Feeling Accomplished!

Getting the floor redone with all the moving of things and cleaning involved followed by the same thing in the bedroom to have it repainted was a big job I had dreaded undertaking.  But it sure was worth it.  I am so pleased with the end result.  The picture above our bed just isn’t hacking it with the new, lighter color scheme so I have ordered a new one.  I sure hope it arrives before we leave.

Next up is work in our yard.  Two trees are to be removed.  Decorative wall reset from tree roots pushing on it, stone border to replace rusted metal edging, new rain sensor and sprinkler system checked out.  We have some heads now watering stones and grass not getting any water.  And I added some sod at their expense because gas or weed killer was spilled on a whole strip of grass!  When we had a new roof put on, they also added a gutter and down spout to the side of our house where the new deck is.  A heavy rain causes a deluge of water on a swath of grass that has since died from too much water and moss is growing in its place. So a bull rock creek bed will be installed to channel the water to the back fence.  It is a utility easement right behind us so the excess water will not harm anyone’s yard.  We still have some dead, tall bushes in the back corners from the Big Freeze.  We thought they would come back but some did, some didn’t.  He will clean the dead stuff out and when we return in the fall that back fence will be replaced and the corners replanted.  And I thought yards in Florida were expensive to keep up!  I guess this is what happens when you live in a house for 19+ years; our longest until this house was 8 years in our first Michigan house.  

With all of that under control I took time to join a half dozen neighborhood ladies for our monthly luncheon and the next day joined the Junior Forum Sustainers in Old Towne Spring at an historic restaurant that had a recent fire and just reopened, bigger and better.  A group of ladies can get very loud!

I have only one personal photo to share but have a few from family that I thought were especially good.  

Nephew Tim made this table and benches from a tree that was struck by lightning on his Indiana property. This is their Elk Lake KY home where this huge room was just added across the back.  The opposite end is a TV area.  Their whole family, 8 adults and 8 grandkids take up more room than the area still in use in the original house can accommodate.  We always spend time at the lake when we visit Cincinnati.  

This is cousin David’s son and daughter in law at the Derby.  WOW! on their outfits. 

Time is drawing close for our summer sojourn.  We have adjusted our route to add Cincinnati first as a stop for a funeral for Ted’s cousin who died recently.  Cousin Fr. Terry will come in from Chicago to say the funeral Mass.  We will then go to Shipshewana to get our chairs and from there go to Michigan in time for Morgan’s commencement.  We will return to Cincinnati to spend two weeks at the end of July.

Morgan has done so well in high school.  She was inducted into the National Honor Society, and is graduating Summa Cum Laude.  She earned the Talented Scholar Award scholarship and a Legacy Scholarship.  She will attend Oakland University in Rochester, MI.  She is our youngest granddaughter.  It was 15 years until CeCe was born as our first granddaughter.