Lady number ONE.....
Miss Berklee enjoying time at the San Diego beach......
This has been a week of great variety. Sunday afternoon I enjoyed a chilly half hour walk around the park.
A glimpse of blue sky and high flying gaggle of geese....
Later in the day I "undecorated" the tree, disassembled it into 3 parts and hauled them out to the garage where they will lay until grandson Jake favors me with a day of garage cleanup. Having watched the 3 movies of the Lord of the Rings recently I figured reviewing the Hobbit movies would be appropriate on these rainy January evenings. So I did the first one Sunday evening. I may have continued except that I did not own the second one. (Though I do have the third one....something about what was on sale a particular day.)
Now just because one undecorates a Christmas tree on a certain day doesn't mean all those decorations need to be put away the same day. No sirree....(Actually the present moment is late Friday evening and the living room floor is cluttered with boxes, bags, and bins waiting to be filled.)Rainy Monday shopping challenge:
Taking the "Safeway Challenge". Occasionally the local grocery store chain offers a $10 off coupon on one's $50 or more purchase. I like to see how close I can come to $50 including other coupons and not buying what I don't need. Monday was the day. I ended up paying $48 for almost $80 worth of household needs, groceries and a free movie coupon included. Yeah!!
Earlier I tried to return a number of inexpensive decorations to a dollar store. I had the receipt but was unaware of their "exchange only" policy. With these being seasonal items they would honor only half price. Bummer. Now what? I looked around the store and saw 50 % off gift wrap and ornaments. SO.....exchanges even up....enough wrapping paper for the next 3 years.
Needed also to stop at another store to buy the 2nd Hobbit movie...
The drawback to movie watching is that when one is also needing to do computer work, its the computer work that gets slow and sloppy. I had the goal to get the family calendar finished by midnight Wednesday to get a good sale price they had. Rather difficult to keep up the concentration, but progress was made.
Tuesday evening I was invited to visit a dear friend and to have dinner with her. Megan lives somewhat near to me, but driving after dark in the rain is still a challenge for me. The drive there went fine. She lives out of the country but is home several months because of her mom's illness. I enjoyed a warm, friendly evening with meal of mashed potatoes, gravy and yummy pork roast seasoned with fennel. There was only one mishap later when returning home. Following directions was fine. When I got to one of the main streets, the intersection was not well lit, but I turned left like I suppose to. I was glad the traffic was light. It was strange that someone was blaring on his horn. And kept it up. There was an odd arrangement of lights coming towards me on the opposite lane. It was a man on a bike with both the bike and the man's hat having lights. It was at that point that I could see the reason for the long horn blaring....I had turned onto the right lane of 2 lines going the opposite direction. Oops. Doubly glad for the light flow of traffic and the close by intersection to get to the proper lanes.....
Once back home, I was happy to veg in front of the TV and again work on the family calendar.
Wednesday was ladies' out to lunch day. Thirteen of us went to Los Peppe's Mexican restaurant. The decor was colorful and the food tasty. I ordered "polo mole"...chicken pieces in a mildly spicy mole sauce. The mole (mo-lay) contains a bit of chocolate. (I got a little culinary advise from one of the ladies...concerning a location that will soon involve me. Hmmmm??)
I was home for a couple hours. Time to turn on the TV while working on the family calendar.....Wednesday midnight deadline still seemed possible.
Mid-afternoon it was time to visit another dear friend who lives here in Vancouver. Kahana just moved to a place near me. I got to drive in the daylight. After a pleasant visit I returned home about 6 PM. Time for more work on the family calendar.
OOPS.....with the calendar half way programmed (about 6 hours worth) I decided to try out different background patterns. OOPS....after checking a few I decided to keep the one I started with. OOPS....all the pictures, except for a few random ones were GONE...just plain GONE...GONE the enthusiasm and patience....guess I'll forget the midnight finish deadline.
Thursday passed as a "normal" day....water aerobics with the ladies, laundry, clean the bathroom, a bit of renewed work on the calendar....the evening shared at prayer time with three ladies and our pastor.
Friday ended the week on a lovely note....
and
Lady number ONE
Lunch at Olive Garden with granddaughters Angie and Micaela....love these lovely ladies.....
I feel so blessed this week to be loved and liked by all these wonderful Pacific Northwest ladies, especially the younger generation. I feel at home and "family". Thank you, Ladies!!
And that mess in the living room? Maybe tomorrow....And all that rain? It is NOT -15 degrees like they are enduring in northern Wisconsin these days......
This has been a good 6 "ladies' week" days in the life of Grandma G.
"She is clothed in strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue."
(Proverbs 31: 25 & 26)
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