Friday Again

The end of another week. Not a bad one in all. Hit and miss on the productivity, but I feel as though things are a little more balanced than they have been which is a goal of mine. I don't want to hyperfocus on one thing and get nothing else done!

Warning - bit of a moan - I've done something to my 'good' foot. It's really painful - OUCH - constant pain. It started about Wednesday when I was out walking and felt as though my sock was bunched up under the middle of my foot and I was walking on bunched up hard fabric. Got home and there was nothing there. The side of my foot seemed a bit hard and tender when I pressed on it. Thursday morning - ouch, just ouch. Getting out of bed and stepping on my foot was OUCH. I went for a little walk and could barely step on it the rest of the day. When I'm walking it feels as though I've got something stuck up under the arch. Not any better today. Husband thinks I might have done something to the tendon - maybe actually did step on something and messed it up. It wouldn't surprise me as you can't always tell what's under the snow. 

I'm going to see if it gets any better over the next few days. If not, I'm going to have to go and have it looked at. I can barely put any weight on it at all. I can't just sit. I'll go crazy. 

Moan Over. 

I did go for a tiny walk today. I'm not going to do a lot of walking over the next few days, a shame as husband and I had decided a nice walk would be good for Sunday. I don't want to make things worse than they are though so we shall have to take a little one. It was actually nice enough this afternoon to sit on the back porch for a little while. A deer had decided to take a rest in the garden and was laying down close to our fence with the neighbour. 

Made me smile. She was there for quite a while, at least until I went inside. 

I chatted with Baby A today again. We played dolls for a while. Just a little over a month until we will see her - something to look forward to!

It was my father-in-law's 85th birthday today so husband took him out to lunch. They are going out again tomorrow. I'm going to go to Asylum Lake and sit by the beavers' lodge for a little bit and then come home and craft for a while!

What are your plans for the weekend? 

Sunday - a Little Birdwatching

Not much got done around the house today. Husband and I went out for a bit of a walk, though not for long. The afternoon was spent relaxing, reading, watching some Midsomer Murder repeats and messing around on the computer. 

Although it's been humid, it's been a little cooler the last couple of days so I've been sitting out for a little while on the back porch and watching the birds. We are having a lot of visitors to the garden, mostly parents with their fledglings. My favourites have to be the Blue Jays. They are just so funny. They have this tufty bit (I'm sure there is a proper name, but it doesn't come to mind!) on top of their heads and the babies don't seem to know what to do with it. They are also very loud. 

And they flap around a lot!

Even with the bird seed around they seem to know that bugs can be really tasty too!

Hope everyone had a good weekend!

Another Day...

Got up and went for a walk. It was a lovely day. Fairly warm this morning. Lovely and sunny. Looks like Spring might (fingers crossed) be finally upon us. Things are certainly starting to look a lot greener and brighter. 

After my walk I got all my errands done and came home to sit in the garden for a little while before husband came home. I've been watching this Groundhog at the bottom of the garden.  It comes into our garden to eat. I have persuaded husband not to mow a small portion of the garden for No Mow May. I'm not sure entirely what that is, but my understanding that is a way to try to get people to think about how they share their garden with animals and birds. Our garden is quite long and there is (admittedly) a wild bit at the back. Husband is just expanding that for a while. Because of the way our house and gardens are set up with our neighbours it isn't an eyesore for them. Most of the end of their gardens butt up with ours. 

I think (from what I've been told) that Groundhogs can be a bit of a nuisance. We're keeping an eye on it in case it thinks of undermining any structure near us!

Really likes all the grass. 

Another visitor we had this week was an Opossum

Not the prettiest looking thing (though those ears do remind me of Mickey Mouse!). They are good for the garden. They eat pests and are good for getting rid of ticks (ick, ick). It was out early Sunday morning though I've seen it several times at night. 

I'm off to bed. Think I've rambled enough lol. Hopefully back tomorrow. 

Another Week Done and Dusted

April is already whizzing by. It's only a couple of weeks until we leave to see daughter in Minnesota. I'm really excited as I haven't seen her since Christmas. She still has quite a bit of snow though so I hope it clears up before we get there! Speaking of daughter, this is her dog Shasta's gotcha day. Two years ago today she adopted Shasta from Northern Lights Sled Dog rescue. I can't believe it's just been two years! Daughter was so lucky with Shasta. We're not sure of her history but she's a really sweet, loving dog. Huskies can be a lot of work and some people who decide they can cope with them, really can't. It's such a shame. They sometimes get a bum rep but they can be really sweet dogs.

It's snowing here in Michigan today. Not much, just a dusting, but still enough! Hubby has made a couple of bird houses and one has already been claimed.

Hubby is convinced it's a he and he is puffing up calling to the females. He's been carrying bits from the garden into the house and has been sitting on the perch calling.

Slightly snowy walk this morning. Not surprisingly there weren't many people around. I like it when it's quiet. I can just walk, look and daydream.

I've been keeping up with my 100 day projects - thank goodness as it's only day 4! I'm trying to get some cross stitching done, but the light hasn't been good. It makes me sound ancient but I can't see the holes too clearly when the light isn't good. I shall probably give up on that and go back to the knitting. 

Hope everyone is having a lovely day!

Halfway through the week...

again. Time seems to just fly by. I've been working on my garden and, sort of, planning next year. This was the first year that I've planted some veggies. I didn't do a lot as I knew that I would be gone for 6/7 weeks and things wouldn't get tended to. I'm getting through all the weeding so the patches will be nice and good to go in the spring.

Our courgettes/zucchini did REALLY well. I had some really big ones. Peppers did pretty well. Potatoes were okay. They definitely weren't taken care of but I did get some. I need to do some research on kinds of potatoes next year as these were of the smaller kind. My lettuce failed miserably. The deer ate it all - pulled up from the roots. I would love to have fresh lettuce so need to come up with some sort of idea to keep deer and rabbits out. I did some onions, but definitely could have planted deeper and more of them. Next year I would like to do carrots too. My poor tomatoes died while I was in England. Apparently they had a lot of rain and hubby thinks they caught some sort of disease. He talked to some people at work who said they were having trouble with theirs. Pumpkins - only got one small one - there were two when I looked so something carried it off. We nowhere near got enough veggies to keep us going for any amount of time, but fresh veg was certainly nice. I am going to do some reading up this winter and be more prepared for next spring.

Talking of being prepared I am going to make a list of things to get ready for winter. One part of the list will be things that I could shop for before the snow comes. We get a lot of snow and cold and I don't like driving in it so if I could stock up before winter it would mean less trips out in the snow. I feel like such a chicken for not driving in the snow BUT I did only learn to drive when I was thirty so I'm giving myself a little break lol.