Busy Monday, Monday

Remember that song, "Monday, Monday" from the Mamas & The Papas? No reason for asking, but that tune is running through my mind as I write this post late Monday evening (to be posted on Tuesday, of course).

A very busy Monday it was.........Husband cut the rye field..........you can see the winrows lying on the ground in the evening sun. The rye will be chopped and bagged in a couple days for silage to feed to the cows. Rye is seeded in the fall, so it will start growing right away the following spring.

My day was busy, too.......too busy for my liking; not hard work, just too much running around. The milk check had arrived over the weekend, so I had to coax and plead with it to stre-t-ch over all the bills waiting in a pile on the desk. It did......barely, as is normal.

Then as soon as that two-hour-or-so task was done, it was fill the dishwasher, fill the clothes washer, and run to the bank in our nearby small town, and then drive to Waterloo for groceries and garden plants. (I should have stayed home and mowed the lawn, but the cupboards were getting pretty bare. Actually, I was hoping it would rain as forecasted so I wouldn't feel guilty about gadding about shopping, but it didn't.) On my way to Waterloo, I detoured over to the pioneer cemetery near where I grew up.......to take some photos, what else!!

Rarely do I see people I know while shopping in Waterloo, but today I ran into my sister and niece at Walmart, and an old friend from childhood at Target. Oh, my......we gabbed and laughed in the bread aisle for probably 45 minutes........she was there to buy supplies for her son's graduation party next Sunday. Its her first time for doing that and she's nervous and worried about having enough food prepared. I told her to make it as easy as possible, and don't stress too much over the food........most of the guests will be making the rounds of many graduation parties and probably won't eat much.......that's been my experience. If you run out of food......you run out of food.....no big deal.

All that yacking delayed me from getting home in time to feed calves; but, not to worry, because now that the track season is finally over with, our son gets home earlier from school and can do more chores. Lucky him!

As soon as I got home, the sky was turning absolutely beautiful and needed its picture taken, so I had to run around outdoors and do that before putting the groceries away and fixing supper for Husband and Son, who were hungry as bears. There's just no rest for the wicked!!

Above are grape vine leaves still opening up and looking pink. I really like the photo below........it is WEEDS silouetted against the lovely sunset sky. WEEDS! Finally, they are good for something!!

(Oh, shoot, I should have cropped out that weird little dark mouse-shaped cloud on the right. Sorry!)

Have a tremendous Tuesday! (Now I'm wondering who sang "Tuesday Afternoon"........that was a good song, too.)