Comings and Goings
It's been a few days. The Beef Bourguinon provided two good meals and one lunch. Jim was in heaven. It's on the weekly menu plan for once a month. My simple idea of the menu plan (I actually have 5 weeks of meals) is working really well. It is keeping me on track to make good dinners most every night and planning ahead so I have the right ingredients. I'd gotten really lazy over the last few years and just slap-dashed meals together. Now, tonight for example, we're having fish in foil packets on the grill with a putanesca type salsa. Very delicious.
Mother's Day came and went along with a box of Sherrie's Berries from Jim. So good I really didn't want to share but broke down and let Renee have one. It was a perfect day. Called my Mom and all my kids called me. What more can a Mom ask for? Renee and Tom visited and we spent time at the pool just floating around, chatting and relaxing. We've finally been taking advantage of the beautiful pool complex on these hot afternoons. Three pools and three spas and no one here!
I am winning the battle with the bunnies. My first flower planting got munched by local wabbits so we set the flower pots on risers and replanted. I now have a lovely setting of cosmos, petunias and allysum...pinks and purples. So there, wabbits!
Yesterday we met Brad at our storage and he loaded up two captains chairs from our old van and four boxes of VHS tapes to go to Renee's yard sale on Saturday. Later he messaged me and asked if he could have the chairs for gaming chairs. Absolutely, says I! Wonder how Naomi likes this new addition to her living room :)...I'm happy! One less thing to worry about.
Tomorrow Laura and Steve will be here from Montana and we will have that rare experience of having all our kids and grandkids around us for a few days. We'll be hanging at Renee and Tom's and then having a family party on Saturday. (Tom we will surely miss you).
Life goes on ....

