this is a busy time of year for me; lots to do in the late summer/fall.
since here at TCS we have members all around the world, it may not be late summer where you live.
for today's Question of the Day --
What are some of the things on your 'to do' list for this season, for this time of year? (can be anything -- for example, mowing the lawn or mulching garden beds, going to the beach or to the mountains, getting ready for starting the new school year, skiing or sledding, swimming in a pool/stream/lake or going to a bbq/cookout, or etc)
i'll start!
it's late summer here, and i've got a mixture of more fun things and chore-like things on my 'to do' list.
i'll start with the chore-like things:
since here at TCS we have members all around the world, it may not be late summer where you live.
for today's Question of the Day --
What are some of the things on your 'to do' list for this season, for this time of year? (can be anything -- for example, mowing the lawn or mulching garden beds, going to the beach or to the mountains, getting ready for starting the new school year, skiing or sledding, swimming in a pool/stream/lake or going to a bbq/cookout, or etc)
i'll start!
it's late summer here, and i've got a mixture of more fun things and chore-like things on my 'to do' list.
i'll start with the chore-like things:
- stack firewood. my last load of firewood will be delivered this coming wednesday, and between that and the rest of the previous load i've got roughly 13+ face cords left to stack.
- trimming down my flower garden beds. i'm working on reducing the amount of time i'm spending working on my flower beds. so i'm leaving a selection of flowering plants throughout my garden beds, and trimming down everything else. my goal is to be able to simply mow the lawn and around those select flowering plants, and use a line trimmer to touch up around those plants as needed.
- clean out the wood stove chamber, and clean the chimney pipes
- comb snick's hair -- this is a chore because snick does not enjoy being combed. poor girl sheds quite a bit during the warmer weather, and her coat is so thick that the sheddy hair doesn't come out on it's own.
- move snick's sub-q fluids cases upstairs -- so they don't get overly cold in the basement during the winter months.
- order more fluids and needles/giving sets for snick's sub-q's. i order to last us through the next year, and it's important that snick's fluids arrive before it's cold enough that they could freeze in transit.
- put the storm windows down.
- add another blanket to the bed, and at some point during the fall will change to microplush or flannel sheets.
- continue mowing the lawn until the grass stops growing sometime this fall.
- soon enough the leaves will start falling from the trees, and so begins raking the leaves.
- i have a little project i just added to my 'to do' list. i'll be making a shelf to hold my computer power strips and routers. i've got some boards out in my mini barn, sandpaper, wood stain, and tools to do the job. i'll just need to buy a couple "L" brackets to use in mounting the shelf to the wall.
- making raspberry-peach freezer jam
- (possibly) making some peach butter and freezing it
- making some applesauce and freezing it
- i'll start baking again this fall
- planning Christmas gifts, especially for my snick and jaspurr
- i'll enjoy setting up my new computer system this fall
- and i'll take out my new lawn tractor with the snow blower attachment, to get used to driving that and handling the snow blower controls. my old lawn tractor uses more of a standard/stick shift idea, and the new lawn tractor is an automatic. i'm actually looking forward to the snow this year, because i'll be using my snow blower on the lawn tractor to remove 95% of the snow this winter -- just shoveling little areas like in front of the doors.