What I Want
May. 10th, 2008 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday I've had a nice well-rounded day, both having fun and getting stuff done.
I washed laundry and dishes.
Then I got everything ready for banana chocolate chip pancakes. Then my sister came over and we cooked them and also had mixed fruit and chocolate milk that she brought over. Then I declined to go shopping with her (Target, Joann's fabrics, World Market) because I'm trying to spend less time in stores and more time dealing with stuff I already have.
Robin came home and I declined to go shopping with him (Breed and Co. Hardware, also cool).
Then I went to part of a garden tour. This year it had mostly houses in west Austin with things like terracing and waterfalls, so I decided to go to just the one garden that seemed the closest to what mine could be like one day. The back yard is twice as big as mine, but it's just as flat, and they have neighbors separated by fences rather than wooded areas, etc.
As you can see, it's quite a garden.
This guy likes making a lot of trails that end in little rooms. This one has possumhaw holly trees for the walls.
And this one is quite different.
It really is quite amazing what you can do with a back yard.
On the way home, I stopped and bought the stuff for Mediterranean dip and made it (recipe later). Then I practiced what I'm doing for the recital tomorrow.
Then I went to the local thrift store, mostly to warm up (my house is a freezing cold 74 degrees!) and get some walking in.
Then I started writing this, and then I got up to watch the hail fall. We had marble-sized hail, and it's fun to watch it bounce off the sidewalks. The bigger pieces even bounce in the grass. It looks kind of like popcorn popping.
It's less fun to watch it bouncing off the cars.
But still a little fun.
Isn't it amazing that you can get hail when it's ninety degrees outside? Oh, but am I sure it's still ninety degrees? Yes, we opened the door and could feel the steam rushing in!
So it's already been a fun and productive day and it's still only 7:30.
I washed laundry and dishes.
Then I got everything ready for banana chocolate chip pancakes. Then my sister came over and we cooked them and also had mixed fruit and chocolate milk that she brought over. Then I declined to go shopping with her (Target, Joann's fabrics, World Market) because I'm trying to spend less time in stores and more time dealing with stuff I already have.
Robin came home and I declined to go shopping with him (Breed and Co. Hardware, also cool).
Then I went to part of a garden tour. This year it had mostly houses in west Austin with things like terracing and waterfalls, so I decided to go to just the one garden that seemed the closest to what mine could be like one day. The back yard is twice as big as mine, but it's just as flat, and they have neighbors separated by fences rather than wooded areas, etc.
As you can see, it's quite a garden.
This guy likes making a lot of trails that end in little rooms. This one has possumhaw holly trees for the walls.
And this one is quite different.
It really is quite amazing what you can do with a back yard.
On the way home, I stopped and bought the stuff for Mediterranean dip and made it (recipe later). Then I practiced what I'm doing for the recital tomorrow.
Then I went to the local thrift store, mostly to warm up (my house is a freezing cold 74 degrees!) and get some walking in.
Then I started writing this, and then I got up to watch the hail fall. We had marble-sized hail, and it's fun to watch it bounce off the sidewalks. The bigger pieces even bounce in the grass. It looks kind of like popcorn popping.
It's less fun to watch it bouncing off the cars.
But still a little fun.
Isn't it amazing that you can get hail when it's ninety degrees outside? Oh, but am I sure it's still ninety degrees? Yes, we opened the door and could feel the steam rushing in!
So it's already been a fun and productive day and it's still only 7:30.