Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
miscellany

conclusions

Not that this is going to happen anytime soon, but I think I need to work four days a week. I took today off because I had to pick up some plants at the annual Cambria County Conservation District plant sale. While I was out, I also recycled a bunch of electronics at the Cambria County Solid Waste Authority, went to the bank, dropped off my Mom’s Easter plant (since I did not see her on Easter) and picked up a couple of prescriptions at Richland Vet.

After lunch, I took an hour-long nap, which was welcome. I did some cleaning and knitting and have pizza dough rising in the kitchen for supper. I also potted a belated Christmas present that arrived today (a lime tree which couldn’t be shipped until now because it’s been too cold). I’ve also been doing laundry in between all of my other activities.

All this and it’s not even 6pm yet! Who knows what the evening will bring?!?

gardening & landscaping

it’s that time

The weather was finally decent enough to get outside for a couple of minutes the other evening. I removed the straw from the strawberry beds and the netting from the pond. I thought all of my fish died last fall, but there was one swimming around in there. I guess that is a good sign–I thought there was a problem with the pond water.

There is so much to do outside, but it looks like there are going to be some nice days this month, so I guess I’ll get things done then.

movies, shopping

nightcrawler

This movie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was acted and shot well, but I just couldn’t get past the lack of redemption, hence my rating. Brian, on the other hand, really liked it. He even stayed awake till the end.

In other weekend news, we made a much needed trip to Costco. Besides the usual stuff, we bought a number of large pots to be used in some container gardening we’re going to be doing this summer. Score!

My rating: 3/5 (for the movie, not the weekend)

small business ownership

listed

Our investment property has been listed! For obvious reasons, I hope it sells quickly. I was comparing it to similarly priced properties and I have to say, it looks better than any of the ones I was looking at. We never had a problem renting it out–people always loved the place. So, I guess we have that working in our favor.

One negative is that we have to have the sewer line done prior to the sale, but it’s going to need to be done eventually, anyway, so I guess I shouldn’t worry about that.

health & wellness, movies, out and about

gone girl (the movie) and other things

Brian and I watched this movie last night. I was really looking forward to seeing it, but I found it to be a tad disappointing. I think it was because I loved the unexpected twists of the book and since I already knew what was going to happen, it wasn’t as engaging. Also, the “diary” portions of the story were better in the book than in the movie (but I guess this is a no-brainer since they are written). Overall, I think they did a good job with it, but the book was definitely better.

My rating: 3.5/5

In other news, the three of us went out for dinner at Off the Rak with Carol and Bob (also last night). As always, it was great to see them. Brian and I also wrapped things up at our investment property today so that will be on the market as soon as our realtors can get it listed. The only negative of the weekend is that Jake picked up a stomach virus and was sick all last night. He stayed at a friend’s house Friday night and someone there was sick and as luck would have it… You might want to buy stock in Clorox and Lysol as I have been going through those products at an alarming rate today. Fingers crossed that Brian and I can dodge the bug.