It's too hot outside

I haven't written in a few days, not since Wednesday. On Thursday, I decided to go in to Kingston to see my friend who is recuperating from abdominal surgery. It had been a week since I was last in. She told me she didn't need any more groceries since her neighbours were taking very good care to make sure she had everything. But she did have more laundry for me to do up; and while I was there, I decided to clean her bathtub and sink. I left with all her recycling to deposit in the bins as I was leaving her apartment. I also checked with her superintendent to see if I could install her window AC unit before June 1st, and yes I could. My friend had an electric fan but I knew this weekend was expected to be a scorcher. 

So yesterday morning (Friday), my Sweetie and I took our trailer load of yard trash into the Transfer Station and headed over to the apartment afterwards to install the AC unit and duct tape around all the seams. On the way home, we picked up a yard of garden mix.  Doesn't it look wonderful? I will use some of it for my planters, but most of it will go on top of the veggie garden to help enhance the soil. But not today. It is just too hot to be shoveling dirt.                                   

I got the best work done yesterday morning before we took the trailer into town. I decided to get our own AC unit installed in our bedroom window. I washed a load of whites and lights and hung them on the clothesline. I folded and put away two loads taken off the line. I cleaned out my son's bedroom dresser since he is no longer using it, and moved it downstairs to the front hall alcove.....more storage for miscellaneous items that have no home like lightbulbs and a few winter throws and cushion covers that are not needed right now. I will find things to fit into those four drawers...guaranteed. I managed to fill ONE box for the yard sale with washed and clean fleece throws that we do not need. I have started a garbage bag of clothes to donate to a thrift store. I have items set aside to go into the attic. I gathered up some items I have been picking up here and there for gifts and Advent calendars, and put them in my gift trunk out of the way. I made a second batch of beef soup and made a beef stew in the crock pot for dinner last night.  

This morning at 8 AM,we headed into town again. My Sweetie is trying to fix my favourite wheelbarrow which needed both a new tire and a new axle. Unfortunately, you cannot buy parts for this wheelbarrow. You need to buy a whole new wheelbarrow. Well I don't want to, as it would cost over $100 now to replace it. Why are more and more manufacturers making these "disposable" products? It is very difficult to fix what you have and "make do". So my husband is buying a new tire and cobbling together some rods or pipes to fashion his own axle for the wheel barrow. Keeping my fingers crossed. While he was at the auto parts store figuring this out, I was at Shopper's Drug Mart for their one day sale event. If you spend $50, you get 20Xs the points. I picked up 8 liters of milk (both skim and 2%) and eggs, which I always buy from this store, and then bought sale items. My hair colour, low dose aspirin and Cashmere TP was on sale. Kraft peanut butter, Lantic sugar, and Whiskas kitty treats were terrific prices so I bought more than one of each. After spending $55 before taxes, I saved $36.20 by buying those sale items. And the 20Xs points I earned will give me free merchandise closer to Christmas when I buy at one of their "Spend your points events". On those days, the point totals buy even more than usual. Win-win-win. I also bought a $25 gift card to buy milk and bread the rest of June. I get points now (though not 20Xs) and points later when I buy merchandise with the gift card. When I got back home, I decided it was too hot to work outside, so I just did a "walkabout" in the garden. 

Perennial bachelor button

My lupines are starting to flower

My Bridal Veil shrub

Allium growing up through my snowball hydrangea bush

Have a great weekend and stay cool. I will be serving a Special Meal tomorrow at St. Andrew's church for our street people in Kingston. Our team is made up of residents from Amherst Island and those who "wannabe"