Up around 7 a.m., but skipped my exercises so I could be ready when Niece and her husband arrived around 9 a.m. They stopped by for a brief visit before going to the Scottish Festival at the college.
We waited until after lunch to go, so we could take care of Shih Tzu's needs. We arrived at the college shortly after noon, and went to the library area, where the Scottish clans were to line up for a parade.
The colorful parade was at 1 p.m. Afterward, we went to the large entertainment tent to watch Great-Nephew perform with a Celtic group. Unfortunately, he was not called upon to join the group during the 1:30 p.m. set (he had performed in the morning, however).
We were disappointed, but we decided to stick around and listen to a Scottish performer play guitar and sing. He entertained for about 45 minutes, and then the Celtic group came back. Finally, toward the end of the set, Great-Nephew accompanied a singer on banjo for one song.
After that, as we strolled back to the van, passing clan booths, and booths selling a variety of goods from bejeweled daggers, to jewelry, to tams, to scarves, to clothing, to baked goods, I stopped at one and bought a loaf of Irish soda bread and an Irish dark chocolate cake.
We were back home around 4 p.m., and I put noodles in the chicken broth for soup to be served with chicken salad sandwiches. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I settled in front of TV.
It was a beautiful day for a festival, if a bit hot for so early in the season. But there was breeze that helped. We were lucky to get such good weather...for the past several years, Scottish festival weekend has been cold and rainy. Last year, it rained so hard and for so long that the ground became sloppy. Vendors folded early and left, and attendance was way down. That's why there was no admittance charge to the festival this year, the college president noted during his opening ceremony remarks. It was the college's way to make up for the disappointment last year.
Because the admittance charge had gone up and up and up over the years, we stopped going to the festival a number of years ago. We were glad to be able to attend again this year.
The crowd was huge. So much so that we feared we wouldn't be able to find a parking space close to the festival grounds. But luck was with us, because we found an open space immediately adjacent to the campus grounds, making it easy to unload the wheelchair for Mother.
Funny: during the opening ceremony, the Scottish singer was charged with introducing the dignitaries. Before he did that, he commented on how pleased he was to once again be able to entertain "here in Arizona." Oops, wrong state. Strange that he should mistake where he was, since he commented that this was his 26th year to attend this festival.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday, April 8
Up at 7:30, and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. While I was getting ready for the day, Mother came over and stewed chicken breasts for making chicken salad for the weekend.
We spent the rest of the morning sprucing the house in anticipation of having company...Niece and her husband, and Great-Nephew, will stop by on their way to the Scottish Festival, where Great-Nephew will join a Celtic group as part of the entertainment. Great-Nephew plays fiddle. We've heard him play individually as a bluegrass artist, but we haven't seen him play as part of a group, so we're looking forward to it.
Later, after lunch, Hubbie and I ran a few errands...to a grocery store for cottage cheese, to a pharmacy for hair color and cans of chicken broth that were on sale, to the hydroponic farm for tomatoes, to the WDCS for groceries for the weekend, to a gas station, and to the bank.
Back home, Hubbie went out to work in the yard, while Mother and I relaxed. For supper, we had leftover stir fry, and then we got ready to go see a high school production of the musical, "Camelot."
"Camelot" is, of course, the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, the arranged marriage between the king and Guinevere, and the eventual betrayal by Guinevere with the king's most beloved knight, Sir Lancelot.
The production, which took place in the auditorium of a middle school, started at 7 p.m. We arrived around 6:30. The auditorium is wheelchair accessible, so Mother did not have to walk the long length from the parking lot to the facility.
Once inside, though, Mother was able to walk the short distance to a seat. The seats in this auditorium are small and wooden, with no padding. So we brought along stadium cushions. The community theatre offered cushions for rent, but I wasn't sure if a BCT representative would be there tonight, so we brought our own. I can't imagine trying to sit in those seats for the three hours the production lasted without a stadium cushion, but some did.
