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| A Sign at the Shopping Mall |
Last week went by in a flash, it seems! Since I didn't do daily posts, I thought I'll do a quick recap of the week, if only to remind myself of what I did!
After all the excitement of Easter Sunday, Monday was a quiet day. Daughter had work and I did a few things around the house, putting away a load of laundry I had done on Sunday, cleaning the kitchen, watering the houseplants (daughter watered the garden in the evening), and taking the trash bin to the curb for pick up on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, I brought in the emptied trash bin, went to the pharmacy to pick up my medication refill that was ready, and redeemed my Extra Care Bucks coupon for a box of cereal. Then, I did some paperwork and paid a bill. In the evening, after daughter finished her work for the day, we went to the library to return her books and to inquire about the free seeds that I had read about in the library's newsletter. Apparently, a local farm had donated seeds to the library and each of the City's 70+ libraries were given 200 packets of seeds to be given to the patrons, free of charge. However, when we asked about the free seeds, the librarian said they had all been distributed. She did mention that one of the regional libraries had started a seed catalog and we might want to visit them.
On Wednesday, I picked curly kale leaves from the garden:
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| Curly Kale from the Garden |
Later in the afternoon, M was here to tend to the garden. He bought me a bag of fertilizer for plants such as blueberries, azaleas, and camellias which like acidic soils. It cost $50 on sale, he said. Of course, I reimbursed him for the fertilizer. He brought me yet another rescue rose plant! It looks rather spindly, right now, but, it is a pink English rose, he said. His client had two rose bushes she wanted removed and he took one and gave me the other!
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| New Rescured Rose Bush |
On Thursday, I did more paperwork, put away a load of laundry, picked some curly kale from the garden, and used the last of the zucchini (from the Summer of Zucchini) I had in the freezer to make two loaves of zucchini bread:
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| Zucchini Bread |
On Friday, I went to the post office because I had a couple of pieces of mail I wanted to be date stamped before I mailed them. I also bought a book of stamps while I was there. Daughter had a day off from work and came with me to the post office. Afterwards, we went to Daiso, a Japanese store, where most everything used to be the equivalent of 100 yen. That is no longer the case and the lowest priced item there is now US$2.25. But, daughter loves going there for their craft supplies and other cute things and I love to try their snacks. They had a 40% off sale on some of their snack items and we bought several items, including:
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| Chocolate and Coffee Biscuits (I love these) |
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| Cookies with a Sweetpotato Filling (delicious!) |
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| Squid Flavored Crispy Batter-Covered Peanuts (also delicious) |
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| Raindrops on Roses |
On Sunday, I went back out into the garden to look for the missing garden tool that I couldn't locate the night before. Once again, I looked on the lemon tree, in the lemon tree, and under the lemon tree that M said he placed the tool and didn't find it. I looked on the other lemon trees, on the ground in the other parts of the backyard, and the area he had weeded, with no luck. I looked in the garage, in the shed, around the patio and back steps, and on top of the trash bins, because he sometimes leaves his tools on top of them, and there wasn't anything there. I checked the front garden, too, in case he took it out to the front and left it there. Finally, I looked inside the yardwaste bin:
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| Inside the Yardwaste Bin |
Do you see it? A silvery metal pipe-like thing? He had raked up the weeds and the curry leaf tree branches he had cut down and along with them, tossed the cutting saw into the bin!
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| The Pruning Saw |
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| Celery Stalks |
I washed them in salted water and lay them out to dry:
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| 20 Stalks of Celery |
And that was my week, last week. It wasn't a particular busy week, but, there was something happening every day. Mostly ordinary, everyday sort of things but they are the things that make up my days and each of those things make that day a little special. Harvesting produce from the garden, running errands, spending an hour shopping in a favorite store, finding a misplaced tool, baking zucchini bread and rehoming another rescued rose bush.
- Garden produce
- Being with my daughter
- Finding M's pruning saw
