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... 

 

 

Found this.. how do you feel about it?

 

 

 

                                                                 

I came across this and knew I had to "snip and clip" it....too many gerrymandering of voting districts make this a reality  ( in my opinion)

BUSY...

so far this has been a busy day. We headed off to the newly opened ( of BS two markets) farmer's market where we ran into the younger daughter and her family!! Leaving them so they could go home we bought tomatoes, strawberries, asparagus and a loaf of sourdough bread... we also sampled freebie things at other vendors.We also stopped the Blue Spring City's table where city employees were manning a display board where you could rate what things one was interested in by attaching stickers. 

Too bad we don't have little kids anymore... there were freebie booths where kids could make crafts!!

After the FM we headed off to CVS for Bob's prescriptions, the library for requested books and the grocery store!!

After all that and putting things away it was time to crash a bit.  We will head out for Bob's radio later!!

  We are back.... we hadn't been to the auction pick up place in two years but with the help of a google map we made from here to NKC. I think I could have made the whole trip if the last bit wasn't confusing...LOL. Bob is getting some of his "stuff" ready and we will be heading out again to drop things off  (in a while... Bob is good at procrastinating!)

 forgot to post last night... guess it really was a busy day!

Bob's birthday

 Today Bob turns 85... Our younger daughter will be coming over this evening. Our elder daughter will see him tomorrow. Our grandchildren have called and his brother has texted his good wishes...

I've always teased him about being a May Day baby....

The day has been quiet...I worked on a bear... he spent time on the computer and went out and mowed the back yard...which has led to a recliner nap!!

Tomorrow will be a little busier... Farmer's Market first - the one of Main St. Blue Springs has two markets. Tomorrow will be the first opening for the one we are going to. The other has been open for several Saturdays.

Then we head off for NKC to pick up a vintage ham radio he won on an auction. He justified buying another radio by telling me how cheap it was!! 

Quilting/craft group meeting postponed

Oh well.. it was supposed to be my turn to host the group but one attendee (?) is sick and another wants to stay home with a sick husband. So getting ready will be done again in two weeks.

So finished a green bear... I dyed the fabric a nice middle green. There's another bag of bear parts ( all pinned together) waiting its turn.

Temps have dropped somewhat... at least it's not raining and the ground can dry. We did need the rain but parts of the KC area got so much that there was flooding and water rescues!! I don't know why people drive into places where water is obviously deep especially under bridges. 

Jack

 Jack looks more scruffy/ old man now than he did then. He's around 20... and here is his life story...

Robb, our son, was managing a QT in northern Atlanta when he found a box of kittens behind the store. Only two survived.  A coworker  took one survivor and Robb took the other.

Jack lived a quiet single cat life in Atlanta until Robb was transferred to Tulsa ... where he continued to be the head of the house.

Then Robb was transferred to Belton ( Kansas City) to head the QT Kitchen facility... and decided Jack needed a companion. This was Tigger... a 7 week old orange kitten from Wayside Waifs .

When Robb was killed on I35 both cats moved into our house... a major change for all of us. 

We know Jack is coming to the end of his life. The vet  says he's doing as well as expected and while he sleeps a lot  he  still can tell Tigger off!