The play was good...it would be hard to go wrong with such great music by Lerner and Loewe. And fortunately, the actors, except for a few minor characters, wore mics,so we could hear them. One of Hubbie's biggest complaints about live theater is not being able to hear the actors.
The kids did a pretty good job in their roles, under the direction of their drama teacher, who is a former member of the community theater. It wasn't professional, but it was charming.
The play ended at 10 p.m., so by the time we got back home, we were ready to call it a night.
We spent the rest of the morning sprucing the house in anticipation of having company...Niece and her husband, and Great-Nephew, will stop by on their way to the Scottish Festival, where Great-Nephew will join a Celtic group as part of the entertainment. Great-Nephew plays fiddle. We've heard him play individually as a bluegrass artist, but we haven't seen him play as part of a group, so we're looking forward to it.
Later, after lunch, Hubbie and I ran a few errands...to a grocery store for cottage cheese, to a pharmacy for hair color and cans of chicken broth that were on sale, to the hydroponic farm for tomatoes, to the WDCS for groceries for the weekend, to a gas station, and to the bank.
Back home, Hubbie went out to work in the yard, while Mother and I relaxed. For supper, we had leftover stir fry, and then we got ready to go see a high school production of the musical, "Camelot."
"Camelot" is, of course, the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, the arranged marriage between the king and Guinevere, and the eventual betrayal by Guinevere with the king's most beloved knight, Sir Lancelot.
The production, which took place in the auditorium of a middle school, started at 7 p.m. We arrived around 6:30. The auditorium is wheelchair accessible, so Mother did not have to walk the long length from the parking lot to the facility.
Once inside, though, Mother was able to walk the short distance to a seat. The seats in this auditorium are small and wooden, with no padding. So we brought along stadium cushions. The community theatre offered cushions for rent, but I wasn't sure if a BCT representative would be there tonight, so we brought our own. I can't imagine trying to sit in those seats for the three hours the production lasted without a stadium cushion, but some did.
The play was good...it would be hard to go wrong with such great music by Lerner and Loewe. And fortunately, the actors, except for a few minor characters, wore mics,so we could hear them. One of Hubbie's biggest complaints about live theater is not being able to hear the actors.
The kids did a pretty good job in their roles, under the direction of their drama teacher, who is a former member of the community theater. It wasn't professional, but it was charming.
The play ended at 10 p.m., so by the time we got back home, we were ready to call it a night.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Thursday, April 7
Up at 7:30 and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Once I was ready for the day, I did this and that around the house, while Hubbie ran a few errands. Mother opted to stay at her house today.
After lunch, Hubbie and I went to the college library to help sort books for a book sale this weekend during the Scottish Festival. We arrived shortly before 1 p.m., as agreed, but found that the job was already done. We were told that there was a lot of help available during the morning (probably students), so the task went faster than expected.
But we were invited to browse the books and buy any we wanted. I found a couple of audio books on CD, along with several novels. Hubbie found a John Grisham novel he hasn't read before.
Back home, we didn't accomplish anything the rest of the afternoon. Around 5:30, we went back to the library to attend a champagne reception for the Friends of the Library.
The reception was held in what's known as the Tornado Garden. Its name derives from a large cross that is its focal point. The cross once graced the steeple of the chapel, but was wrenched from it's place by a tornado in 1973. A professor salvaged it, and later donated it back to the college.
The garden is a renovated courtyard in the center of the library building that once only featured a picnic table. Now, the garden has stone walkways between white rock areas, concrete benches and wooden chairs and tables, a small fountain, and Japanese maple trees and other plants. It's a recently renovated space, and one that I had not seen before tonight.
This was the first Friends of the Library champagne reception hosted by the library, and folks came dressed in a variety of ways, as is the case for most events we attend. There was everything from suits to blue jeans. We dressed up...Hubbie in a suit and tie, and I in an animal print blouse with sheer sleeves over tan slacks, accented with a necklace of strands of brown beads centered with small ivory colored elephants.
