How to End a Year
I’ll have a reflective/forward-looking post up later tonight or tomorrow, but today I’d just like to tell you about our morning and how we are ending our year.
My father was visiting yesterday and mentioned he had a pine tree in a pot that he needed to get rid of. He also had something at his house that needed fixing and wanted Mike to come do it before She Who Shall Not Be Named returns from her trip to Texas. So Mike decided to just follow him home yesterday and do it then since he didn’t know if he’d have time any other day.
He fixed what needed to be fixed, decided to take the tree, and got some paperwork dealing with some land my mother owned a share of. I’ll write more about that on a later date because maybe you all can give me some good advice about how to deal with making sure the land and the mineral rights become mine and LG’s and that swsnbn doesn’t get her grubby little hands on it just to spite me if something happens to my father first.
Anyway, the tree that Mike took was a tree that had grown from seed from the pine tree that had lived in front of the house I grew up in for most, if not all, of my life. If I can find a picture of the tree in front of the house, I will post it later. This morning, Mike planted it in our back yard. Hopefully it will not go into too much shock from being moved from pot to ground, but it’s been living outside and it’s pretty well established, so I’m hopeful it will be okay. I love that I have a little piece of my old house here with me. That’s a good thing.
The other thing we are doing this morning is cleaning/reorganizing LG’s room for the new year.
LG, by the way, is filthy. She loves to play in the dirt. She sure didn’t get that from ME (as my father attested to yesterday). But I guess it’s not a bad thing. Even if her clothes are FILTHY. *sigh*
As I said, I’ll write the obligatory out with the old/in with the new post later, but until then, I hope all of you are having a great weekend, that you have a safe New Year’s Eve and that 2007 brings you more joy than sadness.
