- I’m finally going to be home this weekend!
- Bill, our dog, finally tested negative today, for heartworms!
- I’ve started being a Mystery Shopper…it’s pretty fun.
- We’re planting flowers and bushes in our backyard. It’s a gradual process.
- Keeping my grandson on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- Watching my grandkids soak up life and new experiences.
- Recently getting to spend time with both sides of the family.
- Just enjoyed a weekend of playing Euchre with my SIL and BIL.
- The piano recital of my students was great!
- Having a day off, with few obligations, and the promise of dinner with my hubby.
I’ve Been Travelling!
I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything for awhile. I’ve been out of state, travelling for three weekends in a row. To say I’m ready to be home for awhile is an understatement! But they were fun weekends.
Three weekends ago, I went to Kansas City to attend my nephew and fiance’s bridal shower. It was on the same day as the Royal Wedding, so that was the theme of the shower. The hostesses had made fascinators for all of us to wear. The shower took place in this fabulous, big ole house in KC. We had a delightful lunch, watched the fiance open gifts, watched a video of the groom’s take on the whole courtship and future, and ate fancy cake. So much fun!!!
On Memorial Weekend, I drove to Missouri to my aunt’s house, for our annual Morrow reunion. My mother was a Morrow, and had three sisters and a brother. I have multiple cousins and second cousins. It’s always so much fun to see everyone and catch up. One of my cousins has wanted, for several years, to have a Pie Day. This year we did it! Every meal was basically pies, pies, and more pies. It was everything from Chicken Pot Pie, to Taco Pie, to Fruit Pies, and everything in-between. What a fun idea!
This past weekend, we drove to Marland, Oklahoma for another nephew’s wedding….this time on my husband’s side of the family. We’ve all had reservations, for years, on whether the groom would ever get married. He finally found a wonderful gal, and I think they will be very happy. Once again, it was fun to catch up with that side of the family.
We stayed in an AirB&B farmhouse, that was just a few miles from the wedding. It was a Centennial Farm….it had been in the family over 100 years. It reminded me of my old farmhouse that I grew up in, in Kansas. After looking at the books in the house, I deducted that this was the home of a Methodist minister. There was also a book on the coffee table, that told the tale of the man who had grown up there. He was a past governor of Oklahoma. Wow! It turned out that yes, the daughter is a Methodist Deaconess, and she has been my daughter-in-law’s Spiritual Advisor for over 10 years. My daughter-in-law is also a Methodist minister. How weird is that?? It was a fun time at this house.
And now….I’m home for a few weekends. Maybe I’ll finish getting things planted in my garden. Maybe I’ll get a few posts written! Maybe I’ll even relax.
What are you doing, now that school is out and the heat has gone berserk??? Any big plans for the summer? Leave me a reply and press like if you enjoyed this post.
Grandma Sherry
WHAT???? The Photinias are gone!
Oh my gosh! The photinias have been cut down and removed. Fungus attacked the leaves, so we had them cut down. They were just cut to the ground, not pulled out by the roots. It has left a major weirdness to our yard. It looks like a tornado hit our backyard. I can see neighbor’s houses that I haven’t seen in years. Sigh.
At first, I thought it was darned ugly. OK….I still do. There’s a lot of work to be done. Then I started thinking about how my shade is gone, and now I have sunlight to work with. I sit in my lawn chair, and try to envision all of the things I can do with a garden that gets sun. I’m still awake at midnight, trying to look for ideas online. We need height variations, and lots of color. My hubby planted three small crepe myrtle trees. The fact is, the ground is full of rocks, just below the surface. Very hard to dig.
I’ve been collecting plants, the last several weeks. Last night, we went to Lowe’s to look at their plants. My husband finally cut me off….he said “you’re just like a kid in the candy store! You can’t buy anything else until you get these planted.” OK…OK…but of course I’m going out of town for Memorial Day weekend. And hey…I still haven’t found any purple cone flowers. I NEED those! I have a vision!
How are all of you doing on your gardens?? Do you grow flowers or veggies, or both?
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A Day at the Science and History Museum
Last week, I took my grandson, Isaac, to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. What a treat!!! He didn’t want to leave. That seems to be the reaction of most of the kids visiting the museum. It is a museum that educates in a fun way, with everything from dinosaurs to the Omni Theater, where you can see movies in a surround type view. There is also the Noble Planetarium, where you view the stars and learn about their stories. 
Though we could have gone outside to dig for dinosaur bones, it was a warm day so we stayed in the building. We spent some time in the Energy exhibit. In this exhibit, Isaac’s favorite part was a big city, that you could push buttons to light up different features. BUT…his big thing was the little train that rain all around the city. He loved the Choo Choo! There was also an area that had a giant truck. The wheels were bigger than him.
Throughout the museum, there was a nice gift shop, a cafe, and an area for older kids to explore and create things. We stayed in the younger kids’ play area. Oh my goodness! It was wonderful. It had a train area, to set up your own train on tracks, a grocery store to shop and buy things, and a really neat hospital area. The hospital area had an ambulance, baby beds and babies, x-rays, and dress-up area. This was very popular because the ambulance had a siren and you could drive it.
Though we came back to these areas several times, the really big draw on this hot day, was playing outside in the water/block building area. Isaac loves to play with water. He was in his glory!
It was a glorious day…then..naptime!
The Spring Gardening Update
It’s time for a garden update. So when do I really, really want to get out and work on my garden???? When it’s a cold, rainy day, and I’m stuck in the house. We’ve had two of those days this past week, and now it’s sunny and 83 degrees. I didn’t want to get out today, because I had other things to do. Truthfully….I’m a major procrastinator!
Yesterday, I did some “invisible gardening”. What??? Yes, I trimmed a little here and there, pulled a big of grass, and planted about a dozen bulbs. No one can tell that I did that, of course, so that’s what I call “invisible gardening”. Hopefully, it will all show up later, in a month or so.
I think the front flower beds are looking better. A few things are starting to bloom. I still need to put some more color in them, but my yellow lantanas are looking good, and my stella d’oros also look good. I can’t wait for my elephant ears to come up!
The back yard is a different kettle of fish. I’ve had some plants, from the nursery, sitting on my patio for quite awhile. They are ready to plant. The ground is not ready. I need to get it all prepared. I have a Secret Garden in the back corner of the yard. Most of these plants will go there. I’ve filled flower pots on the patio. One of the wisterias is starting to really fill out. The other one died over the winter. We thought it might be cursed, but then we found out that the lower vine had been cut. Duh!
The saddest part of our back yard is our photinias. We planted 12 of these when we moved in, about 15 years ago. They’ve grown like trees and shaded the whole back yard. They’ve provided some privacy. Everyone has always liked the lush feel of our backyard.
The photinias have all died this year. They have some kind of fungus. We have someone coming, in another week, to cut them down to the ground. They’ll haul them away. My whole garden sunlight will change. It’s sad, but I’m kind of excited to plant some new flowering shrubs, and have more sunlight to grow things. Hope they don’t have to tear our my rose bush to get to the photinias.
Stay tuned for the next update on the garden.
We will be having a photinia memorial service at the end of next week.