Life: It Goes On - May 3

Happy Sunday from sunny Omaha! I am happy to report that I'm finally able to get my plants into pots. As you know, I'm a happy girl when I can get my hands into the dirt and finally start seeing my vision for this year come to life. 

I contine to struggle with getting Blogger to allow me to add pictures. Every day I have to block cookies and then allow them again, then sign out and back in again to my Google account. Today I did all of that, got to my pics, selected the one I wanted and then it told me it wasn't able to copy photos to my blog. So frustrating. I suppose it means that it's time to move off of this platform but it seems like a lot of work for a blog that's essentially just for me and when so many others that I've always followed have moved away from blogs. Still, after almost seventeen years, I'm loathe to pull the plug. 

Last Week I: 

Listened To: I finished Allen Levi's Theo of Golden (I think you'll be surprised by my thoughts on this one) and started Niall Williams' This Is Happiness (as recommended by Ann Patchett). 

Watched: A little of this, a little of that. An episode of The Gentlemen (at this point, it's so convoluted, I'm not sure what's going on) and an episode of Wednesday (still not enjoying it as much as season one, but we'll finish the season). Also, the Netflix adaptation of Emily Henry's The People We Meet on Vacation. Cute, predictable, just the thing to watch while the Big Guy was gone for an evening.

Read: I finished The Berry Pickers and am about a third of the way through Rebecca Godfrey's and Leslie Jamison's Peggy, which is the story of Peggy Guggenheim, from her early life to her time in Venice. 

Made: Pasta, salads, pizza - nothing that required too much effort. I save a lot of recipes for someone who's not in the mood to actually cook any of them! 

Enjoyed: Buying a mattress. Don't get me wrong, the process of actually trying out twenty mattresses and buying one was NOT enjoyable. But getting to stop thinking about mattresses is very enjoyable. We've been, as you know, talking about them for weeks and weeks! 

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This Week I’m:  

Planning: On finishing up the planting today then enjoying lots of meals on the patio this week. Also, paperwork - ick. 

Thinking About: BG has spent a fair amount of the weekend doing all things Berkshire Hathaway. Once again, he has come home with lots of things sold by companies that BH owns. Every year he buys something that makes me wonder how an intelligent man gets sucked into buying it. This year it was a scoop that I thought was a kitty litter scoop, but which is, in fact, mean for food. It's huge - where am I going to house it? Also, a device that's sole purpose is to cook an egg in the microwave. If everyone else gets as caught up in a buying frenzy as BG does, they must make a fortune at that event. 

Feeling: Lighter, as I always do this time of year, when color and blossoms begin appearing in my yard. 

Looking forward to: Getting our new mattress on Mother's Day. 

Question of the week: BG is talking about getting a Blackstone grill. Do you have one? If so do you like it and how often do you use it?