Star wars, flowers and paperwork

 First, wishing you a good Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you

My day started with an hour and a half taking pictures and sending them of documents for the HOA. 

My phone often drops the Wi-Fi then I turn to mobile data which is very slow, then Wi-Fi comes back and confuses everything. But I eventually got it done and hope there aren't objections.

Walking today was all about flowers, and a golfer who was amazed when I tossed back his ball which he knocked way out of bounds. He was so grateful! But I always toss back golf balls on my path.  

You can smell the honeysuckle from a distance. I know it's an invasive but in spring it's lovely 

Here's a neighbor's clematis

Home again and the honesty is just booming

 

As you see, both sides of the gate

The sweet William is coming along, too.

My Japanese maple is doing a whole lot better now that Gary's butterfly bush is no more. It was crowding and shading the maple. Its color is much better this year.

Down the street a dogwood is getting heavy equipment attention 

They used to just prop up a ladder, but I suppose this is safer for the operator.

Happy day everyone, plow through the paperwork of life then get to the flowers.

Lace cookies and paperwork

In anticipation of Handsome Son's visit this afternoon to help get through the annual paperwork blitz for the HOA, I baked.

Lace cookies, first time I tried them, and they went over well.

Very buttery and sweet, definitely a keeper.

After we'd enjoyed some, with pots of tea, we spent the rest of the afternoon wrestling with files, trying to produce all the list of documents and proofs required by the HOA. 

Mostly they are state and township requirements, but some simply are unchanging, don't need to be produced every year, one time should do it. I get very anxious and upset about this because of past harassment by various management reps over these documents sometimes demanding the same ones repeatedly after receiving several copies. We've had bullies in that office. And incompetents.

Anyway we have now put a better system in place, with all the vital docs in a file of their own, rather than in the logical files they were in.  It's counterintuitive but they blindsided us with the complete list all at once, a first. This will help Handsome Son as my tenant and heir, in future, to take over more of the paperwork. 

So that and a bit of knitting pretty much filled the day. I've had better days, but now it's done. And the cookies were good 

Happy day everyone! Before dreaded paperwork, be sure and load up on cookies. Recommended course of action by Ted and Big Ursy and Pony and Ursula.