OMG, it's the 27th day already!

and I have been quite remiss in my blogging. Well, just got busy. We had a yard sale last week as part of our large spring purge and that sort of thing takes a lot of work. Then, after the yard sale, I bought a new lawn mower. I love my new lawn mower, and have used it twice in just five days!!!!

But enough of the mundane and on to the status of the LIST.

We need our third German phrase: Haben Sie eine Bratpfanne? hahaha I like this one.

Now, some other bits:

We have done well with our weekly movie nights, and this week we saw "The Christmas Card". It was a very saccharine movie from Hallmark, that, despite it's predictability, was enjoyable enough. I don't know yet what's on tap for this week's movie.

I now have 34 new FB friends, getting closer faster to that 55 goal. It is fun connecting with even more studio alumni! Everybody's all grown up - when did that happen?

I was almost ready to add two more birds to the list - a Great Blue Heron and a sharp-shinned hawk, except I am not 100% sure that's what they were, I am only assuming. So we will wait on that, because whoever they are, they live around here. To the birds, though, we can for sure add Goldfinch and Common Grackle, making a total of 11 now.

I have had THREE bouquets of fresh flowers, it looks like I may be able to have at least one bouquet a week. I have started working on the Magic Birthday Garden, too, having planted
three plants, of two varieties. Now, here is another conundrum - do I plant 55 different plants, or just 55 plants total? Geez, I think I made this too hard! :)

The exercising is going well, I am doing pretty close to 5.5 hours, but this week the practicing has slacked. I will get back on board with that, though, I promise! The weather has just been way too nice . . . I find myself wanting to pull weeds instead. I must be crazy. And, incidentally, if any of my students happen to be reading this, that doesn't mean I haven't practiced at all, just not 55 minutes every day, 5 days a week. Maybe half that, this week. Which is still more than you all do!


Tomorrow I will be posting a couple of more photos, if I can figure out how to retrieve them. Be looking!


Bis spater.