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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Today I woke to the alarm clock.  UGH!  That's terrible on a Saturday!  But, I had to, because we had things to do today, and had to leave the house by 10, so I had set the alarm for 9:30.  It was rough, but I did it.  All by myself, since the fellas were already out in the garage and yard and had forgotten all about me.

We didn't get on the road until twenty after ten - the guys, of course had "NO IDEA" what time it was and it took them that long to get things cleaned up and the garage closed down, and themselves cleaned up.  We went to Georgetown for Ron to get his license plates.  Corgan, Justin and I sat in the truck while Ron went in, because the license bureau in Georgetown is pretty small, then we went on up to Ruth's to help her get her yard cleared up of the tree branches that had come down in the ice storm in January.  It didn't take all of us very long, only a couple of hours.  Ruth had her grandkids outside with her, too, and Hailey was helping, too, as much as a five-year-old can help.  Warren, being two weeks shy of a year old, just toddled around everywhere.  He was a joy to watch!  I worked a little, then took a break, worked some more, took a break. Ron had warned me that I had best not do too much, and I wasn't planning on it anyway, but I didn't want to do nothing, so I helped, just not too much.  Ron had given the boys each a small saw (they are nine and ten...) and they were in seventh heaven!  They kept begging him to give them the axe, but he didn't fall for that one.
We brought some of the small kindling-type branches and some of the bigger branches that we could use in the firepit home with us, but the branches that had big web-type branches coming off of them, we put into the big pile at the ditch that Ruth already had started.  There was quite a decent pile there when we were done, probably as tall as me!  Winchester is supposedly going to have a cleanup day for all those types of branches and then they will be gone.  But her yard looks good now, not tree branch hell.

We got back home, got some lunch, and the guys went back outside.  I did the dishes (on a Saturday!), figured out what to make for supper for everyone, and played on pute for a bit.
I made the 7-can soup for our supper, but it ended up being more like a 10-can soup, just because I wanted there to be enough for us all.  As well as the "basic" recipe that I have, I added another can of veggies and a jar of mushrooms, as well as leftover beans from the fridge.  I also made a triple recipe of cornbread in a big cake pan,   It was a quite tasty supper, if I do say so myself!

After supper, we went outside and sat around a fire.  The boys had been pestering us about having a fire tonight ever since we told them we were bringing some of that wood home (and they had to unload the truck!) and I had told them that THEY had to ask everyone else.  I figured that they would forget, and that would be that.  To my surprise, as soon as Josh, Chelle, and Jean walked in, that was just about the first thing they asked them!  I was further surprised that everyone said that sounded great!!  So, out we went and enjoyed a fire - we used the wood we already had, not the wood we just brought home, but it was still a beautiful evening for it.
At eight, we came in, and they all hit the road for home, and Ron and I turned on the TV for our evening.

I made me a bag of popcorn, which I had with a glass of milk, as usual, after I put my food into MFP and I had plenty of extra calories for the day.  After my snack was added, I was still around 200 short for the day!

Early to bed tonight.  That happens when I get up early.  Hopefully I can sleep a good sleep, not disjointed sleep as happens sometimes when my brain is shortcircuiting - or what feels like shortcircuiting to me.  We shall see.