A Rube Goldberg weekend....

Mostly it was a quiet weekend, considering the alternatives.
No tornadoes, no fights, no broken bones, no bad news from abroad....

Saturday was good, we went grocery shopping, after which I retreated into the bedroom to read, and Wheelie watched movies....
It was a cold day, Dutch weather, wet, dark...I had the heater on, even though it wasn't cold outside, inside the house it just felt so chilly.

Sunday started out fine. We slept late (if you can imagine 8:30 late) and went to breakfast at the Cracker Barrel.
When we got home, the Goldberg thing started to roll.
Wheelie didn't quite make it to the bathroom in time...happens now and then...thankfully we were at home this time, as we've had to deal with it in public in the past as well.

Once when we were hopelesly lost in Atalanta somewhere, trying to find the new Ikea store...
It was an interesting experience. Bugs was with us. We were lost, I had to 'go', and so did he. I panicked, knowing full when what THAT meant. No stores in sight, no bathrooms. We were in some sort of industrial area, many weird little buildings. Not exactly the 'white' part of town either. I found a building that had some decent cars parked in front and looked like I could get the wheelchair in.

I went inside, asked the receptionist if we could please use their bathroom. She looked at me funny. An older black lady came from 'the back' and I told her we REALLY needed to find a bathroom...bless her heart, she must have understood what we were up against, she opened the doors for us and helped us in.
Good thing I always bring a backpack loaded with clean clothes and paper towels, etc.
I think Bugs understood what a precarious issue this is, now that she was involved herself.
Anyway.

But....I digress....:>) I will do my "handicap access rant" later...:>)

Instead of reading the Sunday paper I spent most of the morning cleaning the bathroom walls, floor, toilet, hosing off the wheelchair, giving Wheelie another shower, and doing laundry.
While I had a bucket of hot soapy water to clean the floor, I thought I might as well clean the kitchen and diningroom floors as well (laminate.)
From there I decided to do the rest of the laundry, ironing, putting stuff in the closet, only to find I needed room, and started pulling winter clothes off the shelves.

I already did most of my own clothes last week, but now I saw that I could easily pack up a bunch of winter coats we had not worn in three years.

THEN I busted my big toe on the safe, which is located in the corner of our walk- in closet. I opened it up, and started going through it. (I remembered I need to find my certificate of citizenship if I wanted to apply for social security next year.)

Of course I got severely sidetracked, finding all sorts of stuff in there I forgot about.
I found my mother in law's birth certificate, as well as Wheelie's grandfather's, his half sister, his half brother, his own, his military papers.....
I sorted everything out, bundled up a stack of old passports, made seperate envelopes for each of our papers.
On the bottom of the safe are two thick envelopes with our 'love letters'
I wisely did NOT get into those, that would have meant spending the rest of the week reading them....I'll save that for later!

So now, with my closet re organized, my safe re organized, my bathroom, kitchen and diningroom clean, laundry done, ironing done.....I still had some adrenalin left, and we decided to go out to our garden center to see if there were any flowers available for my front porch.
Many of our local nurseries have gone broke since Georgia has been in a draught. Pike's Nurseries was no exception. Thank God they were bought out by a company that seems to have been able to keep the store pretty much as it was, actually, I like it even better.
We came home with a few nice, easy to take care for, plants, a few colorful impatients, a nice bright pink geranium, some other stuff.
And since I was on a roll, I managed to plant everything and cleaned up afterwards.
Even got a start on pulling out the wild strawberries.
At 6:30 I was totally pooped and very sore.
Time to fix dinner and watch the tube :>)

I am not going to do much about my side garden this year. The draught is still with us, and I am just too lazy to keep hauling our shower water and our dish water in buckets to water the plants.

So now I have just a few pots in the front, and hopefully they will grow big and luscious.

Perhaps I'll find a few hanging plants for the back porch later on. For now it's enough.

So today is Monday again. Bugs just called me and is on her way. We're going to Target. :>)

Love it!