Tag: decluttering

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Here is a peek into our week, in no particular order:

“Things That Zack Tried to Eat This Week”

This week I didn’t take a photo of anything that he tried to eat.  Not that he didn’t try to eat things other than his food and treats, I just didn’t get a photo of it.  However:

I posted this on my instagram.  I know, I have no shame.  This is what happens when you don’t vacuum for a week and half.  I have been vacuuming the den on Mondays and I got a stomach bug last week, so it didn’t get done.  Denton told me that I was going to blow up my Dyson.  I certainly hope not…..

I said its a good thing he’s so pretty.

Spring is coming!

Our lady was soaking up the sunshine.  We are supposed to get freezing rain on Tuesday, so we will enjoy the springtime while we’ve got it.  Right Hazel?  Right.

Our doorbell has seen better days, so I ordered a replacement and put it in a few days ago.

I was being blinded by the sun scorching my retinas and didn’t notice that it was crooked until I stepped back to take this photo and realized that I would need to take it completely apart and redo it. Sigh.

Much better now.  Have you ever noticed that when you finish one project there is another glaring out at you to get onto next?  Trim, your time is coming.  Not today, but soon.  Progress over perfection.  I have claimed The Flylady’s moto for my own.  Otherwise I would just curl up with a book and never do anything.

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So.  What happened in your neck of the woods last week?  I feel much better this week.  I hope none of you end up with whatever I had, it put me in the bed for two days and took me more days than that to recover.  I’m glad to be back!

Also the time change and the dog are kicking my petunia.  It doesn’t matter what the clock says, it’s time to get up and go see what we can see, says Zack.  I’ve never been a coffee drinker but I think my time has come to start taking it up……

If you are interested in what’s been happening in previous weeks, you can see them all here.

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Here is a peek into our week, in no particular order:

“Things That Zack Tried to Eat This Week”

Warning! If you are eating you may not want to see this photo!

This is Denton’s snoring mouthpiece.  They cost $100.00.  Zack chewed it up and ate part of it this week.  Neither Denton or I were happy about this.  There are many others on amazon, but if you or your partner snore, I HIGHLY recommend this one.  We have been married for over 25 years now and Denton has snored every single night of all those years.  I’ve tried to get him to have a sleep study done, but he will not even consider it.  This thing was his compromise.  It works.  Does it completely eliminate all of his snoring?  No, but I can tell you that 99 percent of it is gone.  He also doesn’t stop breathing in the middle of the night anymore.  Okay, my sales pitch is over.  I didn’t mean for this to turn into one, but when something works, I need to tell you.

My laundry helpers.   

Hazel is the sweetest little thing.  But I think that she’s also the most vicious of our fur babies.  She won’t hesitate to slice you open if you get in her way.  If they are playing with a toy, DO NOT try to interfere, lol.  Otherwise, she is the softest, most loving kitty we’ve ever had.

Little Leo in his patch of sun.  Koshka and Hazel were right there with him, but they decided that they didn’t want their photo on the internet today.

Liv and I did the grocery shopping Saturday morning and we stopped by our local thrift shop afterwards.  Sometimes I’m amazed at the things that they have on display.  It also makes me want to know why?!?  Why do they have six walkers at the same time for sale?  I could make up all kinds of scenarios to explain this…..

We have normal drinking glasses at our house, and then we have the big bubba version in glass that Hayden and Denton jockey over all the time.  I spotted this one on the shelf and immediately texted Denton and asked did he want this one to add to their collection.  Why you need 30 ounces of water at a time bumfuzzles me.  I like my water ice cold and by the time I got to the bottom of one of these glasses it would be room temperature.  But that’s how they both like their water, sooooooo.  You do you, is what I always say.  He said yes, BTW, so now they have a silver rimmed, worn version to add to the ones they drink out of.  Yes, I could just buy them a set of six or eight of these giant glasses, but where would they  I get my fun from then?  I like the hunt of the thrift store.  Also between me and Little Leo, all of those would be broken soon and I would have to order more.  

If you missed my quote of the week last week it was by Leonard Nimoy – whom I love.  I always like to try to include a t-shirt or something when I post them.  I loved this one.  I think Denton should buy it for me.  I wish it came in v-neck though, these circle neck t-shirts choke me.  Now I sound like my mama, hahaha.

