Sort of busy

Our younger daughter has retired from teaching ( with  a pension) . She has been applying for  jobs which would give her medical benefits and yesterday she had an interview! The medical benefits are the important thing.. her pension is enough financially.

Yesterday she had an interview...She stopped by on her way home to fill us in on all the details! Sounded like the interview went well.

The craft quilting group met here in the evening and what with Carolyn's interview and the possibility of one of the other members going on strike ... lots of talking went on!! And munching...

This morning our daughter called to say she's been offered the job!  Hooray!! It has lots of benefits!!

She called just after I got home from having my hair cut... 

Bob had gone to the library while I got my hair cut and came home with a new Ann Cleeves for me and a Sharpe military one for himself. So we read and I worked on a bear...Dinner was leftovers from the quilting craft meeting! 

Nothing going on here...

 Both Bob and I have been keeping ourselves busy with unimportant tasks... plus reading and bear making for me.. Bob working on his vintage radios and his XBox....

We did manage a visit to my podiatrist for the three monthly nails clipping yesterday  and a stop on the way home at the grocery store... whee!

Even tv/streaming hasn't been great though we did enjoy a Shirley Maclaine movie... about 2017 ( Bob says) ... on Netflix and Hulu

 

Thunder and rain all night

 Bob turned on the a/c last night but  then the temperatures dropped! A huge band of rain and thunder showed up on the radar and that's just what we had all night... Evidently we will have more of this for the next day or so....

A little after 10 AM the electricity went out. Bob used his cell phone to report the outage and found the outage covered a large area... BUT about 20 minutes later it came back on. Just meant we had clocks to adjust!! Bob was glad .. he had a dental appointment and I bet it would have been cancelled with no electricity!!

 forgot to publish yesterday...

Watching the wind sweeping the trees

 It's another warm day... currently 83 F... but it is quite windy. The trees outside our computer room window are moving all over.. The weather people are mentioning storms this evening!

I have spent part of the day doing more de-cluttering. Boxes are waiting to be filled and taken to Red Racks and Habitat.

Bob decided to turn on the A/C... 

 

Wonderful weather

Yesterday the temperature reached well over 80 F ! Today it is 87 F so far....so summer clothing is needed  - shorts and  T-shirts.. My ceiling fan is on!!

This morning we headed out for the Blue Springs Farmer's market. We came home with large zucchinis just right for two loaves of zucchini bread, farmer's white bread, sourdough bread and  tiny yellow tomatoes . We stopped at our Neighborhood WalMart on our way home...I had my list and picked up some unexpected things!! LOL Don't think I have even gone grocery shopping and just bought what was on the list!

Hot evening dinner-time and lovely farmer's market bread means tuna fish sandwiches .. both cats will love "tuna juice" - the water in the large can!! They come running the moment the can opener starts!!

Finished another bear... the next show starts June 12... 

Mother's Day... good and bad

 The good part was the best part. We went to a great restaurant in Independence.. Ophelia's for brunch. The food was great...a mimosa hit the spot and coffee filled things in..... BUT after talking to a server we had had before I missed a step , fell and slammed into a wall. Everything is fine just a lump on my head above my ear but couldn't get up. It seemed like millions of other buffet goers wanted to help. I could get onto my knees but beyond that.. no... until Bob brought a chair, weighted it so that I had leverage.

We finished out brunch... spent  time talking and reassuring diners near us that I was fine.

My elder daughter ( a fellow brunch diner) took us home... my other daughter and her husband dropped by with more Mother's Day things and I crashed on my recliner...

The rest of the day was quiet... I did a little work on a pink bear and read.. Bob fiddled on the computer. Dinner was no cooking but sandwiches. Ok by me... didn't feel much like cooking. Lump is going down .

PS Even though I felt so embarrassed lying on the floor... I was  amazed at how many people wanted to help.. 

De-cluttering trip

 We finally managed to take the bags and boxes of de-cluttered items off  to Habitat and Red Racks... my bedroom looks so much emptier!

We also dropped off  un-needed Priority Mail boxes at the PO.. We were happy to hear that the PO would be happy to receive them!! Our two trips made a nice empty area in the attic!!

Yesterday we watched tree trimmers hard at work from our computer room windows... there was a huge machine which was balanced on four feet with a scissor type arm and a worker in a basket cutting down at least one huge tree!!  The smaller branches and limbs were taken away but there is a huge pile of really big stuff on the curb. Entertaining...

Worked on a new bigger pink bear...