We didn't feel particularly overdressed, since the college president and his wife wore suits, as did the director of the library, and other men and women. The theater director wore a reddish suit jacket over a chambray shirt and blue jeans, as befitted an "artsy" type.
Refreshments, besides champagne served in plastic stem glasses, were hot mini-quiches, small squares of a type of pizza...crusts spread with cream cheese and topped with raw veggies, a variety of cheese cubes, and mixed nuts.
After we'd visited for a while, we returned to the book sale, where I found and bought several more novels. We were back home around 7 p.m., and spent the rest of the evening watching TV.
Funny: at the book sale tables, we browsed alongside the president's wife and her mother. In a few minutes, we were joined by a college staff member. She remarked to the president's wife that she was supposed to attend a juried art show tonight with the president, but she wasn't sure how long he planned to stay at the reception, and she wanted to get to the art show before a piece that she wanted to buy was sold to someone else.
The president's wife advised the lady not to wait for the president, because she'd learned over the years that, "you should only go with my husband if you like to go places alone." Apparently, the president is not a slave to time and events.
However, the statement was no sooner out of her mouth than here came the president. He obviously hadn't heard the remark, though, and as he left the library, we all broke into laughter.
After lunch, Hubbie and I went to the college library to help sort books for a book sale this weekend during the Scottish Festival. We arrived shortly before 1 p.m., as agreed, but found that the job was already done. We were told that there was a lot of help available during the morning (probably students), so the task went faster than expected.
But we were invited to browse the books and buy any we wanted. I found a couple of audio books on CD, along with several novels. Hubbie found a John Grisham novel he hasn't read before.
Back home, we didn't accomplish anything the rest of the afternoon. Around 5:30, we went back to the library to attend a champagne reception for the Friends of the Library.
The reception was held in what's known as the Tornado Garden. Its name derives from a large cross that is its focal point. The cross once graced the steeple of the chapel, but was wrenched from it's place by a tornado in 1973. A professor salvaged it, and later donated it back to the college.
The garden is a renovated courtyard in the center of the library building that once only featured a picnic table. Now, the garden has stone walkways between white rock areas, concrete benches and wooden chairs and tables, a small fountain, and Japanese maple trees and other plants. It's a recently renovated space, and one that I had not seen before tonight.
This was the first Friends of the Library champagne reception hosted by the library, and folks came dressed in a variety of ways, as is the case for most events we attend. There was everything from suits to blue jeans. We dressed up...Hubbie in a suit and tie, and I in an animal print blouse with sheer sleeves over tan slacks, accented with a necklace of strands of brown beads centered with small ivory colored elephants.
We didn't feel particularly overdressed, since the college president and his wife wore suits, as did the director of the library, and other men and women. The theater director wore a reddish suit jacket over a chambray shirt and blue jeans, as befitted an "artsy" type.
Refreshments, besides champagne served in plastic stem glasses, were hot mini-quiches, small squares of a type of pizza...crusts spread with cream cheese and topped with raw veggies, a variety of cheese cubes, and mixed nuts.
After we'd visited for a while, we returned to the book sale, where I found and bought several more novels. We were back home around 7 p.m., and spent the rest of the evening watching TV.
Funny: at the book sale tables, we browsed alongside the president's wife and her mother. In a few minutes, we were joined by a college staff member. She remarked to the president's wife that she was supposed to attend a juried art show tonight with the president, but she wasn't sure how long he planned to stay at the reception, and she wanted to get to the art show before a piece that she wanted to buy was sold to someone else.
The president's wife advised the lady not to wait for the president, because she'd learned over the years that, "you should only go with my husband if you like to go places alone." Apparently, the president is not a slave to time and events.
