Catching Up

May 15th Thursday - Overcast 78 degrees

I am writing this blog post as we  travel in the motor home to our SMART Muster near Strasburg, PA.  We have been really busy at home with outside work that I haven’t taken time to do a blog post, not that there hasn’t been anything to write about.

We have planted our garden, in fact I have to give Lou credit for doing all of the jobs associated with that this year.  He rototilled it until it looked like a bed of ashes.  He even has two beautiful tomato plants started.  We will wait for the rest of our plants until we get back home.  He has cut the grass twice, since getting the lawn all prepared for spring.  He even cut our friend’s lawn next door, as they are away for a short vacation to attend a grandson’s graduation in Georgia.  He has always done  so much for us in the past we are glad to sneak in a favor for him when we can.

I have had a cold for over two weeks and can’t seem to shake it, and it has really dragged me down, I work a while and rest a while, not like me at all.

We have  spent some great time with our great-grand kids and have loved every minute of it.  We stopped at Shawn and Maegan’s one Sunday after church to drop off a couple of things and ended up staying all afternoon, but it was a great afternoon.  Five little girls can offer a lot of love and fun.

Mother’s Day started off with breakfast with Brion and Janet at 9:00 in Mansfield.  That is always a special time to be able to catch with what is happening in their lives and with the boys.  They are always eager to share happenings and stories.  We attended church with Maegan and her family, as she and the girls were scheduled to sing with her dad as he played the guitar.  The song they sang was one that her father, Joe Powell wrote years ago as a tribute to Mothers.  It was wonderfully done and well received by all that heard it.  It was remarkable in many ways, as Joe had been involved in a chainsaw accident last fall with severe injury to his hand and we all feared he would not be able to use his hand, but thanks to many prayers, a fine surgeon and hard work on Joe’s part most of the flexibility has been restored.

After our church service we went back to Maegan’s for lunch on their big  spacious porch.  Time to catch up with Sue and Tim on what has been happening in their lives also.  Another good Sunday afternoon.

The girls playing on the trampoline 

After Christmas I had told Susan that I needed a new Christmas runner for my kitchen table and she said that she would be glad to make one for me, and when she and Tim were over for dinner, she measured our table, so I knew she would do it, but I sure wasn't expecting it as a Mother's Day present.  She took into consideration the color of our dinner ware and you can see the finished product at the  top of the blog.  Susie does beautiful work and her stitches are perfectly straight.  I will use it the day after Thanksgiving, if I can wait that long.

We had just gotten home and Krista, Michelle, and Matthew came down with cards and a beautiful hanging basket of purple wave miniature petunias.  We all went outside and they helped us do a couple odd jobs that needed an extra pair of hands.  Matthew is getting pretty good with his speech and has decided that he is going to call Lou “Pa”, much easier that grandpa.

On Monday Krista and her family went to a funeral and we kept Matthew, he brought down his favorite movie Planes, so we had a picnic in the living room and we watch it, wow it was really good, you know his grandpa enjoyed it.  They have played planes since he was old enough to hold one in his hand and they look for them in the air.  Like Lou says it is great when you had grand kids that live next door, but unfortunately when they are so close, I don't take pictures like I should and I regret this.

We just put up our new bottle tree in the garden and we both think we are going to like it.