finished