Summertime!

 Well, it is officially summer in the northern hemisphere.  The first week of the equinox was a HOT and HUMID one here. This week has been wonderful with rainy days and cooler temps, but the blast furnace is coming back... Butterfly bushes, Melissa, Salvia, Coneflowers, Daylilies, Garden Phlox are all in bloom.  It is definitely my happy place!

Old Business:

• Picked up Hands Heal which is a guide for LMTs on insurance work. Yea, I've been doing it for awhile, but thought the book might help smooth out some of the rough edges.
• Doing OK with chores, but sometimes I get to one that takes more than a day to get done, and find that it then lingers for way too long, and my brain won't let me jump over it to the next one.
• Have been good at planning small things to do at work to keep some momentum and make sure things are done in a timely fashion.
• Started reading the Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. Fascinating!
• Still doing NCBTMB test prep instead of trail guide
• P4S still bad
• Magazines are good.
• Have my pulmonology consult the end of July.  The really hot/humid days I notice are hard.
• Finished 020's version of what makes you smile LO, now I need to put away some memorabilia and decide what is next.
• Garage - definitely ebbs and flows.  I've been working on mulching flower beds (see more below) and got to the spot where I want to put the rainwater tank, so that's out of the garage now. Trying desperately to not put  more in it!  LOL
• Guitar - I'm at 40 weeks! That is super exciting!  Just wondering when I'm gonna get good at playing! LOL
• Guardianship still needs to be done, and I have it on my short list to do finally.

New Business:

• The electric company has been going through doing tree trimming around the power lines, and they have very generously dropped off 3 truckloads of chipped/shredded wood for me! It's a lot! Has come in very handy, and I have managed to get all of the front & east side of the house done, and bits and pieces of other places around the fence as I've been transplanting/planting new. I've done probably close to 40 wagon loads, and you can barely tell!  LOL
• We had State Education conference and board meeting at the beginning of June.  That was so good and I received an award for my volunteer efforts that I do.  I was so surprised and it still just about makes me want to cry!  So sweet!
• Stick pile is actually growing now as I've trimmed several bushes, and we've had storms that have knocked more branches down.
• Baby brother spent another weekend with me, and this time we DID get to ride the lawnmower.  He was super excited and would wave as we were buzzing up and down the yard, just like we were a parade.  It was so cute!  Of course, we also had hamburgers and milkshakes, and went to church.  He's so much fun!
• Stained the back steps.
• Found a free desk, older student kind, that I'm going to build up a bit, and put castors on and that will be my saw workbench.  I'm excited to get that project done.
• Also need to do bench repair.
• And scrub north facing window frames and paint the ones that didn't get wrapped.
• And paint the doors.
• Have zucchini, peppers, and tomatoes planted.  And rhubarb!!! Volunteer cukes in the compost!