tuesday, now with april showers that better bring may flowers

and not may draught.
MR. PEABODY is demanding from across the room...... and what would his demands BE? ......why hot fancy feast with olive oil of course!
he's waiting in his fancy feast place, not so patiently.

i almost canceled the kitchen guy coming tomorrow. bernie's got a horrific cold, and i am not quite up to snuff either...i hope in my case it's just lack of sleep and not the plague from the pits of hell

i also almost ordered 10 years of black/ivory toile ..... i need it for that chandelier i am going to be covering, and i want to make odds and ends like placemats and such. possibly a shaped valance for the windows... they are having a 15% off sale.....oye
i also want a stripe and a small check to match oh man....
i think now i am going with the black and ivory, not the red and ivory..... (except in dishes) as if i go with black and ivory it makes things really easy for me all over the house...... i'll use it all over the downstairs.

hey i just noticed that it's seriously foggy out. (cause it's light enough to notice now)
i love watching the fog but hate going out in the fog
so i am going to wait a bit long to put our darlink little ducks out.
colette the chicken keeps trying to get out in the duck pens too.....she is an adventurous little thing.....who is hiding her eggies
actually maybe if i put buckets high in the back duck pen..i could make room in the front pens for the chickens...but really i do need another pen just for the chickens
no matter what colette says
i also was so hoping for a pair of sebbies this spring....
and a breeding trio of midget whites to breed for table.. as they dress out to just the right size for a small family....but the sebbies would just be wonderful amazing spoiled as rotten as every other animal here.......pets
if i could figure out how to make the doors for the big pen, i think bernie would roof it, then overwrap the wire with chain link so we can use it
THAT would save me some winter work i think....but we've already out grown it.
oye
there is so much to do and so many things competing for attention here
i still have several garden beds to put in plus the cold frame
the rain, damp, hot/cold/snow weather's been holding me up too.....i need to scrape the molding and trim around the front door so we can get the storm door up
then i need to sand and prep the front wooden door
i am going to replace the deadbolt.......just a new cylinder i think
and spray paint the face plate and the antique doorknob if i can't polish it up
like i said....so much to do that's weather dependent

last year was dry dry, but i was raising ducklings so didn't have the time......... plus family was in and out for visits every time i turned around.

this year i'll have the time as i am not raising anything (that i know of yet, unless someone wants to send me a pair of sebbie babies and a new pen...hahahahaha JK, we don't have wintering over space either at the moment)

now let's hope that we have a normal summer........not too dry not too wet
i still have painting to do on the stuff for my studio.
i am so behind on all that.
i think i need a planning secretary no?
oye
i am just looking around and realized that i need to stack the now warm wood in the cord holder .....we leave it out to warm up and then stack it to burn. and bernie still brings in about 3 days worth at a time, so i don't have to. ( i think he worries that i will just bring the woodcart in....he's right i will do that)

ok anyway that's today
i need to figure supper out too......i am thinking soup may be on the menu, if the weather does get cold like bernie said......and since he is sick......and i am reduced to one jar of stock, i probably should make and can some
oye
i need two or more of me
ok til next time

vi