However, the statement was no sooner out of her mouth than here came the president. He obviously hadn't heard the remark, though, and as he left the library, we all broke into laughter.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Wednesday, April 6
Today is Great-Granddaughter's birthday. Happy Birthday, Great-Granddaughter!
Up at 7:30, and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. While I was getting ready for the day, Mother cut up veggies for a stir fry supper.
Around 8:30, Hubbie joined a group of Master Gardeners in cleaning one of the public gardens they are responsible for. He was back home around 10:30.
We spent the rest of the morning doing this and that around the house, and then we wasted our afternoon after lunch watching the exceedingly long movie, "Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. I was curious to see it again after the recent death of Elizabeth Taylor.
It'd been many years since I'd seen it, and I'd forgotten how long it is at three hours and twenty minutes. It's still a good movie, though. It was released in 1963, at a time when filmmakers were beginning to be more daring with costumes, or the lack thereof. One scene shows Taylor on her stomach with the length of her body exposed. A small flesh-colored towel, folded lengthwise, discreetly covers part of her behind, and no bulge of her chest shows, though plenty of her chest is exposed in the very low-cut dresses she wears.
It's rather disturbing to realize that the main actors in this film, except for three or four, are now deceased. The only one who still survives that I recognize is Martin Landau.
The stir fry over rice for supper was very good. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I continued to idle in front of TV. Tonight, we watched the 2009, R-rated movie, "Dorian Gray," starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. The movie is, of course, based on the classic novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," by Oscar Wilde. A man who wants to keep his beauty as painted in his portrait, makes a deal with the devil in exchange for a path of murder and wickedness. As he sinks lower into depravity, his portrait becomes ravaged.
Up at 7:30, and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. While I was getting ready for the day, Mother cut up veggies for a stir fry supper.
Around 8:30, Hubbie joined a group of Master Gardeners in cleaning one of the public gardens they are responsible for. He was back home around 10:30.
We spent the rest of the morning doing this and that around the house, and then we wasted our afternoon after lunch watching the exceedingly long movie, "Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. I was curious to see it again after the recent death of Elizabeth Taylor.
It'd been many years since I'd seen it, and I'd forgotten how long it is at three hours and twenty minutes. It's still a good movie, though. It was released in 1963, at a time when filmmakers were beginning to be more daring with costumes, or the lack thereof. One scene shows Taylor on her stomach with the length of her body exposed. A small flesh-colored towel, folded lengthwise, discreetly covers part of her behind, and no bulge of her chest shows, though plenty of her chest is exposed in the very low-cut dresses she wears.
It's rather disturbing to realize that the main actors in this film, except for three or four, are now deceased. The only one who still survives that I recognize is Martin Landau.
The stir fry over rice for supper was very good. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I continued to idle in front of TV. Tonight, we watched the 2009, R-rated movie, "Dorian Gray," starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. The movie is, of course, based on the classic novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," by Oscar Wilde. A man who wants to keep his beauty as painted in his portrait, makes a deal with the devil in exchange for a path of murder and wickedness. As he sinks lower into depravity, his portrait becomes ravaged.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Tuesday, April 5
Up at 7:30 on this gorgeous sunny day, and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. Mother and Sis came over mid-morning, and we watched a "Dancing with the Stars" episode that I had recorded on DVR last night.
During the two-hour show, I put the leftover lasagna meal from yesterday in the oven for our lunch.
After lunch, Sis loaded her stuff in the van for the trip home, about two hours south. Since hers is a one-vehicle family right now, she came to our house last Saturday with Daughter, with the understanding that we would drive her back home today.
We arrived in her town close to 3 p.m., and after dropping her off, we went to town a few mile away so Hubbie could shop at a home improvement store and use some gift cards he received for Christmas.
Around 4 p.m., we were on the way home, and arrived about 5:30. Mother went on to her house, and Hubbie and I fixed a supper of deli turkey sandwiches, with baby Swiss cheese, and slices of hydroponic tomatoes and sweet onions.
