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I did a preliminary on our taxes. Everything looks good. I’ll finish them up over the weekend I think. I always use turbo tax. It does cost but I find that they are efficient and all the right boxes are checked.

Yesterday I had PT quite early and she had me do some machines and later my knee was definitely aching. I guess I just need to keep strengthening the knee and will have to deal with some aches in the meanwhile. I’ll be sure to let her know next week though.

The rain is headed back our way tomorrow. I hope it holds off till I get back from Sacramento. But it looks like rain from Wed to next Monday.

I went off to the garden shed yesterday to rearrange the canning stuff. I couldn’t even get to them so I asked B to take some stuff out to the empty shelves in the barn. That way I can get to the other stuff in the shed. Mostly, the box with the Ikea Christmas tree and the bin of extra Christmas stuff can go out there. Other than that I’m not sure what’s in the other boxes. I’m going to try and get to that today. Here’s a quote from the author S.G.

“If you can’t see it and you can’t reach it, you won’t use it”.

Pretty good advice, I think.

A beautiful sunrise

Frugal Friday

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The sunrise on our daily walk.

It was a frugalish week. No major expenses came up except buying the paint for the garden shed and the fence( redwood stain) but my daughter paid for these as part of her monthly rent. It worked out well especially since paint is so expensive.

I did do the Trader Joe’s shop but that will carry over to May’s food budget. So far the month looks good on the food budget. I’m definitely under $600. Separating wine/beer and non food has given me a better picture of what is just food. Of course, there wasn’t a big Costco shop this month. We are planning Costco on Sunday as the coffee is almost gone. So I suspect that will come in @ $400. We have our rebate to use so that will reduce the cash flow out.

Here are some of the lilacs blooming.

We both submitted our LLS copays and we should be getting that refunded as part of our grant with them. I’m absolutely sure we would not be making ends meet if we had to pay the medical copays. So the LLS grants( done yearly) are a big savings for us.

Tonight is pizza night and I’m doing a homemade one with TJ’s dough. I have to say the pizza dough is one of their best deals at $1.19( I think) it may have gone up. But you get 2 pizzzas out of one dough and the freeze really well.

I’m still debating getting the outside pizza oven. I think we’d get our money’s worth out of it but still it is a one use thing which I don’t normally like to do. But we calculated 10 pizzas at $30 would pay for it. Since we have pizza almost every Friday night it would pay for itself pretty quickly. The big advantage is it heats up to 925 degrees in 15 minutes. You’ll never get a conventional oven to do that.