Summertime birthdays

It seems like we are always celebrating someone's birthday from the middle of June to the end of July!Our grandson's day starts things! So Friday we all will be having cake and ice cream! If the weather is nice... we'll be out on the deck.

Bob and I headed out to the Post Office this morning... boxes of bears and mice are one their way to St. Louis, Michigan, Florida , Ohio, NY and so on!! I am still so happy that we can do "click and ship"... and then just drop off the boxes. No waiting in line!

Daughter2 ( the teacher one) bought beets at last Saturday's farmers' market... and cooked them today. Somehow she'd never done that before. I guess she always ate mine..lol.  She loves beets as does my grand daughter. I remember how shocked my son-in-law was when he changed Lili's diaper after she had eaten beets here!! Another LOL. You know what beets do...!

 

 

 

Farmer's Market ... KC NO KING march

After forgetting to post yesterday... here's Saturday's..

Bob and I headed out to the Blue Springs Farmers' Market this morning. We should have headed out a little earlier!  I had wanted mini cukes but they were all gone...

But I did find all sorts of things. The fridge is full... tomatoes both small and large are on the kitchen table.. beets are ready to cook. Scones, jelly filled doughnuts cinnamon sweet rolls and farmer's bread look wonderful.

There were loads of people but we didn't run into our daughter and her husband. They were probably on their way to KC's NO KING march downtown.

We are worried for them and even more so after the reports from Minn.

 

LATER... daughter and husband called on their way home from  Kansas City's No King march. KMBC had been posting pictures of all the marches... big or small.. on Facebook. All peaceful.. only one Trump group mentioned... no police no Nat'l Guard.  They got lots of nice comments on their flag and picture takers from the TV stations.

They were exhausted and sunburned... Bob and I were glad to be reassured.

 

Surprise visit

 Our younger daughter came by this morning loaded with goodies from Blue Springs' Bean Counter Cafe! I had just had half a bagel so only had 1/2 of a chocolate croissant... wish I had had more room. The croissant was scrumptious! Bob had an apple turnover... our daughter has a pecan sweet roll!!

She was out doing errands... her husband was at work. Our grandson had just taken off with a friend for a quick trip to St. Louis to visit another friend.

We are a little nervous about our daughter and her husband's  plan for tomorrow's protest march....

 

on a lighter note... another online bear show started this morning. So I am sitting at the computer.  I try and make sure I post when something is sold and remove the PayPal button.. So I will be packing the sold ones up and mailing them on Monday.

Another show after our trip to Cornell  ... it will be the beginning of Sept. 

"Borrowed picture" !

 

       

                                                    He's a FAUX KING JOKE

 

borrowed this from Debby at Life's Funny Like That !  Couldn't resist!! 

My younger daughter is readying herself and her husband for the march at Mill's Park Kansas City on Saturday... The Missouri governor has called up the Missouri National Guard for Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield and wherever!

off to the park for a walk

 We decided that a walk in the park would be a good idea. Both of us need some exercise and today will be a dry one... tomorrow it rains again.

The park has two kids' play areas...and they have been nicely updated since the grands were little. Today someone was checking on the the areas. I thought maybe to see if everything was ok. But no.. she was doing a survey for disability access for Blue Springs Parks and Rec and will be checking all of the city parks. The second area has much more areas for disabled kids... hope they decide to "update" all the parks!

This park has a small lake in the middle and the city dredged it and removed the floating "island" earlier this spring... made the geese happy I bet!

Our grandson's first job .. Hy-Vee's gas station .. is going well. He likes his coworkers, the training and says the register is easy. The only complaint I've heard is from his mother.. no schedule so far. He hears the day before if he is to work. Since he has to be taken and picked up ( not driving yet) that can be a problem for his parents.

His mother - my daughter - and father will be going to the Women's Protest March downtown KC on Saturday  so guess who will be taking our grandson if he has to work.. Right .. Bob and I.

 

Forgot to post this yesterday... 

AT&T fiber optic

 Yesterday we started getting "ready" for AT&T to bring fiber optic into the house. The "cable" will come in from the box out near the street... to the house .. and then into the house and upstairs to our office. Means moving things around...( sigh).

I have an online bear show next weekend  and we don't want to interrupt  wifi etc until afterwards. So AT&T will come next Wed.

So today I started more decluttering ...having the AT&T guy coming is sort of like company..lol I don't envy him having to bring cable in through the garage and then up to the office. Glad he doesn't go though my work room/craft room. 

Currently three large trash bags await a donation drop off run... maybe more today or tomorrow?

My new Wayfair blinds arrived today... supposed to be tomorrow but who complains when delivery is early??

 

 

What a grocery trip

My list in hand I headed out to Price Chopper - one of the grocery stores I frequent. It seems like none of the stores I go to has everything. 

So I parked the car and headed in. One of my needed items was canned mushrooms.. reached up to the highest row and down came two jars of mushrooms hitting me in the face and knocking off my glasses. Luckily no damage to my face or to the glasses. Finishing up and loading everything into the car I realized that a car had parked so close that getting into the driver's seat was going to be a challenge. Managed to seat myself but getting my feet too in took forever !

Getting close to home I came upon a four seater vehicle like a go-cart with a middle schooler at the wheel and three younger passengers. It was in the middle of the road...I don't think they are legal on the road especially driven by one so young! 

It went into my circle and I stopped next to it and mentioned that it was illegal and the driver ( she) shouldn't do it again. Bob says I shouldn't have said anything. I didn't yell..just "please don't do it again".

Groceries all put away...

Little bit later, my daughter called to tell me about a huge wreck ... fire trucks, police, ambulances etc blocking the intersection just outside of my subdivision.... I had just been there .. traffic had been heavy.