March 12th 2020

NATIONAL PLANT A FLOWER DAY. Spring is just around the corner, and March 12th is the day to participate in National Plant a Flower Day. Each year this day is dedicated to the planting of flowers and looking forward to the spring season.

8am and it was time

To get moving.

Breakfast date with friends.

Left in time to head to Valleyview

To do coffee and refill the gift shop.

Off to make a pickup,

Travel to London,

Pit stop at Value Village,

Do the TD banking,

Quick stop at Dollar Tree,

Off to the next pick up.

Travel back to St Thomas.

I grabbed the groceries,

Stopped at beer store

To pick up St Patrick's day Guess,

Filled my gas tank

And back to the house

To grab John's car 

And fill it too!

I emptied the cars garbage.

Now came the worst part.

My house was a disaster.

A 2 day crop,

Filled my house with the totes

That store everything

For the crops.

Leftover prizes are all over

The dining room.

The entire house was torn up.

I started by organizing

Like with like.

Prizes in dining room,

Dishes and food in kitchen,

Stock in front porch,

Crafts in craft room.

Then I straightened the easy rooms.

Living room back to normal.

Laundry folded.

Back bathroom cleaned and sanitized.

Cat litter and food

Stored properly in bins.

Back room cleaned and organized.

I spent the entire night

Scrubbing and organizing dishes.

One dishwasher load

And the rest were oversized

And needed hand washing.

By 10pm the kitchen 

was finally back to normal,

Garbage and recycling done

And half of the totes

Repacked and ready for storage.

At 10:30

I put away the dishes drying 

On the counter and

I headed for the upstairs messes,

Making 2 trips up

So I could clear the stairs.

Put away the upstairs cat litter,

And scrubbed the toilet.

Made the bed,

With very little help from the 8 month old

Who insisted on playing

In the sheets and blankets.

Straightened the guitar room,

Put away my laundry,

Organized John's 5 baskets into 3,

Started a load of towels

And gathered another load of towels 

to be washed - they will go to mom's dryer

When I go to set up coffee tomorrow.

My whole day has been 

chore after chore but at least

I am starting to see improvement.

I have set a self-imposed

Deadline of bedtime tomorrow

To have my house back to normal

...And a real supper for the first time

This week that wasn't leftovers.

Good night from John Street