Birthdays & other April Happenings

Hello there Adventurous Friends, greetings from South Dakota. How you doing?  We're good here & hope you are too.  There were a couple of cases of Covid in our county this month.  The vaccine is available to those that want it when putting name on the waiting list. 

There were 2 birthdays, my Adventurous Guy & Daughter.  I worked a lot more hours on the job being short staffed.  Kevin took over some of the household duties such as the grocery shopping & cooking.  I planned activities & menus for Daughter & Grand's visits.  I'm so excited that time is getting closer!  We have a plan A, plan B, plan C & plan D as to how we're going to make things happen according to work schedules & when the new Grand decides to make his/her appearance.

April is Financial Literacy Month & Stress Awareness Month according to the Retiree E-Newsletter I get.  I did a little reading about how I might be able to improve my financial wellness & also read that all of us, not just me, experience some levels of stress & it ain't all bad.  This is my Sentence a Day where I write little somethings about each of my days, wrote in a loooong drawn out sentence or 2.   Here are others I've joined up with if you'd like to see what they've been up to.

* Thurs 1st - Ate pizza for supper sitting on the back of the truck up at the pond, watched geese & took a walk, looked for baby calves on the ride home, it's calving season.

* Fri 2nd - Messaged with Daughter, talked about moving in the direction of plan B for the Grand's summer visits, the hiring process is timely, everyone that wants to work already has a job or don't want to drive the distance out of their town.

Week 14

* Sat 3rd - Facetimed with the Grand's while eating breakfast, they showed me some of their Easter eggs from their dying eggstravanza, made egg salad to have on an Easter picnic lunch.

* Sun 4th - Headed out early, got home late, shared a chocolate rabbit with Kevin picniking in the hills along with a cracker buffet using the egg salad & some other toppings, did a lot of 4wheeler riding & walking, saw the 1st tick of the season crawling on my pant leg.

* Mon 5th - Heard a muffled noise that echoed in every direction while dog walking during lunch break, tried to figure out if it was birds or frogs or what, looked in the trees, there's no water in the pothole, later Kevin said it was 1000 sandhill cranes flying over, disappointed I didn't look straight up.

* Tues 6th - Got some much needed moisture overnight, big random snowflakes fell during 1st morning dog walk, thundersnow mid morning or the noise could have been a truck rumbling by since no one else heard thunder, the grass seemed so much greener during evening dog walk.

Grand playing the trombone in his high school marching band.  Football season
in their conference was postponed till spring due to Covid.  Go Bulldogs! 

* Wed 7th - Sold some Lions club Happy Day Award fundraiser tickets, read the newspaper, watched several episodes of Heartland with Kevin.

* Thurs 8th - Road up in the hills in the truck looking for turkey sign,  had our pizza picnic & did some walking. 

* Fri 9th- Long tiring week at work, went to bed early, did some reading to relax.

Week 15

* Sat 10th - A funeral, father daughter dance & prom, lots of dressed up people around town, made a birthday cake for Kevin, forgot about the ice cream, made a quick trip to the grocery store, thought I would grab a couple more packs of those strawberries that were on sale to put up in the freezer, they were out.

Happy Birthday, to my Adventurous Guy!
I made this fancy smancy cake for the
 occasion.  We ate on it all week &
 missed it when it was all gone.

* Sun 11th - Went to the big city, ate lunch at Culver's for Kevin's birthday eating out choice, he got a fish dinner, I got the single butter burger cheese basket, shopped at Cabela's using points, the leather shop was closed for getting Grand's bracelet crafting supplies, ran in Walmart, got a few things we can't get at our little grocery store.

* Mon 12th - Dreary, cold & windy with snow flurries, long full busy day at work, put away stuff from the shopping adventure, started menu list for Daughter's visit, played with Rose & her new toy, watched several episodes of Heartland, Kevin ordered the leather crafting supplies online. 

Driving to work thru the snow line.

