T Stands for Tuesday & More Spring "Doings"

  Hi everyone, and Happy T Stands for Tuesday with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth. We share a drink related post and link up for T visits with friends. You are most welcome to join us.

   Today (Monday) we are back to spring like temperatures-we made it back up to the 70's F today-after having much colder weather with rain and storms late last week and weekend.
   The eagles have been sitting up in that tree again-one day it's the male and the next day the female. I think this is the month they are raising their newborns. I just love hearing the male sing.

   I was burning more leaves again today-One more day and I will have the big pile finished-and then I have a bit more raking to do which which will give me another day or two of burning. I have to make sure there is no wind when I burn.
  The grass keeps growing and we don't have a lawn mower. Larry was thinking of buying one but I don't think that is a good idea with his health concerns-and all the yard is on a slope, This week I am going to search for a service to cut it for us-hopefully that will work out.

   This past week Larry has been up at the garage sanding and welding vintage iron tables and chairs for our deck area. We have had these pieces over the years and just never had the time to refurbish them. I am really excited about it. Originally the tables had glass for tops, but he found this cool piece of a patterned iron sheet I guess you would call it that he has cut to size and welded it in the tables.

  My job is to wipe the pieces down and paint-I decided it would be better to prime them first-so am hoping I can get that at Wal mart tomorrow (Tuesday) when I go food shopping.

  The larger table and four chairs we have had with us ever since we have been together-going on  40 years now. I always thought these were  garage sale finds-Larry told me today that when he was a young boy he traveled on vacation with his parents to Mexico. His Mom fell in love with this set and had to have it. They needed to strap the pieces to the top of the car-I can only imagine-he says he still remembers his father complaining as they had to constantly stop and tightened everything  back up.  So this is a special set that am just now knowing about.

  Those two smaller tables are quite heavy and he had found those at a garage sale. Behind to the right are two vintage farm tractor seats that have been converted to chairs. These will make cool seats for the deck too.

and we have two of these chairs and two plain ones that go with the table. He said these were beautiful and all the rage back when his Mom bought them
    I am going to see if I can find small cans of rust-oleum of the green and red. and will search for outdoor fabric to make cushions-I will check out Fabric.com as they seem to carry any sort of fabric needed. (going to their site to share the link, they say do to the virus orders will be slow to get out and they are limited on fabrics-so will see how that search goes)

Here is another look at the tractor chair seats. We have had these a long time too, The ones that still have the brand names on them are quite expensive now These pop up at farm sales still.

So this is my project if the weather cooperates with no wind this week. We are to be in the 80's F both Tuesday and Wednesday before we crash back down to the 50's F

  While burning leaves-I do a small amount at a time so I don't have a huge fire, gave me the chance to sit a bit. I am loving all the wild violets and dandelions in my yard here at the lake-I love those spring flowers-and they both make into wonderful healing balms. I have also made in the past violet sugar, and sugared violet flowers-fun.

now that I look at these photo above and  below-this is something else and not violets I do have the wild violets too

The wisteria has more blooms now and behind this area the redbud trees are blooming. This home has two lilac bushes which I am thrilled over. Looking forward to their blooms

  I also discovered, up on top by the driveway edge, I have 4 mullein herb plants coming up-when full grown they look like a horrible weed-but the leaves dried for tea have been used for years for asthma and respiratory so I want to keep at least one plant.  here is a photo I found online.  These plants can get quite tall-I have three growing close together-I think I will dig up two and save one plant. The forth one is in a different area.
   I have not found plantain here yet-that is an excellent healing herb (weed) as well.



   Over the weekends I have been making us comfort foods-Larry more than me is a people person so this has been difficult for him not going off our property here at the lake, or having friends over.  When we were moving over one of our deep freezers last year,  I had found a 6 pound pork loin roast that I had bought to roast for deer camp  Our Wisconsin friends always bring down so much food we didn't need it. So thought perfect meal to get use up this meat.
   So I roasted that in the oven as it was too cold and windy to make it outdoors over a fire.
   I don't usually cook something this large any more-but was really happy with the results. Half way through I cut it in half for faster cooking.  I now have 6 more meals for us in the freezer from this roast.
    I dug out my large mortar and pestle and added sage, rosemary, thyme, garlic cloves, black pepper, and olive oil  for the top rub-yum.

  I tried another new tea from my purchase this past week. I am really enjoying all of these tea blends so far   Love their combinations of ingredients

Along with more of this coffee during the week, which I am really enjoying this brand

  I will be later than usual visiting, as I need to leave really early to go food shopping   The Wal Mart Senior hours are on Tuesdays from 6 am to 7 am-yikes I will need to get up around 5 am to leave the house around 5:30 am.  When I went shopping two weeks ago this store was not set up for covid-now it is according to their website. So will be a new adventure I guess.

Stay safe everyone, Happy T wishes. The world will conquer this virus Thanks go to all the hard working people from the President and his team, our military that is now organizing the supply chain, and all the numerous medical staff, and the list goes on-so thankful for everyone working against this pandemic

   Oh  I also want to share that Larry caught several of these fish while I was burning leaves-he threw them all back in the water.