I fell yesterday. I was at my nephew’s home, for his daughter’s fifth birthday. As I started to step out the back door, I turned to answer a question, and I think my dress shoes slid on the doorstep. I landed on my knees, and my horrified family all rushed to my assistance. I needed to calm them down so that I could get up….there were six or eight hands under various parts of my body! lol
I didn’t hurt my knees, but every other muscle in my body is talking to me about it’s part in trying to keep me from falling. I knew what I was going to feel like, so I was good, and went to exercise today! I’m sure Lynda is helping me go into old age with more grace…..er…..comfort.
Yesterday, I stopped at a McDonalds. I’ve found that I have favorite McDonalds, and also ones I won’t ever patronize again. This was one of the latter. I don’t understand how some of them can stay in business when it takes them longer to serve a cup of iced tea than it does a sit down dinner! I was really ticked. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that you ask a client to pull forward until their order is ready, when you have others lined up behind them. AND, don’t you think it would make sense to place an employee who is conversant with English at the drive up microphone?????
Last Sunday, I was working on the yard with my sis….remember…the gift of time? Well….in a very spastic move, I turned the wheelbarrow over on it’s side, and it landed on my foot. I think I might be loosing my toe nail. Damn!
I’m going shopping for summer clothes on-line. Think there will be any left? It’s not even June, and we’re already starting to see end of season sales. I haven’t bought a thing to wear for vacation, and they are already talking about FALL clothes. Jeeze….you have to order things a year ahead and PRAY that you don’t change sizes!
Did you know that Texas is the only state to join the union by TREATY….and that they have the right to fly their state flag at the same height as the United States flag?
Gas yesterday….plain old regular gas, was TWO DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS! What the heck is going on?? Why do the refineries keep saying the cost is due to a delay in shifting over to summer blends? Do you suppose that they don’t know summer comes every year at this time?? This sure feels like price gouging to me!
IN a month or so, remind me to talk to you about unions. I have a LOT to say!

Just last Friday we hosted a brunch for our exercise class. Luckily, it was a pot luck, so there wasn’t an inordinate amount of preparation involved, but it took some time. I wanted everything to be perfect, and we fell far short. Mother Nature has given us so much rain, that the gardens are bursting, with flowers AND weeds. I tamed what I could, and resolved not to worry about the rest.
Today, we are in the midst of preparations for a tea for my mother’s Empty Nesters group. I rose a little early to get a start on cleaning the kitchen. I fed the birds and watered the herbs that I still need to plant. I ironed the table cloth for the dining room and put it on the table and then we ran for exercise class.
After class, we grocery shopped, and once the groceries were put away, I ironed the white embroidered cloth that sits on point over the burgundy table cloth, and replaced the Waterford hurricanes and cut glass bowl. It’s a relief to know that one room is ready to go.
I’ve had the same quilt on the wall in the great room for some time, and Friday I realized that I have another that might make a pleasant change. When DH is home this evening, I’ll get his help making the swap. The new one is slightly darker, and the colors are more organized and less scrappy. It’s a Friendship Star quilt, for those of you who recognize quilt patterns. The background lattice is shaded in light cream colored fabrics in one direction, and medium ecru fabrics on the other diagonal. I’ll see if I can’t get a picture of it, once it’s up.
This afternoon, I have to use a hoe on the weeds in the herb garden, and pull up some volunteer oxeye daisies so that our guests can make it up the sidewalk. And, I need to bring in some peonies and lilacs for vases throughout the house.
Tonight, I hope to make cinnamon streusal muffins, and some cookies. And, if I’m lucky, I may get some strawberries dipped in chocolate. We’ll offer several different varieties of hot tea, iced tea, coffee, and some soda pop.
It’s supposed to rain tomorrow. I wonder if it will be cool enough for a small fire in the fireplace??
This is what my life is like for two days in May. Normally, I’m in the office, but we take advantage of the chance to entertain when the gardens are at their peak. I know this sounds like a bucolic version of Donna Reed’s life as a ’50s housewife, but believe me…..it’s only for a few days! When the heat hits, I’ll desert my gardens (though I’ll snarl a lot about WEEDS!), and I’ll return to my office life, so enjoy the gardens with me, for now.