Before The Tree Cutting

I will be taking another set of pictures when these scruffy pines are gone.  The team is here working.  I can hear the chain saw.  The Tree Man is getting the big chipper into position.  My husband and the dog are outside watching.  G now wants the shoe spikes so he can climb trees like the professionals.  I wonder if I should get my tourniquet first aid kit ready?

These pictures are the only proof I have that the sun has shone this month.  Today is cool, overcast and damp.  My perennials are growing like weeds.  G's poppy (I purchase plants I know he will enjoy) is blooming--a very large, very red flower  on a plant that should be PINK.  It was pink when I bought it last year. Pink with a black center.  The light here in the house just shifted.  And I see a shade on the wall.  SUN.  Perhaps we can get the grass cut today after all.

I finally had time (and G) to get the king mattress rotated so I could add the wool mattress pad.  So now the bed is topped with this luxuriously fluffy wool layer, smooth real linen sheets and the new down blanket.  Heavenly.  I haven't asked G what he thought but I hope it was pleasant.

G worked all afternoon cleaning up his office.  I scrubbed the hall bathroom (his) clean and only need to mop the floors today.  I did about five loads of laundry and just about have the bathtub in my bathroom empty.  I use it as a big laundry basket.

I had soup with corn (a no- no vegetable) yesterday and ended the day with a sugar free jello.  This morning I was back down having "lost" the pound I "gained" yesterday.  I am just going to keep going and stop weighing myself (or weighing myself and ignoring the result, unless it's a good thing).  I started the morning with a MIM topped with a sausage patty and a slice of American cheese. (an Atkins sausage biscuit with cheese) Now I have to count the carbs.  I find I am happier with the addition of the fiber in the Flax meal. I added more cinnamon and a pinch of salt to make it taste sort of better.  I also microwaved the batter in a square container and it seemed like a "sandwich" after I cut the MIM in half.  Sometimes appearances can make you think you are having something you like, when you aren't.

G is shredding the papers he removed from his office.  Riley is monitoring the tree guys from inside the house.  I am going upstairs to do my Pilates.  See you later.