yesterday down in the valley

i went to the lehigh valley with jen, the yarn store, and B&N (my favorite bookstore now that we aren't living near womraths in hackensack) i got some yarn, oops............. like i needed more
and i got some books........again.......big oops like i needed more
but at b&n you can get 4X the amount of books you can get anywhere else.
i got a gardening book, two ghost stories books, and the follow up to a novel called garden spells
i would have also liked to get some history books and a book on quantum physics but i restrained myself.
at the yarn store i got some varigated yarn in deep bright rainbow colors, and a nice heathered lace that overall is a textured reddish shade BUT has blue and red and purple and orange and yellow in it.....however you have to look CLOSE to see that...... i want to bead that one with purple amber and ruby colored beads...... i swear in another life i was a romney gypsy and most likely also a quadroon in the big easy.
jen keeps trying to get me into greens......ahem, NO
i like my bright gypsy colors and i continue to seek out the bright and warm colors.

bernie is working saturday. that sucks big time as my BD is tuesday, which i will be spending alone
i will also no doubt be feeling seriously sorry for me as well.
he won't remember a cake for me either....last year i had to ask if he was going to make me a cake.....
he'd forgotten
he works too hard and too many hours i think

in duck news, phoebe has abandoned her paper feed sack that she's took to laying in and went back to her dishpan under the sink
so because we were running........ AND she didn't want to come out
phoebe got to stay in the house all day
today she is going out FIRST
the others will all be bathing and i am going to have to flip a burger i think for them and the chickens
since i wasn't home all day yesterday, the pullets ate their eggs
i wonder why i haven't brought them up to mark yet.......but i will
their egg eating days are numbered

with the rain the past few days (not yesterday or sunday though) the seedlings are UP outside
spinach is really really up.....chard is up but not as much it would like it a bit warmer
the lettuce and pakchoi would like it a bit wetter!
mother nature will have to sort it all out

i am thinking....... the animal population in the house is about at max, what with snowy eventually coming and we'll be getting more ducks
i would like a few more parakeets as they are flocking birds, and i will get two more buff orpingtons as they are the BEST chickens........but then that's pretty much it, until we move to a farm
i would like to top flight the entire garden and turn the chickens out daily, and i think i am going to try and figure a way to do that. it would make working in the garden so much more pleasant not to be feasted on by TICKS

now today after ducks......come supper and dishes, then i really need to do some tax stuff and drawing work.
 i should do some spring cleaning but really if i do some hand laundry that will be a lot.
i have to start putting the winter clothes away too....so they all need to be washed
it's so back and forth with weather now i am not looking forward to doing this
i have the warmer clothes to freshen up and iron etc too
i think for some stuff i will go the lazy route and put them in mesh bags in the washer with delicate....
then just either lay them out or hang them
sweaters are always a problem for me to dry as i lay them out-even the machine washable acrylic.

the woodstove is lazy too today, it's burning but not hot
and it's pretty cold out......like 34!
ok i am going to poke up the fire now
so ttyl