Sunday Update - Week 51

We're almost done with 2021.  Yay!  That's the great thing about the end of one year... There's always hope for next.

This past week... the week of Christmas... went about as expected.  I did some editing, but not as much as I would've liked.  I got thirty-seven pages done and added about 300 words.  I'm at pg 116 out of 351 pages now.  I spent part of Friday undoing some things I did book-wide because I got to a part where the changes didn't make any sense, so I undid them.  

I uploaded 5 books to Draft 2 Digital.  There are only 4 books still wide with Amazon - the SCIU books and Project Hermes.  If you haven't read them in KU, you better get started.  DE and EG drop out on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.  FG drops out on January 14th and PH drops out on 1/20.  

It was a pretty good reading week, but with Christmas, my update was delay to tomorrow.  I hope to finish the book I'm currently reading today so it can go on that update, too.  We'll see.

On the baking front, I did cake cookies with chocolate stars pressed into the middles and another pumpkin cheesecake.  (Note, do not buy cheap brown sugar again.  It's missing flavor.)  I also did a stuffed turkey tenderloin, a pot roast, and yesterday's big ol' ham.  Wow, that ham was amazing.  If you can find the, I totally recommend Frick's Meats... a company name that lends itself to my calling it 'the best frick'n ham'.  (I think it's a waste the company doesn't use that slogan.  Hubs says it's in poor taste and they don't want their hams to taste poor.  Ba dump bump.)

In activity news, we spent four days this week working on the front flower bed.  It's all dug up and new dirt/fertilizer/etc. has been added.  Hubs has about 2/3rds of it turned so the new dirt mixes with the old.  He'll do that to the rest of the bed today.  I also did a little cleaning.  Weight: ?  I'm not crazy enough to weigh myself right now.

One day this past week was spent driving to the county seat, so we could visit the title company and close on our new strip of land.  .32 acres worth.  It was our Christmas present to each other.  This coming week, we plan to take our pretty pink string and run the property line, drive a few stakes in... you know, mark our territory.  Part of the problem with that is a few large trees that have fallen across the line.  We'll figure it out.  We always do.  

This coming week ought to be filled with year-end stuff.  I never did work on those spreadsheets like I wanted to earlier in the month, so I have to do them now.  And I have to clean.  I've been such a toad about cleaning lately and the dust is starting to pile up to the point that I got sick of it and did some spot cleaning yesterday afternoon.  Gah.  Christmas cleaning?  No one is supposed to clean on Christmas.  Hell, I didn't even do the dishes.  Which I need to do right after I get this post finished.  LOL

Anyway, I hope you all had brilliant holidays and I hope the end of the year does right by you.  If not, there's always next year.  :hugs:

What were you up to last week?  Get anything good from Santa?

Thursday This n That

Today's bird of the day is a Common Loon.  I love loons.  

Yesterday, Hubs and I were out.  We went up to the county seat to do some stuffs and to have lunch.  We did the stuffs, but then the restaurant we wanted to eat at was packed, so we drove over to another restaurant we liked once and they were closed.  So we drove around some more and then we headed for home.  Along the way, we stopped at a local woodstove/fireplace store.  We weren't buying, but we wanted to window shop.  The dude there laughed at the phrase and asked if anyone actually 'window shopped' anymore.  Apparently, yes, because there we were doing it.  

The stuffs we had to do?  We went up to the title company to do the final stuff to make a little strip of property our very own.  Unfortunately, the wife couldn't show up - health issues and well, ultimate hermit lifestyle - so they gave him the paperwork to take to her and have her sign and get a notary.  Basically, the trip was pointless for us.  On the upside, dude took the papers, went all the way back home, met the notary there, wife signed the papers and the notary notarized them, then he took them all the way back, so we actually did close on that yesterday.  He stopped by the house afterwards so we could finish the last of it.  Long story short, this now belongs to us:

Yes, the garage was partially built over the property line and a several of my gardens were also not on our property.  And the south yard we mow.  And a third of our driveway...  Although our neighbor is awesome, it's nice to not have to think about that anymore.  We went from an oddly shaped rectangle 132x409x140x409 to a parallelogram that's 160ft front and back by 409ft on the sides.  Everything that belongs to us now belongs to us.  And those are our black walnut trees there.  Mine mine mine.  Bwa ha ha.  Our empire grew by a third of an acre.  Yay!  Today a little strip, tomorrow the world.  ROFL

By the time the day was through, I was not inclined to edit.  So I didn't.  =op

Not too far along the highway from here, we saw two eagles circling in the sky.  Beautiful, big baldies, with their white heads shining in the sun.  And I could hear them screaming to each other.  Too awesome.

We finished digging up the front bed.  And after we were done and had removed all the rocks, the bed is lower than before.  And it was too low before.  So we need dirt.  I went to Wallyworld to get some last minutes stuff before the holiday and thought I'd get dirt while I was there.  Dang, dirt has gotten expensive!  I ended up getting three cubic yards of  cow poo.  It's supposed to help the soil, and that soil needs it, lemme tell ya.  I expect that today, I'll be spreading poo on the garden.  Then I'll put the remaining dirt we already had on top and hope it gets close to the height I actually want for that garden.  

Okay, that's it for me.  Now I'm going to chill out in my recliner, read some and watch a little TV.  How are the this n thats in your world?