After all the snow that we’ve had, it’s raining which takes me to my happy place.  Spring is coming!  Look at the size of that earthworm.  Also – does your dog curl his nails like a human?  Zack can and its very bizarre.  None of our other dogs have been able to do this.  Or if they could they didn’t.  If I’m sitting down when he wants to go outside he’ll come and put his paw on my knee and tilt his head.  Not the best way to indicate you need to go pee, but it’s something.  If I tell him to wait a moment, he’ll curl his nail into my leg like something trying to dig their nail into you.  He has giant paws, so we are working on this rudeness……

Last but not least, I posted on Friday what we’ve been watching.  Have you seen Schitt’s Creek?  If you haven’t, you should go read my post and then let me know when you surface again.

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So.  What happened in your neck of the woods last week?

If you are interested in what’s been happening in previous weeks, you can see them all here.

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Here is a peek into our week, in no particular order:

“Things That Zack Tried to Eat This Week”

A glue stick.  He also chewed up and ate part of a plastic coat hanger…I think that the cats are trying to kill him, since they are the ones who keep providing him with these things.  Leo will deliberately throw them at Zack and then watch with interest while I wrestle them away from him.

Our prediction for last weeks weather:

And what we actually received:

Thankfully our power stayed on and it melted within two days.

I found this little beauty on one of our walks a couple of days before the ice.  Spring.  I can’t wait.

This is the bag that I take to the grocery stores with me to keep all the cold stuff in.  As soon as it is emptied I find Leo like this.  

Zack isn’t allowed to be without me during the day – yes he is worse than an infant – so I find Koshka on his bed in our bedroom during the day while we are in other parts of the house.  He will NOT lay on any of the cat beds we have, but this giant dog bed is right up his alley, apparently.

If there is clean laundry to be found on a surface, you can bet there is a cat sleeping on it for me.

A perfect, tiny snowflake.

The ice or wind or both brought this little wasps nest into our yard and Zack has pounced, growled and barked at it every single time we go outside.  Denton said, Isn’t that funny how he knows it something to fear and be wary of?

I made a big batch of my perfect boiled eggs last week.  They didn’t last long.

Leo strikes again.  Sigh.

More stuff off to live at someone else’s house. I checked in with the new manager of our local Salvation Army about the candle containers.  I wanted to be sure that she didn’t just want me to recycle them.  She said, NO.  Bring them on.  She can sell them.  Win win.  Also, how do you store your Christmas ornaments?  I pick up vintage tins like the one above when I can find them.  But this one was weirdly shaped inside.  It had a depression on the top and on the inside bottom, which made the space only about an inch and a half in height.  That wasn’t enough room to hold any of my ornaments, so off it goes.I made another favorite this past week and I just realized that it wasn’t on the blog.  I’ll post the recipe on Tuesday.  It’s so, so good.

On Friday I posted about the show Dexter.  Have you seen it?  Do you agree with me?  Let me know!

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Groceries:  I spent our money at Walmart this week, coming in at a total of $88.93.  I was super excited to find a bag of White Lily flour marked down to $2.09!!!!  I usually can’t even find White Lily flour at our Walmart, much less find it marked down.  It was bleached and I prefer the unbleached, but I’m not going to argue at that price.

Also, do you pay cash for everything, use a debit card or a credit card?  I use our Discover card for almost everything and then pay it at soon as I get home, that way it’s just like using my debit card.  I get cash back from them and I use it for things that I was planning to buy anyway.  My last big “FREE” to me purchase with my cash back was my air fryer.  Now I’m eyeing curtains.  I am hesitating, because, cats who destroy curtains are a thing at my house….

February 20:  $88.93

February 13:  $127.09

February 6:  $102.87

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January:  $485.88

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So.  What happened in your neck of the woods last week?

If you are interested in what’s been happening in previous weeks, you can see them all here.

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Here is a peek into our week, in no particular order:

“Things That Zack Tried to Eat This Week”

I have no idea what this one is or where he retrieved it from.Sorry for the blurry photo.  Again.  This dog doesn’t stand still well.  He also tries to eat everything he finds along the side of the road on our multiple daily walks.  He dragged something out of the decaying leaves the other night that was literally decomposing, but I didn’t think that you’d want to see that……

Third week in a row that we’ve gotten snow.  I am very ready for spring.  I want to plant tomatoes and peppers.  Although it is pretty.

I was looking for my extra scissors and came across these glasses in Denton’s bathroom drawer and immediately texted him a photo and said “Woohoo! I found your extra glasses” and he texted me back and said, “Those aren’t mine….”  Oops, they are an old pair of mine.  Oh well.

