Day: May 30, 2025

Dishes, and laundry as well as the lawn, and airing out my daughter’s taekwondo sparring gear, because lets face it, it was getting pretty ripe sealed up fresh in her bag in between uses. I have, what i believe to be anyway, finalized the funeral pamphlet we’ve created for great Grandma. We went through and edited the questions on the crossword puzzle to make it easier to understand. I enlarged the numbers to make the spots easier to find, and we added several new photos to the back to highlight grandma a bit better. She wasn’t always a senior citizen, she had a life before the fall, such as it were.

I was even able to run a few errands this morning before walking the dog, and running into an errant coyote eating a gopher down on the farm. See image attached. I had to pull over when driving, so he’d gotten out of quality photo range unfortunately.

Hard to see it from here but the coyote was about the same size as my German Shephard Lab mix. Had a bit fat rodent hanging from his mouth. My dog was oblivious of course. That was until we got out of the car, he caught a whiff, and fled back to the car without a second thought.

Now that last weekend’s traveling has gotten out of our system, and we are somewhat aligned with the usual schedule, I can get back to doing my normal activities around the house, and yard. I tackled the lawns and such shortly after my return Tuesday morning. Even went so far as to vacuum and clean the floors. I should schedule some time to wash all of the blinds, and light fixtures again, because they are just caked in dust. Yuck. Which reminds me, I probably need to swap out the furnace filters, and vacuum out the air vents at some point soon. I’d like to try to vacuum out the dryer vent too, as that usually has a good bit of fluff stuck in it.

Now that our Lilacs are spent I can cut some of the low lying branches back. No blooms to save now. Weather should be decent over the next week so I can air out the house when I work outside. Lots to do around here now that summer is on its way. Clean, clean, clean.

I can begin the school work purge soon too. Best to do that closer to recycling day as the kids get sad when they see old assignments going out to the curb. Can’t keep everything! I’m not a hoarder.