We both woke up early

this morning. Now that it is so light in the morning it's hard to stay in bed until the alarm goes off. So we got up earlier than usual and I was out the door walking a little after 6:00. A bright sunny morning, which was just perfect for walking. I walked the paths through the woods and around the neighborhoods and walked 6 miles.
Click on the photo and you can see the deer better. I think she looks pregnant. What do you think?
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Remember Peter Falk in Columbo? We picked up a DVD from the library this weekend and watched an episode last night. I don't think I'd want to watch a whole season but an episode or two is fun to watch.
Another DVD we picked up was Deadwood. A western series that I thought was just awful. I didn't like it at all!! It's one of those shows where they say "the bad word" two times in every sentence. We didn't even watch one complete episode.
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After breakfast, the first thing on my list of things to do today was laundry. Did that and hung it out to dry. Then I drove over to the old house and mowed the lawn - back and front. My friend Lin stopped by again and I spent the same amount of time talking to her as I did mowing the lawn. :-)
I also picked up some branches that had fallen down and got a bit of weeding done too. I got a grass cut on my finger - ever get one of them? Ouch! It's just like a paper cut.

Next home for some lunch and I made another loaf of bread. The bread came out perfect this time. When I took the dough out of the bread machine and put it in the loaf pan I let it sit for a bit to rise slightly while the oven was preheating. I then baked it at 375 for 32 minutes. I have been experimenting with baking time and I finally got it perfect. Yes, I did eat a piece. Just a very thin slice. It's so good it doesn't even need butter.
Then there was the ironing to do. I ironed Ken's shirts while listening to an audio book. I'm listening to, Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark. She lives in the part of NJ where I come from and I recognize a lot of the names and places that are in her books, which is kind of neat.
After ironing, came time to do my exercise DVD which I really had to make myself do because I really DID NOT want to do it.

And now here it is almost 4:30 and I seem to have run out of time for cleaning again today. I really meant to do the upstairs. That will have to be put off until tomorrow.
Next up for me is to have a drink of ice cold water and then I'm going to read for a while until Ken comes home.

Since we are completely out of ice cream I think after supper a trip to Weis for ice cream sounds like a great idea.

I hope you are having a happy day this Tuesday and if not, look a little harder and you will find something that makes you smile! :-)
Happyone :-)

My nice weekend

continued into Sunday with a visit from our friends Jackie and Kerry. They came over the house in the afternoon and we got steamed shrimp and salads from the Giant across the street. We spent the afternoon eating, talking, laughing and having a great time. The weather was sunny and bright after some morning rain. I also received a beautiful bouquet of white roses with a touch of pink to them and a hanging basket of ivy which I'm going to hang in front of the living room windows. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sunday morning I took the day off from walking!! Aren't you surprised!!? I did get back to walking this morning though with a nice 6 mile walk around the lake. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Meals on Wheels day for me. I had 7 on my route today and all of my people are doing fine. Mrs P told me how much she enjoyed the cookies I baked for her. I'll have to bake her some more for next time. :-) Mrs M really is off my route now and I missed seeing her today, but I got a new lady, and she is a Mrs M too! A very nice woman who I think will be another one of my favorites. I had a bit of trouble finding her house so I continued on my route and then went back to find her after I was finished with the others. The office is NOT very good about giving directions. It's a bit of a challenge sometimes to find the houses. I am really bad with directions anyway so when I get a new person I'm am always relieved when I find their house!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've just had a bite to eat for lunch and this afternoon I'm hoping to do a bit of house cleaning and and then have some time to sit out on the deck and do a little knitting or reading. We are having a beautiful bright sunny day again, just like yesterday. I have the sheets out on the line right now and my first chore will be to put them back on the bed. I have a feeling I'm not going to get that much done today!! I still have quite a few blogs to catch up on too. :-) Oh well, there is always tomorrow for cleaning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I wasn't going to mention that it was my birthday Saturday (the real Memorial Day)but word got out so I just want to say THANK YOU all for the birthday wishes. I might mention here too now that Kenny made me the most delicious cake you could ever eat. It was a 4 layer chocolate cake. Between the layers was chocolate pudding and raspberry jam and then he put real whipped cream that he whipped up with a little sugar for the icing. The whole cake is gone already and every bite of it was mouth watering good. I'd better do a bit of extra walking this week!! :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Enjoy your Monday and I hope you're having some bright sunny weather in your part of the world too. Happyone :-)