After that, we just kicked back and watched TV, including the elimination episode of "Dancing with the Stars."
During the two-hour show, I put the leftover lasagna meal from yesterday in the oven for our lunch.
After lunch, Sis loaded her stuff in the van for the trip home, about two hours south. Since hers is a one-vehicle family right now, she came to our house last Saturday with Daughter, with the understanding that we would drive her back home today.
We arrived in her town close to 3 p.m., and after dropping her off, we went to town a few mile away so Hubbie could shop at a home improvement store and use some gift cards he received for Christmas.
Around 4 p.m., we were on the way home, and arrived about 5:30. Mother went on to her house, and Hubbie and I fixed a supper of deli turkey sandwiches, with baby Swiss cheese, and slices of hydroponic tomatoes and sweet onions.
After that, we just kicked back and watched TV, including the elimination episode of "Dancing with the Stars."
Monday, April 4, 2011
Monday, April 4
Up at 7:30, but waited to do a treadmill session and weights exercises until a thunderstorm had passed. It was around 9 a.m. before I felt it was safe to get on the treadmill. Just as I finished getting ready for the day, another thunderstorm came through. Mother and Sis had come over before that one started.
Mother felt much better this morning. She said she went to bed as soon as she got home last night (around 8 p.m.) and slept soundly until around 5 a.m., her usual time to rise.
We didn't accomplish anything for the rest of the morning. After a lunch of the leftovers from Saturday, Hubbie and I ran a couple of errands...to a grocery store to pick up cottage cheese for making a recipe of lasagna for supper, and to the WDCS for a few other grocery items. As we left the WDCS, we were greeted by a cold wind and blowing cold rain...felt like winter again! When is spring ever going to arrive?
At home, Mother and Sis put together the lasagna, and then continued working on the jigsaw puzzle, while I read the local newspaper, and Hubbie played on the office computer.
The lasagna, served with French style green beans, tomatoes topped with cottage cheese, and slices of French bread, was very good.
Tonight, I was supposed to meet with my Literacy Council student, but thirty minutes before the appointed hour, the director of the council called to say the student had spoken with the translator and said she was going to stop classes right now, because there is too much stress in her life. So I will meet with the director soon to see if there is another student I can tutor.
This evening after supper, Mother and Sis finished the jigsaw puzzle, while Hubbie and I watched TV, including the NCAA basketball championship between Butler and UConn, which UConn handily won.
Funny: at one point today I was upstairs when I heard a commotion downstairs. I came down to see what had happened. Seems that Sis started to sit down on the den couch, when she saw what she thought was a leaf with a stem. She picked it up and....egad!!...it was a flattened dried mouse! Hubbie bravely took it from her and tossed it in the trash. Sis immediately rushed to the bathroom to wash her hands repeatedly. We speculate that one of the cats must have found the mouse somewhere in the sun room, where poison is set out, and seeing it as a prize, brought it in and placed it on the couch. Just thinking about picking that mouse up gave me a creepy feeling, and made me want to wash my hands.
Mother felt much better this morning. She said she went to bed as soon as she got home last night (around 8 p.m.) and slept soundly until around 5 a.m., her usual time to rise.
We didn't accomplish anything for the rest of the morning. After a lunch of the leftovers from Saturday, Hubbie and I ran a couple of errands...to a grocery store to pick up cottage cheese for making a recipe of lasagna for supper, and to the WDCS for a few other grocery items. As we left the WDCS, we were greeted by a cold wind and blowing cold rain...felt like winter again! When is spring ever going to arrive?
At home, Mother and Sis put together the lasagna, and then continued working on the jigsaw puzzle, while I read the local newspaper, and Hubbie played on the office computer.
The lasagna, served with French style green beans, tomatoes topped with cottage cheese, and slices of French bread, was very good.
