Daily Archives: March 15, 2012

Just Me - AmeliaJake, The Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse

Now in from being out in Kendallville, Indiana

Why am I typing Kendallville, Indiana over and over again? Well, I don’t really know. It could be that when I have searched for past posts lately,  I have not been able to find them. I think the first Kendallville was because it was written about being outside in March.

But, to get on with it, I put on my newly-found Lands End hat and went to a jeweler’s to retrieve a necklace, and when I pulled into the driveway, I knew I could saw some shrub leaders after all. So I did. Only first I had to come into the house to change into my SPAM hat because the LE hat was one of my better ones – not one of those I’d worn over and over again for mowing. I took my yellow-topped head into the shrubs and took out three thick ones.

I’m thinking of moving up to axes.

Just Me - AmeliaJake, This and That at The Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse

Inside in Kendallville, Indiana

Ah, yes, I wrote two days okay about spending time outside in the warm air doing yard stuff.* Yesterday, too, I went out and thinned out some big overgrown shrubs, aiming at preserving privacy while allowing sunlight into the middle to stimulate more lower growth.

I sawed . . . and left some more sawing for today.

And wouldn’t you know it, but when I got up to take Alison to work, it was raining! Raining!!! I said that I guess I wouldn’t be working out today; I sighed. Then when I got home and still had a lot of snot in my nose and sinuses, I decided to take some medicine and lie back down – since I couldn’t do my planned pruning.

When I pulled the blanket away from face, THE SUN WAS OUT and things had dried off. The sky was also blue. I would say Mother Nature decided I was not sincere in my “oh, shucks, it’s raining and I can’t work out” attitude and decided to let me have it up side the head. (I must sign up for acting classes.)

I tried to suck it up and get out there, but I couldn’t do it. So I went into the kitchen  – and while having a theological discussion with Cameron  –  put some beef in the slow cooker so I could shred it, and then let it sit in barbeque sauce overnight and simmer it tomorrow. It didn’t take long. I could still go out. I didn’t.

I am inside, looking out at the sun and listening to the birds.  Maybe I can manage to saw out one big, fat and tall leader – just one – sometime today. I just looked at the weather – THUNDERSTORMS ARE PREDICTED for the PM!!! Oh, but they are not to start until six.

What is it Chef Ramsay always tells me? Oh, yeah. I remember.

* By the way, I couldn’t find any of my Lands End hats and had to wear my bright yellow SPAM hat that LZP had sent. It was cool; the high school girls who passed by on the way home from school thought it was so neat that they giggled . . . once they were three feet past me. And, rats, I can’t find my pictures of my Spam hat. Oh, I also have a Spam shirt, also courtesy of LZP. Well, I just have to take new pictures.