What's on your agenda for today?

It's almost 11 a.m. now and I haven't done anything except eat breakfast and get dressed. I'm hoping to be able to stay home for 2 or 3 days because every time I leave the day is shot! Usually the first thing we do when we get home is take a nap. About Tuesday we'll go down to our daughter's and visit and then house sit on the week end while they go out of town for their anniversary. The highway to get down there is closed now due to mudslides so I hope that turns out OK. I guess hundreds of vehicles have been stranded. On another highway down that way a bus load of high school students are stranded. They are from our area up here and they were coming back from touring something in Santa Barbara. I think a college but I can't remember for sure.
 

Working as usual. Put some chicken thighs in the crock pot with fresh lemon & garlic this morning. After work and after feeding doggie, I think I will pick up some white wine; haven't had any for quite awhile. Then, relax.
 
If you'll share your wine, RR, I'll be right over.

After feeling smug for having cleaned up around here and getting the laundry done, DD came in a little while ago and told me I have a flat tire. A flat two-month-old tire. Yanno what? I don't have another $200 to get it replaced:mad: If it was just a nail, there would be a slow leak. Grandson said it wasn't flat when he came home from work last night.

RR...on second thought, might you have two bottles of wine?
 

I was talked into a short bike ride this morning even though it wasn't even 50F. Bundled up but still cold, but on the way home it was fine. Had lunch in the cafe and wandered around the gardens. Colours are not at peak yet.

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GeorgiaXplant said:
If you'll share your wine, RR, I'll be right over.

After feeling smug for having cleaned up around here and getting the laundry done, DD came in a little while ago and told me I have a flat tire. A flat two-month-old tire. Yanno what? I don't have another $200 to get it replaced:mad: If it was just a nail, there would be a slow leak. Grandson said it wasn't flat when he came home from work last night.

RR...on second thought, might you have two bottles of wine?
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Georgia, lol I ended up feeling too tired after work for any wine. But next time, for sure! Maybe the tire can be plugged instead of buying a new one?
 
RadishRose said:
Annie nice photos. The first one is spectacular! Why does it look so pink?
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Thanks. It's an Acer, I think it's called a Maple in the US. It will soon be totally pink - autumn colour.

I used to photograph this Acer tree every year in autumn but it died of disease. It was located very near the tree I shot today.

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Annie, thanks. This last one is frameable!

I checked out Acers in pink... yes in the maple family, but I have never seen a pink one, even though I live in New England with tons of maples with leaves of red, gold, orange, bronze, etc in the autumn!

Cool beans.
 
RadishRose said:
Annie, thanks. This last one is frameable!

I checked out Acers in pink... yes in the maple family, but I have never seen a pink one, even though I live in New England with tons of maples with leaves of red, gold, orange, bronze, etc in the autumn!

Cool beans.
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Oh, you'll be getting amazing colours soon, if you don't have them already. On our trip to New England last month we all could tell some of those roads would be breathtaking in a few weeks.
 
That Acer is spectacular. Like Radish Rose.....despite the abundance of maple trees in New England...have never seen a tree that turned pink. Even though I do not like pink flowers/foliage, that tree is beautiful.
 
ndynt said:
That Acer is spectacular. Like Radish Rose.....despite the abundance of maple trees in New England...have never seen a tree that turned pink. Even though I do not like pink flowers/foliage, that tree is beautiful.
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It's gorgeous. I also love cherry blossom trees.
 
Yawn , boring :eek: Starting a big job we both don't really like doing and that's painting inside the house , we are starting in the passage at the front of the house ,not going to tackle too much at a time just planning on finishing the passage today it's a bit of a pain it has five doors off there but I useally mask the frames and skirting boards, with blue painters tape ( we painted two of the rooms off the passage before going away during the winter ) Next week we are planning on tackling the kitchen, dinning and family which are all one big room at the back section of the house .The house is only just over 9 years old but when you get a home built the painters use a fairly cheap paint which is only a type of cheap undercoat , we are using the same colour and it makes it a little hard to see where you have edged as its only a light off white
 
Annie, you sure live in a beautiful area! I saved the 2 photos of the acer trees, sometime I will try to incorporate them into a painting. I imagine the air really smells nice on your bike rides and walks.

Today I am going to do all the things I should have gotten finished yesterday. Cleaning house and packing. It's suppose to be about 85* but what makes it bad is the humidity, which we aren't used to here. I'm trying to unload my computer desk and get it out of my bedroom. It's just loaded with papers, and all sorts of stuff I seldom use. I'm thinking if I get rid of things or at lest put them in boxes in my shed my room won't seem so crowded and I can relax in there better. My daughter is giving us a tall, narrow, simple computer table without any drawers. I told my husband maybe if I don't have so many places to store stuff I can learn to live with out it. I made one big box full of writing tablets and spiral notebooks that I "got on sale" through the years. That's all going in my shed in a plastic storage container and then if anyone in the family ever needs writing material they know where to get it. You don't even want to know how many pens and markers I have. I think I have a fear of wanting to write something and not having a pen and paper. :( Anyway, that's the kinds of things I'm trying to deal with this week end. I'm having fun though.
 
Linda said:
Annie, you sure live in a beautiful area! I saved the 2 photos of the acer trees, sometime I will try to incorporate them into a painting. I imagine the air really smells nice on your bike rides and walks.
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All of Scotland is beautiful! But yes, my area is gorgeous as well. And the air is very clean. :)
 
I forgot to post again. Again! Actually, I left home at the butt crack of dawn to run down to my son's place, and when I got home had just plain forgotten to see what everybody is up to today, much less post.

It was cold last night, and if we had a tree like that one, Ameriscot, it would be pink today. We didn't even warm up to 70. Winter is definitely coming.

The flat tire yesterday has been plugged, thank heaven. There was a tiny little piece of metal lodged in between the tire treads. It didn't look like anything we'd ever seen before and even the guys at the tire store were baffled. Anyway, it's been fixed at no charge. Yay. I love "no charge"!

RR, you're on. Don't forget me next time, k?

Linda, I know what you mean...pens, pencils, tablets, notebooks. They seem to multiply when I'm not looking. When I AM looking, they're nowhere to be found so, of course, I buy more. I can just imagine my daughter going through all this crap after I've assumed room temperature. She's saying "What on earth was she thinking? Why did she just keep buying more pens?" LOL

Shali, yes. Cool beans.
 
Kadee46 said:
Yawn , boring :eek: Starting a big job we both don't really like doing and that's painting inside the house , we are starting in the passage at the front of the house ,not going to tackle too much at a time just planning on finishing the passage today it's a bit of a pain it has five doors off there but I useally mask the frames and skirting boards, with blue painters tape ( we painted two of the rooms off the passage before going away during the winter ) Next week we are planning on tackling the kitchen, dinning and family which are all one big room at the back section of the house .The house is only just over 9 years old but when you get a home built the painters use a fairly cheap paint which is only a type of cheap undercoat , we are using the same colour and it makes it a little hard to see where you have edged as its only a light off white
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Painting is something we need to do here too Kadee46. The inside of our house was painted 7 or 8 years ago. When I was real young I bought some white paint on sale for $1.99 a gallon and it was like using milk on the walls. Totally worthless. Since them I've learned to appreciate good quality paint. I think if we redid our house I'd change the colors a little and it'd just give the whole place a new fresh look. That's something to do when we have kids visiting us though, let them help us.
 
Georgia, butt crack of dawn! LOL!

Linda, when I painted our hallway white years ago - it had been peach - the store clerk talked me into buying the cheaper paint thinking she was being helpful. It was so thin I had to put on 3 coats. It's since been painted a pale yellow.
 

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