Tonight, I was supposed to meet with my Literacy Council student, but thirty minutes before the appointed hour, the director of the council called to say the student had spoken with the translator and said she was going to stop classes right now, because there is too much stress in her life. So I will meet with the director soon to see if there is another student I can tutor.
This evening after supper, Mother and Sis finished the jigsaw puzzle, while Hubbie and I watched TV, including the NCAA basketball championship between Butler and UConn, which UConn handily won.
Funny: at one point today I was upstairs when I heard a commotion downstairs. I came down to see what had happened. Seems that Sis started to sit down on the den couch, when she saw what she thought was a leaf with a stem. She picked it up and....egad!!...it was a flattened dried mouse! Hubbie bravely took it from her and tossed it in the trash. Sis immediately rushed to the bathroom to wash her hands repeatedly. We speculate that one of the cats must have found the mouse somewhere in the sun room, where poison is set out, and seeing it as a prize, brought it in and placed it on the couch. Just thinking about picking that mouse up gave me a creepy feeling, and made me want to wash my hands.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Sunday, April 3
Up at 7 a.m. on this beautiful sunny morning, and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. Mother and Sis came over mid-morning and started a jigsaw puzzle, while I programmed the DVR for the week's programs and shows, washed a couple of loads of cloths, and got together a lunch of leftovers from yesterday.
After lunch, Mother and Sis continued with their jigsaw puzzle, while I played on my office computer and typed a recipe for my version of baked beans, sending a copy to Daughter-in-Law, who asked for it yesterday, and printing a copy for Sis.
While Great-Niece was here, she questioned how we were all related. We were able to easily tell her that Mother is her great-grandmother by marriage to my father, and that Sis and I are her great-aunts. But we were sort of stumped on how she and Daughter and Great-Grandson are related. This morning, I found a website with a chart that is simple to follow, and found that she and Daughter are first cousins once removed, and she and Great-Grandson are second cousins once removed.
Then I sat down with Hubbie to watch a movie from the DVR..."Closed for Winter," a 2011 film about a young woman in Australia who, after twenty years, is still haunted by the disappearance of her sister when they were children.
Later, Sis went to Mother's house to do some paperwork related to her job. Mother continued with the jigsaw puzzle. Hubbie worked in the yard. And I baked another cake, since there were only two portions left from yesterday's pineapple upside down cake (this is a favorite and disappears fast). Today, I baked a cinnamon swirl cake, substituting egg whites for whole eggs, and applesauce for butter.
None of us was very hungry for supper, so Sis and Hubbie had sandwiches, I had a bowl of cereal with toast, and Mother had a helping of the cinnamon swirl cake with coffee.
Afterward, Mother continued on the jigsaw puzzle, while Sis worked on her laptop, and Hubbie and I watched TV. Around 7:30, Mother and Sis went to Mother's house. Mother said she was ready for bed. She's not feeling very well, and said she thought she'd eaten too much the last few days and is having tummy troubles. Sis will keep a close watch on her tonight.
After lunch, Mother and Sis continued with their jigsaw puzzle, while I played on my office computer and typed a recipe for my version of baked beans, sending a copy to Daughter-in-Law, who asked for it yesterday, and printing a copy for Sis.
While Great-Niece was here, she questioned how we were all related. We were able to easily tell her that Mother is her great-grandmother by marriage to my father, and that Sis and I are her great-aunts. But we were sort of stumped on how she and Daughter and Great-Grandson are related. This morning, I found a website with a chart that is simple to follow, and found that she and Daughter are first cousins once removed, and she and Great-Grandson are second cousins once removed.
Then I sat down with Hubbie to watch a movie from the DVR..."Closed for Winter," a 2011 film about a young woman in Australia who, after twenty years, is still haunted by the disappearance of her sister when they were children.
Later, Sis went to Mother's house to do some paperwork related to her job. Mother continued with the jigsaw puzzle. Hubbie worked in the yard. And I baked another cake, since there were only two portions left from yesterday's pineapple upside down cake (this is a favorite and disappears fast). Today, I baked a cinnamon swirl cake, substituting egg whites for whole eggs, and applesauce for butter.