* Tues 13th - Another dreary, cold & windy day with snow flurries, had to come up with something for supper, all the leftovers were eaten up, Kevin made grilled pulled pork, egg & cheese sandwiches.

* Wed 14th - Saw hundreds of sand hill cranes in a field on my drive to work, pulled over to look & listen for a few moments.

Is Grand # 8 a Boy or a Girl?
 My guess is a girl due to the high heart rate.
What's your guess?

* Thurs 15th - Ate our pizza at home looking out the window at the rain, made some cookies, watched several episodes of Heartland.

* Fri 16th - Surprised when looked out the window & saw the ground was white, had a conference call with Daughter & got plane tickets bought for the Grand's.

Week 15

* Sat 17th - Rode to the dump with Kevin then rode down the road to see the grass fire that was started from welding on a fence.

I didn't win anything but I sure did enjoy the snack.

A good little fishing hole.  There was snow
 on the ground in places.  The scenery was
spectacular.  Caught a mess of fish.

* Sun 18th- I noticed the black birds have arrived, they'll probably finish off the olive berries on the Russian olive trees, the grouse are gone, the turkey is still hanging around, took a truck ride up in the canyon, did a lot of walking & fishing, got whoppers & fries from Burger King for supper on the way home.

* Mon 19th - Had the cruise set at 65 driving to work on the clear dry road, plow truck went by, road turned wet then snow covered, slowed down to 35 mph, went to Lions club meeting after work, supper was provided by a fellow Lions member, the food was delicious, ate too much, next meeting is road side trash pick up & selecting scholarship winners.

* Tues 20th - Kevin cooked fish for supper, I made cookies.

* Wed 21st - Read the newspaper - masquerade prom theme, fire restrictions went into effect - no camp fires, the highway department is taking applications for a seasonal crew member; checked out a new series on Netflix called Dynasty.

Happy Birthday to Daughter, Kasey.
She's wearing the top I sent her for
her special day.

* Thurs 22nd - Paid the property taxes for the year, rode up in the hills, had our pizza picnic & went walking.

Check out this beaver dam.  Rose ended up falling in
the pond while she was sniffing around for the beavers.

* Fri 23rd  - Slept in, felt so good, Kevin was off work not me, had just enough time to take Rose out to do her business, ate a bowl of crunchy raisin bran cereal & grabbed my coffee to go, oldest Grand got his driver permit.

Week 16

* Sat 24th - Did a couple loads of laundry, finished the birthday box to mail to Moma, looked in photo albums for pictures of Daughter to use for a baby shower game.

* Sun 25th - Went back to the canyon again for fishing & walking before it gets too growed up & snaky, caught our limit, ordered our years supply of toilet paper - 60 rolls & soaker hoses for the garden.

Saw the mountain goats on the way to our fishing spot.
They were covered in burrs.

* Mon 26th - Kevin put together ingredients that made a delicious taco salad; crumbled up nacho cheese taco shell, leftover bbq pulled pork mixed with spanish rice, can of peas, can of whole kernel corn; fresh broccoli, cauliflower & carrots cut up, topped with a spoonful of ranch dressing; his was a burrito; saw the 1st dandelions of the season in the yard while out dog walking.

* Tues 27th - Admired the dandelions while taking a long sunshine dog walk with Rose during lunch break, watched the last episode of Heartland, saw advertised somewhere there is a season 14 coming out soon.

* Wed 28th - Got the soaker hoses, toilet paper & some of the other items I ordered from Walmart, there were 3 big boxes & 2 little ones, I told Kevin I only ordered a couple things...Hehehe, saving the boxes for the youngest Grands to play in.

* Thurs 29th - Planned to have a pizza picnic out at the lake & take our fishing poles to see if the fish were biting; worked late doing inventory, it was too windy for fishing & both of us was tired with aching feet, ate our pizza at home, went for a longer dog walk out the backyard, ate ice cream & watched several episodes of Survivor.

*Fri 30th - Noticed several asparagus sprouts shooting up out of the garden (clap! clap).

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how about you?  Got anything growing in the garden yet?