Things that are being re-homed.  I actually loved that Martha Stewart dog food bag, but the design was atrocious.  It was very difficult to get into.  Which was a good thing when it comes to Little Leo, but a bad thing when your 110 pound dog is dancing around you while you are trying to open it one handed and fend him off at the same time.

More things that are headed to someone else’s house….

More clothes that have now been gone through and can leave my house, except for what I’ve set aside for my nieces.

You may have seen on Instagram that I put up a blind in my bathroom this past week.  This little project has been waiting for me to complete it for almost a year.  The kittens destroyed my curtains when we brought them home, and after I took them down, I just never got around to putting this up.  How perfect a fit is that?!?  I found these at one of my local thrift shops for $6.99 for two of them.  They glide up and down like a dream, and I LOVE them.  Now to patch the holes from the hardware and then I can think about painting sometime in the next four years….

I need this shirt.  

Have you read Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson?  It was my “What I’m Reading” book last week.  I have a new book that I’m about to start and I can’t wait!

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Groceries:  I spent my hard earned money at Food Lion and Walmart again this week.  The total for Food Lion came in at $15.69 and Walmart was $111.40 for our family of four.

Are your grocery stores still having problems keeping things stocked?  My local Food Lion can NOT keep chicken nuggets in their freezers.  I finally asked when they get their truck each week, so that I can make a run in on the evening that they unload to see if I can snag some to keep in the freezer.  I keep them on hand at all times for the kids to have a quick snack with.  What do keep for quick snacks?  I love my air fryer for stuff like that.

Also, they had one bag of White Lily flour and it had a HOLE in it.  That’s the only flour I use to make my biscuits, soooooooo.  Did you know that the reason White Lily makes such good biscuits is because it’s one of the few that uses soft winter wheat?  Most flour company’s use hard wheat.  If you can get your hands on some White Lily flour, you should try it!   But try to find it locally because those prices are insane.  I usually pay around $3.50 for five pounds.

February 13:  $127.09

February 6:  $102.87

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January:  $485.88

Fetch: if you use my referral code QF4TJ, you’ll get 2,000 points when you sign up.

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So.  What happened in your neck of the woods last week?

If you are interested in what’s been happening in previous weeks, you can see them all here.

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Here is a peek into our week, in no particular order:

“Things That Zack Tried to Eat This Week”

Sorry for the blurry photo.  Denton sent me this while Liv and I were foraging for groceries.  I said, “You left him alone, didn’t you?”  And Denton replied, “I was in the bathroom!”  Doesn’t matter bucko, this dog CAN NOT be left alone.  Ever.  A new pair of glasses are coming up for Denton.

His happy place.  We got about 3 to 4 inches of snow Saturday night.  

My mama said he looks sad.  I said, it’s because I told him it was time to go inside….

This was a wet, heavy snow.

I took this photo at around 8:00 am and the snow was gone by noon.

All of the things that I dropped off at our local Salvation Army on Saturday.  Do your kids match their socks?  Liv doesn’t. So when I dropped them off, I asked if that would be a problem.  Apparently most kids don’t match their socks, because they said no problem!  Also, can you wear a sleep mask?  I have tried three different ones and I hate them all.  I can’t stand to see light when I’m sleeping.  I know, I know, close your eyes Denton says.  I just can’t stand to even slightly open my eyes and see light.  But I seriously hate these things.
Little Leo strikes again.  He lives his perfect life to throw things on the floor.  It’s a good thing I buy drinking glasses at thrift stores…..Also, the goofy dog waits for this to happen so he can try to eat all the things… I told you, he CAN NOT be left alone.  Ever.

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Groceries:  I spent my hard earned money at Food Lion and Walmart this week.  The total for Food Lion came in at $19.97 and Walmart was $82.90 for our family of four.

How do you grocery shop?  I keep my beautiful, glorious garage freezer stocked with meat that I find during my grocery trips that are a super price.  That way each week when I need to fill up on fresh vegetables and fruit, I don’t have to pay full price when I want something.  It helps to keep my grocery budget within check.  How is your budget going?

February 6:  $102.87

January:  $485.88

Fetch: if you use my referral code QF4TJ, you’ll get 2,000 points when you sign up.

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So.  What happened in your neck of the woods last week?

If you are interested in what’s been happening in previous weeks, you can see them all here.