My Accomplishments

It's been a very busy, whirlwind couple of weeks!  The boys were home for Easter weekend, and it was so wonderful to spend time with them, laughing over accomplishments, and encouraging them through their current obstacles. (Differential Equations for the Math class.)

My Accomplishments:

1) When we went to New York to look at schools, we stayed with the hotel chain that we usually use when we travel.  We are a member of their Honors Program, so we were able to bank up a few nights towards our next free stay.

2) We packed lunches for all of us for the days we were in the city.  This worked very well on the sunny days, but not so well on the rainy days.  We ended up eating lunch standing under a tree, under our umbrellas outside of the Central Library.

3) Daughter needed some new clothes for spring time.  We hit up Goodwill, and for $5, we were able to pick up 3 shirts and 2 pairs of shorts.

4) Lettuce is coming up in the garden!  Salad with baby greens for dinner one night!

5) Onion sets are in the ground.  300 onions....  It seems like a lot, but somehow, I don't think it's enough.

6) We had another bonfire Friday night, and burned down another stack of twigs and small branches.  Our wood rack holds a half cord of wood.  It is currently filled with the downfall from this winter - completely filled - and we have so much more left to cut down.

7) On Friday night, while the bonfire was going, we made Silver Turtles for dinner and put them into the fire to cook up.  (Silver Turtles - meat and veggies wrapped in tinfoil.  Cook in the fire until done.  Your choice of meat and veggies.  It's a scout thing.)

8) I stopped by Home Depot and bought new rope for the clothes line.  The old line was so old, worn, and stretched out that every time we hung the clothes out, they were dragging on the grass.  I also picked up some new clothes pins as many of the old ones had broken.

9) We got several items out for the Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Day.  Florescent Light Tubes, Old Paint, and some other old chemicals were taken to the dump to be safely disposed of by the county.

10) Husband attempted to get the lawn mower started this weekend.  No dice.  Keep in mind, this lawn mower is second hand, and it's close to 30 years old.  It's a riding lawn mower.  He's been attempting to charge the battery, and then a second battery, and now we're onto the third battery, since Saturday.  Hopefully, a new battery will fix the problem and we aren't looking at a new lawn mower.

11) At daughter's art classes that she taught in the fall, she ran one class on Bird Houses.  We put the bird houses up in the back yard over the weekend.

Another exciting week awaits us!  What wonderful things did you accomplish this past week?