A Real Vacation Day

42 Degrees in Rochester this morning and 45 in Brockport!  Yikes!  Plenty of sunshine and it did warm up a bit.  Little Wonder and I went out in the garden looking for raspberries to take to bridge this afternoon.  Ended up with cucumbers and tomatoes instead.

The pastures are starting to come back and I should be able to get them in shape when I mow the next time.

On my way back to the house I found some dahlias that had fallen over so I brought them in.

At 12:30 I left the farm to pick up Hanny and Bobby and headed out to Linda's.  She lives on Lake Ontario and it was a real treat to be next to the water.

Linda is the person responsible for me getting back into teaching and I wanted to check out her latest painting, which is in progress.

She is also a talented quilter and made this for her son out of his old jerseys.

Another example.

Eventually we played bridge and did not stop until after 4.  Plenty of fruit, veggies etc. and I behaved myself.  Much improved over yesterdays disastrous numbers.

We had pineapple upside down cake for dessert which was gluten free and delicious!!!

This was a great escape for all of us.

Home around 5:30.

Poached eggs and toast for dinner.  Back on track.

Night all.

 

Delivery

Another cold morning and it's going down into the 40s tonight.

Scott was here early putting more stuff in the dumpster.  We are going to add more too.

Mid morning Dunn's Furniture delivered our two new couches.  I had the old one ready to go and I'll bet some college kids will end up with it.

The two guys doing all the work did a great job.  They had to take the door off to get things in and out.

After they left I went upstairs to check out the loft....the mess met my expectations.  They told us this would happen when they ripped off the roof.

This is the upstairs bathroom...very farm like.  Have to go through it to get to the loft.

Bridge today.  It was my turn to make dessert for the birthday person of the month.  (Ann S.). Gary picked raspberries for me before he went out for coffee at Dan's.

I made biscuits and served raspberry shortcake. Yum.

My partner and I came in second.

So here is one of the couches.  (They are in our kitchen near the wood burning stove.  The room is 18X32 and it is where we spend most of our time).

The other, is protected from LW who likes to look out the window....especially when we are gone.

Didn't go crazy, and picked something very simple....classic.  I would have loved a gazillion dollar leather sectional but Gary would not have liked that.  Besides....they are way too expensive.

We went out for dinner and of course I pushed it.  Had a chicken Cesar wrap and a couple of onion rings.  Gary had to take over the majority of them.

Home before 7.

Before dark I checked out the back garden that was covered with hundreds of pounds of shingles yesterday.  It was not as bad as I expected.

Fortunately the majority of it was fine.

The moon appeared.

Night all.

Early to Rise

By 7am the Roofers started to arrive.  From then on, it was a noisy, crazy day.  As if that was not enough, a man came to do the fall check on our furnace and I had a couple people over for class.  The driveway was jammed and Little Wonder was not too hot for all the confusion.  The first thing they did...draped this fabric stuff over the sides of the house.

They started taking off the layers of shingles and soon thereafter Scott had to come over with another dumpster and took away the other.

What a mess.  While all that was going on my students arrived and Gary directed them to safe parking spots.

I only had two today as my next session is really supposed to start on October 7th.  It was extremely relaxing.  We listened to music and they made great progress.

Anita started adding colored pencil to her painting.

Little Wonder supervised.  I think he was happy to be out of the house,

Cassie added to two of her paintings.

I think she is really getting the hang of looseness.

By the time they left, almost all of the new plywood was on the roof.

I will be interested in seeing Gary's kitchen garden tomorrow as tons of shingles were thrown on it.

They worked their butts off and got everything done before dark.  I'll have a better look at it tomorrow.

Gary worked on his raised beds and kept an eye on things most of the day.

This morning he made another batch of sauce.

Little Wonder was definately interested in going for a walk to the Back 40 by late afternoon.

It's his little groove.

Dinner was very blond.  Pork medallions, sauted cabbage and.....more fresh applesauce.

I need some chair time!  Yay! tomorrow my new couches get delivered.

Roger!  Glad you and Tina enjoyed the pasta sauce.  More is on the way.

Night all.