A day for the record books..indeed!
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My Cowboy came home this afternoon and couldn't decide
if he had made a wrong turn somehow and was lost?
...or if he had acquired himself a new wife,
and just couldn't remember when!!
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It all began at about 7 am..... .
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I was quietly minding my own business,
as I certainly have no one else's business I could get into ....
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...just staring out into the bleak winter scape...
when I had this urge!
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No! not to pee...
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The urge to do something productive today!
I've not had any urges to speak of, for quite some time.
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It came like a bolt of lightning striking me!
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I need to get busy on "The Project"
that our soon to be daughter-in-law requested...
several months back!
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Seeing as how it has taken Chad far too long to find "The Right" gal,
I don't want to jeopardize that relationship by not fulfilling my promise to her.
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(Nor do I want her to think badly of me....so soon!)
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I have about 50 days to complete and get mailed off,
for her to get it framed...
....before he returns from his deployment in the mid-east!
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So........
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I gulped down my 2nd cup of coffee, which I NEVER do;
I threw on my duds and walked into my drawing room.
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Danged!
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@!*>~*
(actually...I said Shit!)
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What a mess!
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I can't work in here when everything is in such disarray!
Heck, I can't even see my table,
let alone sit in my chair!
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I gathered my wits....
I tidied it up, organized my different elements,
and stashed some unnecessary items.....
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| ...almost clean enough to see |
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. Next thing I knew~
I was cleaning one of the spare bedrooms
just to stash~ my stash!
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Once having completed that mess,
I found that I desperately needed to burn some papers.
(why? I asked myself should I trudge out to the burn barrel,
when I can burn in the fireplace?)
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But first....
I decided it was essential that I clean one of the fireplaces.
(Only one needed to be cleaned, as I only burn candles in the other!)
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I don't know when I cleaned this last...
certainly not this past year and half...
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Goodness! Gracious! Great Balls of Fire!
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T'was full of ashes, creosoted glass doors....
...and let me affirm...
Yes... still hot with embers!
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Ok....no problemo....we have a steel wheelbarrow!
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Grrrr....(and a few more @!*>~* words were blurted out)
.I had forged outdoors, mind you into a season I detest,
only to discover, it had a flat tire!
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Ok...It's Ok...I hushed myself...
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Not to worry...
just use one of the boxes I took from the spare room.
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Which I did.
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I worked quickly...
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"Hurry! Hurry!" I kept telling my stupid self.
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(Even though I had lined it with foil, it was quite hot...
as I dragged it out the back door...
Hoping it would not catch on fire before I got there
and then hoping it would rain....
or
Cowboy would get home to move it before it caught the house on fire!)
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All is gooooooood.
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I did not need to call 911.
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Except...that in my rush to not set me or the house on fire...
I made a HUGE mess in front of the fireplace,
I'm covered in soot....
and so is everything in the room!
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"Better change my duds....."
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I say to self...
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" and you may as well do the laundry while you are at it!"
"You just put on your last pair of clean jeans!"
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(7! yes SEVEN loads...and I have a heavy duty oversize machine..
...and there is only 2 of us! What does that tell ya??)
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Ok...Get back to what you were doing...
You can multi-task like a champion,
so get at it!
Daylight is a burnin'
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. After having swept and mopped up the soot, the ash residue...
I stood there, stretching the muscles that have been languishing far too long,
I could not help but notice that the picture hanging on the brick wall,
sure could use a good cleaning!
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| Now the glass shines! |
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And that one!
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That one too!
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| Look! No more dust! |
And another!
And another...
. Upon realizing that I was making a bigger mess around the house as I went,
I had to have a chat with myself,
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"Why don't you just plum clean the whole danged house?"
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And in the midst of dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing,
cobweb hunting, and laundering~
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of course there was the dust bunny round up too!....
(Oh...did I mention how surprised my hubby was when he sat down to watch TV tonight?
He hollers "Hey Honey....my eyes got better today!!"
......I had another revelation!
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Why not bake a cake?
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I haven't made a cake in a bazillion years!
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| Is that obvious by the date? |
. (it just so happens to be the only box I had in the cupboard
and I was NOT into making one from scratch today...
I had too many other things to do!)
. So, Chocolate it shall be!
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(which doesn't hurt my feelings, as I believe nothing is more worthy for dessert than anything chocolate!)
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| I do not care for frosting, so I sprinkled with powdered sugar |
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I say to myself ...
as the cake enters the oven...
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"Yo Barb! since you are already making a mess in the kitchen,
why don't you make a royal mess?" "A royal dinner!"
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"Lasagna!"
"And make two pans while you are at it....
so you can fool the hubby some other day...
he will think you worked this hard again!"
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I haven't made Lasagna in~~ who knows how long!
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Note the date!
BUT...
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Ta Dah!
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One's in the freezer for fooling the hubby at a later date...
and this one is for tonight!
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Don't always be too fooled by dates on products either!
I'm not one to throw things out,
and both Lasagna and Chocolate cake were perfecto!
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We actually sat at the dining room table tonight,
with a real dinner before us!
It was nice!
If a stranger whould have appeared,
they might have thought this was a special occasion...
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and for me..
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it
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was!
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Today.... I was ME!
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(These past two+ years, dinner consists mainly of sitting at the bar,
eating a quick, unplanned, concoction thrown together...
ones I could not replicate if my life depended on it!)
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....and then....
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I happened to glance up and what did I see?
" @!*>~* "
I had forgotten the ceiling fan!
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Oh well.....I wasn't going to let a dusty ol' ceiling fan ruin my day!
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There is always next time.
And hopefully, next time comes along sooner than it did this time!
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Now....
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After a very, very productive day,
not at all what I had set out to accomplish 11 hours prior....
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It's time to plunk this W.O.W.'s butt down....
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See? I even have sox on tonight!
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It is time to relax
(maybe that should say recuperate..)
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and say "Hoorah!" "I did it!"
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But....instead....
I'm going to say
SYRAH!!
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and another....
SYRAH!
Cowboy Wife
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