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Recap of March 2024

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I promised to expand on some of the events mentioned in my last post.

In February, I was knitting along on my Easy Mosaic socks when I (well, Mr. Aitch agreed) decided to host a family reunion AND anniversary party for us. We married in 1974 and wanted to celebrate the occasion with family and friends. I had four months to get it all organized, which (for someone who never planned much of anything involving more than two handfuls of people) got me into a slight panic.

The brass light fixtures over the breakfast table and island needed updating. Plus I wanted to get new carpeting throughout the house but first wanted to stain the stair treads on each side of the carpeting a darker color.

The new light for over the table was ordered. Mr. Aitch and I installed it in mid-March.

The light fixture over the island was installed in June. I forgot to take a before picture but it was just like the one over the table. I am not an electrician, however, we got both lights up and running without issues other than locating the correct breaker to turn the power off.

We celebrated Pi Day 3.14 with Turkey Pot Pies and an Apple Pie. The turkey was part of our Thanksgiving leftovers which I froze for this very day.

Up next is April.

Have a great weekend!

Patti

Snow Day

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Winter Storm Ember brought about 6-7 inches of snow to our area over the weekend.

Snow storm Ember 2024
About 4 inches at this time. Two more inches before it’s all done.

Pepper got to wear her new sweater outside to play in the snow.

She followed Mr. Aitch down the driveway behind the snowblower. But she ventured out into the snow soon after that.

Snow storm Ember 2024

It was snowing pretty heavily before he finished. This was the last part and it’s already starting to get covered again.

Snow storm Ember 2024
Not boots…
Snow storm Ember 2024
…snow caked legs!

Pepper does not have booties on. That is snow caked in her hair! It took 20 minutes with the hairdryer to get all those icy clumps out!

Cutting the cord

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Well, we did it. We cut the cord to our landline and only have our cell phones for calls.

We cut the TV cable cord years ago and have been just fine without that squawk box. Quite frankly (IMHO) there wasn’t much on TV worth watching. We stream what we want to watch and can back up, pause, stop, and forward as we please.

Of course, we still have internet. That is something we would have a hard time doing without.

So many people have either used their cell phones forever and never had a landline at all or gotten rid of the landline in favor of a cell phone. 99% of our landline calls were telemarketers anyway.

Do you use a landline, cell phone, or both?

HousekeepingI

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My sister and I helped our mother clean on Saturdays. That included dusting, vacuuming, and sweeping and scrubbing the kitchen floor. There might have been more but I just don’t remember. And we might not have done those things each week. Again, I just don’t remember.

I do remember that our mother had a system on whether to dust first or vacuum first. But which?

Dusting first would cause any dust to fall to the floor and then be vacuumed.

Or did vacuuming first cause more dust to settle on the furniture so dusting was done after?

Or does it matter as long as both get done?

Or is the real question: what is this chore called “dusting” and why should I care?

I dust and vacuum (occasionally…don’t judge) but not always on the same day. However, we are having people come for a few days and I really need to clean!