None of us was very hungry for supper, so Sis and Hubbie had sandwiches, I had a bowl of cereal with toast, and Mother had a helping of the cinnamon swirl cake with coffee.
Afterward, Mother continued on the jigsaw puzzle, while Sis worked on her laptop, and Hubbie and I watched TV. Around 7:30, Mother and Sis went to Mother's house. Mother said she was ready for bed. She's not feeling very well, and said she thought she'd eaten too much the last few days and is having tummy troubles. Sis will keep a close watch on her tonight.
Saturday, April 2
Got up a little after 6 a.m. this morning, so I could make a pineapple upside down cake for lunch. After I baked the cake, I got ready for the day and then Mother and I continued kitchen-duty until Son and Daughter-in-Law arrived later.
Their primary reason for visiting today was to wash the windows at Mother's house. They have been doing this every spring for the past several years. We were lucky that we caught a nice sunny, reasonably warm day, after several days of rainy, cold weather.
Around 11:30, Mother and I fried chicken in a couple of electric skillets, and I put the baked beans into the oven to heat. We were ready to sit down to lunch by noon. We had hoped that Daughter, Sis, Great-Grandson, and Great-Niece would be able to make it for lunch, but they didn't arrive until around 3 p.m.
The five of us enjoyed the chicken, potato salad and macaroni salad, baked beans, and hydroponic tomatoes. But we waited until the rest of the family arrived before we served the cake.
When they came, we immediately donned birthday hats, lit the candles on the cake, and celebrated Shiz Tzu's seventeenth birthday with snapshots. Shih Tzu didn't care, of course, but she did enjoy an earlier lunch of a portion of the fried chicken.
After the late arrivals had time to enjoy their meal, we served the cake. We spent the rest of the afternoon visiting, until Son and Daughter-in-Law had to leave around 4 p.m. Daughter, Great-Grandson, and Great-Niece stayed until about 8 p.m.
It was a good day. This is the first time Mother and I had a chance to meet Great-Niece, since we and my late brother's family had lost touch until we found each other again on a social networking site. We all just seemed to get busy with our own lives and none of us crossed paths until recently.
Mother and Sis went to Mother's house soon after Daughter left, and Hubbie and I went to bed shortly after the 10 p.m. news.
Their primary reason for visiting today was to wash the windows at Mother's house. They have been doing this every spring for the past several years. We were lucky that we caught a nice sunny, reasonably warm day, after several days of rainy, cold weather.
Around 11:30, Mother and I fried chicken in a couple of electric skillets, and I put the baked beans into the oven to heat. We were ready to sit down to lunch by noon. We had hoped that Daughter, Sis, Great-Grandson, and Great-Niece would be able to make it for lunch, but they didn't arrive until around 3 p.m.
The five of us enjoyed the chicken, potato salad and macaroni salad, baked beans, and hydroponic tomatoes. But we waited until the rest of the family arrived before we served the cake.
When they came, we immediately donned birthday hats, lit the candles on the cake, and celebrated Shiz Tzu's seventeenth birthday with snapshots. Shih Tzu didn't care, of course, but she did enjoy an earlier lunch of a portion of the fried chicken.
After the late arrivals had time to enjoy their meal, we served the cake. We spent the rest of the afternoon visiting, until Son and Daughter-in-Law had to leave around 4 p.m. Daughter, Great-Grandson, and Great-Niece stayed until about 8 p.m.
It was a good day. This is the first time Mother and I had a chance to meet Great-Niece, since we and my late brother's family had lost touch until we found each other again on a social networking site. We all just seemed to get busy with our own lives and none of us crossed paths until recently.
Mother and Sis went to Mother's house soon after Daughter left, and Hubbie and I went to bed shortly after the 10 p.m. news.
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