Weekend Thriving

I had such a good time on Friday night with my college friends.  They were all, at some point, either roommates or housemates with Robb. Well, except for the girl on the far end, but she did attend our college at the same time as we did and since then has married the guy next to me, Robb's old dorm roommate.

Things got a little emotional and it was awkward but helpful to have a group hug in our row.  It's impossible to wrap our heads around what has happened and so many people are hurting.

But anyway...

The game was a lot of fun and I ate my weight in popcorn that progressively got chewier and chewier.  It was pretty humid... I didn't realize how that affected the popcorn until it did.

I was still flossing it out of my teeth the next day. :)

The balls kept getting hit foul into our area and at one time, Joel was able to protect his wife from a stray one that ricocheted off a seat in front of us.  WOOHOO!  A souvenir!!!  He gave it to a daughter who attended with us.

And instead of the kiss cam, I think they need to implement a "Cringe Cam" because we were doing LOTS of cringes from rogue balls...  And they were hilarious...  

I left as soon as the teams shook hands because I still had a drive home that night.  They were all either at a hotel or one of their daughter's for the night.

I met up with them again the next morning and we attended the farmer's market.  And I JUST remembered the cheese that I bought!!!  I know what my morning snack will be!!

When I got back into town, I immediately changed and went over to Meri's to mow her yard.  It was completed finally and I turned off the mower to go get a refill on the gas.  And then it wouldn't start...  That's always just the way, isn't it?  So I sat in my car and watched the Abyss on my cell phone, waiting for the mower to cool.

In the meanwhile, Meri got home from work and invited me in.  We spent the afternoon together working on projects around her house and enjoying some lunch.  I'd forgotten to eat.

Then when she had to head off to an engagement party, I headed out of town as well on the mower.  Since the bridge is out and the alfalfa field that I'd been using as an alternative way to get across the creek that splits our town in half, had grown taller than the mower since I'd cut through it,  I had to drive the 4 miles around on the detour...  REALLY?!!!!  

Yes. really...  

I pulled my t-shirt sleeves up over my shoulders so I wouldn't get the farmer's tan thing going and headed out of town.  SO.MANY.CARS.PASSING...  I lied to Meri and told her that I only got flipped off and honked at twice.  She felt bad so I had to tell her those were lies.  Everyone was super patient to drive around me.  Found out last night that a friend from our Grief Share group saw me and wondered if she needed to turn around and follow me in case I ran out of gas. hmmm..

I'm glad she didn't!

In the course of a solid hour to drive the detour, I got some color in my cheeks and rest of me.  Robb would have gotten sunburned completely in the first mile.  But my melanin is a bit different than his was so it's just a light tan.  Also got covered in sweat and dust from the gravel road part of the detour.

I quickly mowed the front yard as soon as I got back to my house and before turning off the mower, because you know... it overheats...

Then I walked back to Meri's for my car.  This is what I COULD have driven the mower down and back up if I'd opted to go this route.  I still think I could have done it, but Meri says no.  It's pretty steep...

And THIS bridge is supposed to be done a week from Wednesday.  I'm taking bets on the actual date...  Because I don't think they're going to make it.  There's still a pretty big gap to fill in on both sides of the bridge.

I had a good soak in the tub when I finally got home and don't think I even ate supper.  My lunch was at 3:30 anyway, so not a big deal...  Leon calls that "lupper".

Then lots of stuff happened on Sunday and it was all a blur.  Just normal, rushing here or there, church, the last Sunday School til fall, getting my students in trouble by giving them whistles, picking up the boy, dropping off stuff at MIL's, Grief Share, DUO call with Maddy, etc.

Meri and I will finally be going to that Godzilla movie tonight.  I hope.  And maybe Leon will go with us.  That remains to be seen...

Already plotting out next weekend!

Living for that weekend baby!!!

If you think I'm

I was GOING to mow Meri's yard last night, but thankfully she said that she hadn't had a chance to pick up branches and twigs from her yard yet and she wasn't home.  She was out in a parking lot, social distancing and getting caught up with some friends she hadn't seen in over a month.

She said, "Let's get it done tomorrow!"

And I said okey dokey.  Fortunately for me, before too long, a rainy, blustery storm blew through.  I would have been riding home (maybe by that time) and been caught in it.

Unfortunately it's supposed to rain today too... So who knows?  

Maybe she can buy a goat.

I visited with my bestie, Ada, over lunch yesterday.  I have a lawn chair always in my car for such occasions and sat outside her nursing home window, with her on her speaker phone and got buzzed several times by a rogue wasp that must have a hive around there somewhere...  We had a great visit and I was loathe to leave but I wore long pants and was starting to over heat.  It got close to 80 yesterday!  

So I came home and changed to shorts and sandals.  I could live in weather like this easily!

If I dress for the part...

She is a member of our church too, that's where we met.  And since the current plague took over, she hasn't gotten to have our pastor come in to the home, nor able to hear any of the sermons.  Her hubs usually brings her the written sermon to read but he hasn't been able to come in either.

So since Robb records the sermons, he has all of them on his computer.  She has a dvd player in her room and the aides can run it for her, so he's going to burn them to dvds.  I called the home's policies on the best way to get them to her and got the info.  It'll be a 24 hour delay before she gets them, but with any luck, she'll have a service to watch on Sunday!

Robb has a bagpipe gig tonight!!!  He's playing on the lawn of a friend's dad, who turned 85 years old today.  The family and friends will be lining the street with their cars to help celebrate.  

It'll be as close to St Patrick's Day as we're going to get this year...

from several years ago.  Here's my little TIGER!

