make hay while the sun shines, love it!

Quote by Marilyn, from Pa (Charles Ingalls), Laura Ingalls Wilder.


The deck is a work in progress. It's been a bear! The stripper, which was supposed to magically remove the old peeling stain, just apply and spray with a garden hose! ha. Of course not! So we stepped it up to the pressure washer, and well, wouldn't you know, there are experts out there saying to be careful, pressure washing can damage the deck. Sure enough, there were places where the top layer turned a little pulpy. That dries, and voila, splinters! So, we had to sand it. When I say "we", I mean these nice daughters of mine, Miss Sonja K., and Miss Evelyn Joy. Jonathan also took a few turns. The stairway isn't done yet, but it got dark out. I sprayed it off with the hose to get the sawdust off. Now it has to dry dry dry again, before getting stained.

It's a big deck, and it was a very warm day. When these two girls were finished, they actually had me spray them off with the house, it was hilarious. They are too much fun. We watched a movie last night, "What Happened to Monday", and the girls made midnight brownies from scratch. Well, it was only ten o'clock, but.

We spent a good portion of the day outside in the sunshine. First, Abigail and I took Jonathan out and about, he needed ammo. It can be hard to find, and since there were three of us, we could each get two, so he's nice and stocked up. We also got a nice little raft for summertime, and a huge-0 bag of salt water taffy. We went into Walmart, and let me just say: do not go there on a Saturday. It was not easy to social distance, and there are so many people who just don't seem to care about it. It makes my heart hurt, seeing some of the older people, so vulnerable, and I just hope they don't get sick. You can say to order your groceries, but it takes forever to get a time slot, and there is no meat available when you do that. So many older ones don't know how to do such things, either.

Anyway, it was a circus-y zoo in Walmart. The check-out lines extended right into the clothing section. I got Miss Camille a tank top and a pair of shorts, she is in women's sizes now, and is wearing little girls shorts from last year. We also got a bag of ice (our ice maker stopped working in the refrigerator, but oh how heavenly it is to fill it up, and just put your glass up to the little lever, and get ice!). (I grew up with ice cube trays, and that's what we usually use, but we can't keep up when it gets warm out!). So for $1.34, wow, right?

We got some tortilla chips and a green pepper and some olives for the pasta salad we are making for today.

Today, we are doing an outside picnic at Ben and Ashley's house.