Ashley and Miles brought the grandgirls over Saturday afternoon. They just picked them up about 4:30 pm Monday. The blog reflects the long weekend!

Interesting.

Studied Spanish all three days.

I used the dialog box option for the first time this weekend. It was really helpful for clearing up some uncertainties about some answers.

Sunday, I achieved a milestone by being promoted to the Diamond league of Duolingo. That’s the highest level of achievement one can make on a platform of over 500 million people. It really just means you’re extremely consistent and get a lot of answers correct. Still, pretty cool.

I do a lot of different things to study Spanish.

I got a lot of XP by doing these timed tests.

I sit out on my porch when I’m studying. I repeat the sentence three times each, so I prefer to be by myself so I can really concentrate on getting the pronunciation correct.

I listened to some of this in Spanish. Then went to Carnegie.

I had a great night’s sleep on Friday. Saturday’s was one of the worst in a while. Fortunately, Kathy let me go back to bed for a couple of hours. That really helped.

Pretty mild weather.

Brain training.

OYB!

Saturday morning I got my taxes done! I tried to take them twice on Monday, but the line was out the door. I’ll drop Ashley’s package off as well. I have to stand in line at the Post Office to get a certified delivery.

Picked up the groceries on Sunday.

I enjoyed the girls so much.

They went to sleep around 9:00 pm each night.

Cuties!

We talked about this song.

Had to look this one up.

The word itself was recondite. How meta.

OYB!

Paid bills.

Sunday felt hot!

Ice cream!

We had fun at the goose park.

Very unusual zipper cloud. Looks like zipper on both sides!

I finally got a new hose nozzle so I could clean out all the birdbaths.

I tired ’em out.

I liked this article.

OYB!

I folded clothes and cleaned my sheets.

We cleaned the glass doors.

Blew the driveway.

Brushed and put pigtails in the girls hair.

Also trimmed Everly’s bangs.

Penelope, Everly and I put the labels on the letters. We’ll get those printed Wednesday morning, I hope.

Vacuumed the whole house.

I used my small vacuum to do my area downstairs.

Put the fresh bedding on.

I’ve had my car at T and G since Thursday. They were closed from Thursday until today. They finally figured out what was wrong and it’ll be fixed completely tomorrow.

Got cooler and started sprinkling Monday.

Dropped off the financial report at our treasurer’s house. I’m so thankful that Ashley has continued helping with that. Amen.

Deposited checks.

Long blog!