Robb got out his pipes and chanter last night to practice.  And while he'll be playing Scotland the Brave, Amazing Grace and of course Happy Birthday, he practiced with a tune that I didn't recognize right away.  

"What's THAT song?"  "You know it..."  "Please play it again."

It was "If you think I'm sexy" by Rod Stewart.

probably not appropriate for the birthday gig... ;)

Weekend Snake Guts

How would you like to come around the yard mowing and find this?!  

I must have caught it unawares while zipping around the apple tree...

I took the pic and sent it to Robb.  He texted back.  "We'll move."

Well, it's DEAD now...!  So we don't HAVE to!  I'll just protect us with the lawn mower.

On Friday, Leon and I went on an adventure and returned four of the mannequins from the grad party to their rightful owners.  I still have two left, but that lady lives a long ways away, so it will wait until the next sewing meeting.  We had some good conversations on the way but he mostly had his nose in his tablet...

He was mostly excited about the "fun place" that I promised that I'd take him.  When we got close to it, I realized that we'd been here before!  

He had been invited to a birthday party here back in preschool.    

He didn't remember and had a blast running all over the place.  I found a nice place to relax and realized that I should have charged my phone on the way down.  The percentage was at 8%...  sigh...  I got some pics in before it died.

 

 I dug out some quarters and he and I played some air hockey.  It was close...  Then later, he was playing with a boy and I found some more change.  He asked the boy to play it with him and then he got creamed.  I may have been holding back...  But Leon didn't care and was just excited to be playing the game with his new friend.

Loads more running around and bouncing and suddenly we'd been there an hour and it was time to take him to his mom's for the weekend.  darn.  I dropped him off and headed home.

My niece, Bethany, arrived the next morning and spent until this morning here with Meri.  They mostly avoided the house and spent money.  But they did play some board and card games with us in the evenings for a bit. 

I spent my free time sewing.  I made two pairs of black leggings and let the girls pick which ones they wanted.  Will make more of those now that I have Meri's size perfected!  Easy peasy!  Two hours later a new pair is done.

Meri was asked to sing with a small group of people for a funeral grave side service.  So right after church, she ditched us and ran home to practice with them in our living room.  I found that she DOES care what people think of our house!!  When we got home after lunch out with Bethany, she had done a bit more tidying...  Nice...  She's going to have to have more friends and their parents over more often...  She and a couple of the guys from the group have decided to start a new singing group called Dead Set.  Not sure if they're get a LOT of funeral gigs with that name, but I liked it.

Robb and I took Bethany to lunch at the pub where Ryan works.  It was early enough that we were the only customers there for almost 30 minutes, so Ryan was able to sit and visit a little.  He also brought us out some jalapeno cheddar balls to try out.  Oh...  those were delish!!!!

Bethany had to leave this morning, so she and Meri went to Meri's favorite coffee shop before she hit the road and Meri went to work.  I've got a TON of fettuccine noodles left over from Bethy's favorite meal last night and am wondering what to do with them.  

But not for lunch.  I have a lunch date with Ada today. :)

Random Thoughts

Well, my dear sweet cousin removed his comments from my FB wall since last night and replaced it with a new one. Something about how I'm his favorite cousin in the whole wide world and that he misses me!

My new question...

Which of you sent him a message? Or did someone in his family hijack his FB account temporarily?

Oh well. And if you must know... I chose option #1 yesterday. Left it alone. I REEEEAAALLY wanted to post the video but knew it would only keep things going and I would regret it. My husband is pretty wise...

Anyway... Just so you know... Most of the Easter candy is gone except for some Peeps and a few solid chocolate bunnies. darn.

It's kind of weird. My yard is the only one in the neighborhood that looks like it's been shot with Round up and a little kid with Dandelion fluffs to blow on. We cancelled our yard service a year ago and our yard sure looks it. I'm reminded of the yard on the TV show Malcolm In The Middle every time I go outside... I guess I need to read up on how to feed our lawn with skunky beer or something. Master gardener, where are you?

While everyone else's lilac bushes are in full bloom right now, as usual, our special variety is behind by about a month. The little buds are starting but it will be a while before I'm bathed in lilac scent when I step onto the porch. I can't wait!

Leon is actually in a baby schedule of sorts! The evening hours are his screaming time. darn. I remember those days. That was Meri's screaming time too. We had evening church at the time, so that was tricky.

I'm currently making Florescent light tea. That's when you're too lazy to find the actual sun tea jar, or put anything out on the deck. So you just put some lukewarm water in a pitcher with a few tea bags and wait for it to get darker just because I said so. I've got another pitcher of ice to dump in along with some sweetener when the time is right. I may not get to drink any of it until probably 10am... I'm out of DDP.

As it typically happens, my back and neck went *pop* last night and this morning I awoke with a splitting headache. That's not good. Especially on a Thursday when all the chiropractors all go golfing together and all their offices are closed. The meds should kick in soon I hope.

Tonight, if my headache has faded a little, I will be working on the prom dress. As reminded, prom is in 2.25 weeks. Will be doing the zipper and reworking the side seam tonight and possibly getting started on the hem because the girls will be headed out of town this weekend. This might be my only shot during the whole weekend at getting the length right.

Well... This has been a random post for the week. Come back tomorrow and maybe I'll finally post that quiche recipe I promised!

Birds & the pups

The puppies are a little bigger. The mother is exhausted. She doesn't get to move much I've noticed...The pups lay all over her after eating, well.. pretty much like my babies did on me. But only more babies than I had at one time.

Anyway, getting off the puppy topics... Oh! They're getting their dew claws off this afternoon!

But anyway... I took a few pics of some of our yard plants & trees that are coming in and blooming up. The rain last night perked up a lot of things and flattened a few others...

Enjoy & have a great day!