Hinds County News April 2017
Good Morning! Hinds County! I am writing this March 20, the first day of
Spring, today’s high, here in south central Nebraska, is fore casted to be in
the middle 60s, yesterday’s high was 85, weather man said this morning, snow is
a possibility toward the end of the week.
We have had some gorgeous days of
late....so I have been scrambling to get yard cleaned up and ready for
spring. I have never been ready for
spring…. Ever! Now, I understand why it
was difficult to be ready for spring’s arrival while in Mississippi…big yard,
so many bushes needing attention, big pecan trees, dropping huge limbs all
winter long. Those limbs piled in and around
the burn pit had to be dealt with and that is not easy as you might think…You cannot
just strike a match and set the pile a blaze…oh no! It was
usually very dry, so had to wait until after a nice rain...and a day the wind
was not blowing.
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| fallen limbs from my pecan trees |
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| fire pit behind spider |
But here…in this little tiny yard…...I
still cannot be ready for spring when it blows in! Why!?
I know
the answer, I have come to believe I have a mental disorder “Putter Brain” …. I
will stop raking, cutting back roses, or cleaning out planting beds to run to
the lumber yard to buy lumber to build a joggling board!
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This is a joggling board
(not mine) |
Or make a hardware run to get a can of bright
pink paint to repaint my flamingos, or a junk run in search of yard art…. The junk
run turned in to a tree and flamingo pillow buying excursion.
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| New Pillows |
I do recognize
I am an out of control putterer…. If there is a cure…I do I really want to be
cured? Me thinks not. This morning as I
peek out my front door…I see a fabulous flamingo pillow in the swing, bright red
pillows in the Adirondack chairs, plastic flamingos staked around in the yard. One hardly notices the shrubs that need
tidying up, or the great piles of leaves that have blown in the corners of the
fence.
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| new tree |
The tree I planted in the front
yard, by the Adirondacks and swing, is a flowering crab, the picture on the tag
shows the blooms being almost the exact same color as the flamingos! Won’t that
be fabulous?!!!!
I planted a maple in the back yard….in
my direct line of sight, as I peer out the west window of the kitchen…. Won’t
that be fabulous when the leaves turn this fall!!!
I built the Adirondack chairs from
a kit, I like them a lot, they really dress up the front yard. I painted them bright white…I am not a neat
painter…lots of drips and runs…but I am not disheartened …because I have nearly
convinced myself drips and runs give the chairs character and age, like this
was not their first coat of paint. And
with the addition of the bright red pillows, one hardly notices the chairs runs
and drips of paint.
Essentially the paint job looks as if
it was done by your teenager, trying to make a fast buck, to buy a tank of gas.
Love to all
Come see me if you get this way!
You can sit and joggle on my
joggling board with me….
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| Since writing this I have begun to make my joggling board |
I had never heard of a joggling board, until recently
when my book club read Eudora Welty’s
The
Delta Wedding…She mention a joggling board….so you know I must have one! I
have not gotten it built yet…But lumber has been delivered!
The Bank reopened the lobby, so Bancorp South
treated the community to a party... to celebrate.
The speaker is Mayor Perkins...Thanking them on our behalf.
This is the pumpkin patch...
We each got to choose a pumpkin.
Some of the pumpkins had prizes under them...
Fever didn't pick a prize pumpkin.....
But I did! My pumpkin won a flat screen HD
TV!!!!!!!
On the left is
Pat Sigrest the bank manager
That's me in the middle
The fella? I have already forgotten his name....
A grand Time was had by all!!!!!
