coffee, email, and thou

hey isn't this great, i turn ON the computer and here you all are!
today i started a small fire in the woodstove, it's under 50 out and it is pretty chilly in here
so a tiny woodstove fire (it looks like it took)... by the end of the week we are to have very cold nights again.
i'll cover the deck planters and baby plants but i think they'll be ok
i have to empty the big ones and refill with fresh soil for this year.......snow peas here we come.

meanwhile here is one of lillianna, from last summer. i am wondering what i am going to be walking into when i take them out today, i cleaned lilli's crate and did momma's the other day, i have to do chickens but haven't started yet.
i have so much to do and am not getting most of it done.

i just had to poke up the fire again, it's needing a lot of attention since really it's way too warm out for it
but it's really cold and damp in the house so a smallish fire is good right now.
it'll take the chill off AND keep the stove ready for the cold at the end of the week.

bernie is talking about putting the patio furniture up on the deck, and getting his lawn mower, with our tax return. i don't know where he is going to put the lawn mower however, as we don't have a shed or garage and if he just tarps it, it will just rust out like his other ones did. oye
we could use a few small sheds and a couple of chicken/duck coops......
a wood shed would be helpful also
i could so go for a wood shed

i keep trying to remember all the things i wanted to look up while i was off line- one was a book

'The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire '

doesn't that look GOOD? oh man that looked soooooooo good at the book store the other day, (we went saturday) i so could have walked out of that book store with 100's of dollars worth of books that looked good- there was a graphic novel that was a true biography about a person who's father gave him cancer in the 50's by repeatedly taking Xrays of him from when he was a baby....thousands of them, then didn't treat him for a while.
i saw quite a few true ghost story books i wanted ( i did get one- an anthology from fate magazine)
i ended up spending the most time in the history and historical biography section ( THERE's a surprise hahahahaha) i did try for the fiction section but soon got confused and wandered over to history.
bernie got a book on some person who was in the military in WW2 he told me about the guy and now is reading his memoirs.

HANG ON THIS ACCIDENTLY published early, i am not finished yet............

so now for today, ducks of course (every day no?)
dishes naturally
planting of some impatient seeds i think, transplanting tomatoes to larger quarters,...
maybe lettuces or maybe i'll just start filling planters and wait until after the weekend cold snaps for the lettuces.
and i have to get another start on that blk/wht drawing- my fingers are itching to get involved in another one, even though there are parts of it that are boring, there is something very soothing to be doing the repetitive work of a drawing like my blk/wht pen & inks.
it becomes meditative
and it also looks like my tiny fire is caught finally (think a cratchit fire from dickens...)it should raise the temp in here by about 5 degrees which is all i need at the moment.
i can hear it pop and snap as i have to keep the door open to the woodstove, i'll give it one more log, a bit larger one and we'll call it a day on that.

last night's supper at 9pm was pork chops off the loin, (thick ones over an inch) with homemade bbq sauce, perogies and corn.......(bernie picked the vegg)
homemade bbq sauce: fast down & dirty- mustard, ketchup, garlic, onions, vinegar and brown sugar...... taste it, it should be sweet/sour/tangy........ then heat it to combine and you're good to go
if i would have had time i would have stuffed and breaded them, ( stuffed with something like fruit or chard and cheese) but he's getting home late now

in knitting news....there isn't! but i want to be making a shawl with some blue/green yarn from the yarn club and some beads..however i can't make up my mind sooooooooooooo i haven't started anything
i got startitus and then stopitius with everything lately.....
i imagine that is spring fever no?
oye

ok off i go
and you can now disreguard the ' HANG ON THIS ACCIDENTLY published early, i am not finished yet............' above as i am now done
have a nice day everyone

vi