I Like Thursday #182

I'm back in time for an I Like Thursday post. Honestly, I don't know where the time flies except life keeps happening and I feel like I'm always running here & there. Can you relate with busy times in your life?

What's kept me busy is going through Mom's house (of nearly 56 years). So many decisions made -- what to keep, what to donate, what to let go, what to put in storage, what to keep for other family members. My goodness, so many decisions! Then to have everything set up for transporting all the things to a storage unit. Have you ever heard of and/or used Two Men & a Truck? Even though they were a little pricey (and I was warned of that), they were very efficient, competent, timely, friendly, and -- bottom line -- got the job done.

Mom & I attended the closing last Friday, the 13th. Yahoo! All the utilities have been closed out in her name, her homeowner insurance cancelled, and yesterday we had our appointment to get her a new state ID card with her official new address. She also was re-registered to vote at her new address.

Guess what? I LIKE ALL THAT!

Here are a few more things that I've liked the past couple of weeks.

Goose Party on our Backyard Pond

Belleville Main Public Library
The Library I Used While Growing Up
Such a Beautiful Building

Chatty Grand-Niece on Valentine's Day

Pre-Lent Polish Doughnuts - So Yummy!

Polly Has Decided Gracie's Bed is Just Right for Her!
Hahahaha!

Conversation starter of the week
what was your favorite subject in school... elementary, high school, or college... or did your favorite subject change over time? what was the teacher like? do you still have an interest in that subject?

I loved any and all math classes. To me, geometry and algebra were like puzzle games just waiting for me to figure out. In high school, I took English I & II. Loved both of those classes. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Milton's Paradise Lost were terrific reads.

Don't forget to visit Not Afraid of Color. LeeAnna has all the I Like Thursday bloggers partying there!

I Like Thursday #181

Welcome once again to my I Like posts on this Thursday. I like that we are going above freezing today after 12 days of not! So many of those previous days we struggled to get to 20 degrees C that this is going to be wonderful!! And that is just the first of my I Like post. I love that there is a group of us that share likeable things on Not Afraid of Color's blog. Check it out and see what's happening in other worlds!

As I mentioned earlier, we've been incredibly cold for quite some time. Check out this icicle I found in my neighborhood on one of my morning walks with Gracie.

Longest Icicle EVER!

Last weekend was my sleep-in-your-own-bed monthly retreat. Oh, how I like them!! Since we don't meet in November or December, it's been a long time since I sewed with my quilty friends. I really needed it this month!

Here's a picture of the quilt my friend shared at the retreat. Isn't it a beauty? I really liked how she added the words on the top & bottom too!

Please Pardon the Sunny Rays!

Another friend shared that the bike trail had been plowed. I had not been up that way, assuming that it was like other snow storms and not touched. Gracie & I braved it one morning to check it out. While the trail from the subdivision to the trail was not plowed, once we got to the main trail we discovered that a good portion was! We couldn't go on some of our familiar paths, but we were able to go on the main trail. WE liked that!

Thank You, MCT, for Clearing
Some of the Trail!

You know I love my birds. Here's a close-up (through the screen, sorry!) of the feeder outside my kitchen patio doors.

Mr. Cardinal and Mr. Goldfinch
Sharing Sunflower Seeds and Dried Meal Worms

Our prompt this week is did we share Valentine's Day cards at school? Yes, we did. I think we did that maybe through about third grade. We made our "mailboxes" for our friends to "mail" cards to us too. Sometimes there'd be a card that wouldn't go through our decorated shoebox because there was a sucker or Tootsie Roll attached. Those were my favorites!

I hope you have many things that pleased you last week and my wish for you is many this upcoming week! Don't forget to see what others shared HERE.