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It’s been another very pleasant week! I know in a month or two it will be so hot I’ll be parked in front of the AC as much as possible, and I see several friends online have mentioned snow, so I am very much enjoying and soaking up these nice spring days. Here are some of my favorite parts of this week:

1. My husband’s help with a couple of projects. I was trying to spray paint something (pictures next week when we get it put together! 🙂 ) I see all these DIY projects online where people have remade something by spray painting. It’s as simple as pointing the can and pressing the button, right? Wrong, at least for me: drips, spatters, puddles, and uneven coverage had me pretty frustrated, and then trying to correct those caused worse problems. My husband came home in the middle of all that and showed me how to sand off some of the problems and then how to use the spray can. I had been holding the button down continuously: he took short, quick back-and-forth strokes. Numerous coats covered up the imperfections of the first one. He pretty much finished it up for me. 🙂 Then I wanted to plant a row of white petunias in front of my pink rose bushes. Toiling away with my little trowel wasn’t getting me very far: the ground was way too hard there. I asked him if he’d break the ground up for me, and he did and helped me plant the flowers as well. I don’t know what he had originally planned for his Saturday, but I’m grateful he willingly gave a few hours to rescue me. 🙂

2. Blooms. I mentioned a week or two ago putting new flowers in this planter, but they weren’t blooming when I took a picture. They’re filling out nicely now.

We discovered a couple of rogue purple petunias in with the white ones.

We even have some rose buds!

(BTW, if anyone knows what those white spots are on the rose leaves or what to do about them, I’d love to hear it.)

3. Discovering Mitford music. I’ve been revisiting Jan Karon‘s Mitford series via audiobook, and I was poking around her site and enjoying the music when I saw at the bottom of the page “Music courtesy Bill Leslie, www.billleslie.com.” I clicked over and discovered A Midnight Clear: Christmas in Mitford, complete with a Mitford Carol and a song for Father Tim and Uncle Billy, and promptly bought the whole album with an iTunes gift card from Christmas!

4. Quick bake cookies. I love those Toll House already-made, just break apart and bake cookies some times. It gives each of us some home-made tasting cookies quickly without having a whole regular batch around the house to tempt us. They’re not quite as good as made-from-scratch, but they’re close.

5. Found treasure. I’ve been looking for curtain fabric for the sewing/craft room, and had a certain color combination in mind. I’ve seen it before, but evidently they’ve stopped making it — I haven’t been able to find anything I liked in various fabric stores or online. I looked through some fabric I’ve kept in our shed, and voila, found something I think will work perfectly.

Happy Friday!