Happy Mother's Day

May 9th - Sunday - Mother's Day - Cold, Snow flurries and very windy

Low 34 degrees - High 46 degrees

This Mother's Day dawned with the furnace coming on, tree limbs laying on the deck and the birds hunting for more peanut butter. As Lou and I looked out our bathroom window, we noted that the wind had blown boards off our white board fence that surrounds our property. We were away most of the afternoon and evening yesterday and when we returned home, found we had been without power for a number of hours.

I will back up a bit with the blog, as I missed several days. We spent Friday outside all day long. We went for our normal two mile walk and as we were starting our walk we noticed a bee nest on the sign next to where we park our car to walk. You can see from the picture that it is on both sides of the sign.

We finished the garden and indeed got all of the seeds into the ground, thankfully they are in the warm ground and not above to be frozen tonight. Lou used his weedeater while I was using mine and we made quick work of the banks out back and finished up around the house. After we finished all of that, Lou looked around and said that the yard would look better if it were cut again before the weekend, so while I cleaned up all of our tools and put things away, he cut the grass for the third time since we have returned. I had fixed dinner while we were preparing breakfast and had everything ready to go into the oven, so dinner was already for us when we both finished.

After dinner, I went back out and washed some windows on the outside, fed the birds and pulled out a few of our yard decorations. As it started to get dark, Lou went to his house to check the mail and take things to his sister's house. I quickly went through the house and dusted, ran the sweeper and cleaned bathrooms, and by the time he got back, we had time to sit down and enjoy a movie together.

Saturday morning, we got up to a clean organized home again, and decided with all of the wind we would walk a little later in town, as we had errands to do and wanted to do some visiting at the Green Home. By the time I had finished the laundry, hanging it all outside in the wind to dry, we enjoyed a late lunch and headed to town. I had eight huge garbage bags of clothes to donate to Goodwill, so we dropped them off and then to the Green Home to visit with Brion's father, what a delightful visit we had with him and stayed much longer than we had anticipated and by the time we left there, the specialty shops I had wanted to stop at were closed.

We stopped at Susie and Tim's house to drop off several items and chatted with them, and ended up staying and having dinner with them. It was so nice to have home cooking by someone different, she even made home-made Johnny Cake to go with her baked Goulash. All was a treat to Lou and I and we spent the evening talking with them and catching up on the happenings of a three month time slot.

When we returned home we found a cold house, and a dog that was glad to see someone. We put in a Netflix movie, had a fire in the fireplace and enjoyed "Tuesdays with Moory." An enjoyable day and evening all the way around.

Today Lou and I went to church, of which we had a good attendance, and a wonderful sermon on Lydia, from Acts 16. Our pastor had chosen hymns that are old favorites of the congregation, the first one being Lou's, In the Garden, and the last one being one of mine, It is Well with my Soul. We had coffee hour after church, then Lou took me out to dinner. We chose Babb's Creek Inn and enjoyed a fine dinner and drove home in a flurry of snow! Wonder what next Sunday will bring?