T Stands for a Second Look, as Well as Take Out and a Bird

 Hi everyone.  Happy May and happy new week.

It is Monday, and although unusual for me,  I am posting early for T day, which is where we share our drink related post and chatter over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog .

This Monday is also the second of the month, and it is time to share something from an earlier post over at  Second on the Second. Both of these challenges at hosted by the lovely Elizabeth and her side kick Bleubeard. 

I am making these 2 challenges into one post because tomorrow, Tuesday, we start a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday. By combining Second on the Second and T Day, I don't have to write 3 posts. Smile.

For my second look this month, I thought I would celebrate Cinco De Mayo  a few days early. I'm also celebrating spring because I really enjoy doing all kinds of spring gardening and other chores, well except maybe day to day cleaning. Here's my back link for this drink second look. (May 31, 2018).

This is me with a big margarita at the end of a busy day. I'm in my hammock on my screen porch. Opening the screen porch has yet to happen, but it's high on the list, behind finishing the spare bedroom project, getting the bees installed, working in the gardens, art, cleaning, reading...hee-hee. Anyone who says retirement is when life slows down is obviously not retired, especially when there are so many fun things to do around the house  and garden. Smile. (But just to clarify, I don't work, work, work all day. I'm up early, usually get my chores done by lunch or before, and then after that,  there must time for fun, like art and reading, and I am very good a taking an afternoon nap too.)

This leads me into last week. I kept busy with yard work. I'm also getting ready for my bees that arrive very soon (I'll share more of my bee adventures in a later post), and we started putting down the floor in the spare bedroom/ craft space. Hurrah for that. The end is in sight to this project. I'm figuring the spare bedroom/craft space project will be finished in a couple more weeks, and I will be more than ready to move my supplies back into place, although I'm still not sure how exactly I will arrange them.

For T this week, besides my look back drink,  I am sharing some Friday evening take out. I wanted to get a few yard-garden supplies at one of the big box hardware-garden stores, so I took the truck and met my husband there when he was on his way home from work. Friday evening is a great time to shop as no one is there, compared to the weekends especially. Since one thing I wanted was some bags of pea stone for a path I made down to the bee hives, we needed the truck to transport them. I also needed my husband to lift them all because those bags of stones are just a tad bit heavy for me to lift up into the truck (although I can lift them out of the truck where I have some help from gravity.)  My husband also had a small list of needed supplies, so it worked out that his shopping could be combined with mine.

When we finished, my husband said he'd stop and get some Mexican food take out for dinner, so I drove the truck home, and he came home a few minutes later with dinner.

I set the table and made us each a margarita to celebrate that it was Friday night.  We both had fajita salads. I got a double dose of guacamole because my husband doesn't eat it so I could have his. 

If you haven't checked it out, we have started a new challenge at Art Journal Journey. This month Matilde is hosting with the theme of birds. 

My latest page combines bird with gardens.

The background is tissue paper as well as watercolor paint. Then I used matte medium and attached some printed tissue paper, a piece of paper trim and some brick printed paper. I also added a few images I cut out of some other paper as well as a strip of thin washi tape. To pull the page together, I used a rock path stencil several times with white gesso around my already attached images. Then I added the quote, outlined it, and also added a few white foamy flowers on the bottom left.

OK, this post has a lot going on, so I will end it here.

Have a great T day, start to the new month, week ahead. Also thanks for visiting my blog.