May 12th, 2026

Howdy do and what's new?

I guess  the biggest, most recent news  was Mother's Day this past Sunday!  If you are a mom, I  hope you were well celebrated.  If you have a mom, grandmom or mom-figure in your life, I hope you celebrated them!  

I was lauded and applauded thoroughly.  Flowers, cards, texts, phone calls all made my weekend bright and happy!  Tim brought in donuts for breakfast since we all know that Mother's Day donuts have zero fat or calories!!  Tim then went on to tell me that we would do whatever I wanted to do. Geez, what do I want to do?

The only thing I could think of was that I needed a haircut and birdseed.  Tim shook his head and chuckled.  I could do ANYTHING, go ANYWHERE, and that's what I came up with?  Yup, that's all I could think of.  So, off we went, I got a  haircut (I'm  uncertain how I feel about how it turned out frankly, but I really liked the young lady who did the work)  Gosh I'm looking old but then what did I expect?  I'm 72 for heaven's sakes!  Obviously I did NO editing or photo shopping. This is me, it's what I really look like.  It'll  have to do.

Then we headed to Walmart to pick up some birdseed for the feeder outside.  Not because I enjoy shopping at Walmart, I most certainly do not, but because they had a sale.  Pragmatic decision.   Once we got home, I filled the feeder and within about 10 minutes it was packed with birds:  grackles, a wood pecker, a bluejay, some sort of finch and a few others. The kittyboys were in heaven!  Cat TV!

When dinner time approached I got the same question," Where would you like to go for dinner?  I will take you anywhere you want to go."  Hmmm. I gave it some serious thought. What was I in the mood for?   Took me a little bit but eventually I figured it out.  where?  Arby's.  I hadn't eaten there in probably a year? Maybe a little longer?  And for some reason, it just sounded like what I wanted.  I got the headshake again, "Ok if that's what you want".  It was what I wanted.  What can I tell you?  I guess I'm kind of low-rent.  

We ate in the family room while watching one of the Jack Ryan movies, the one with Ben Affleck. Haven't seen that in a long time.  It was a treat!  Followed it up by watching yet another Jack Ryan movie, this time the one with Alex Baldwin.  Frankly, Ben Affleck did a better job as the main character than  Baldwin.  I think Chris Pine did a nice job  as did Harrison Ford but John Krasinski, thus far, has done the best job of portraying him. My humble opinion.  I am open to entertaining your opinion :)

It was a good day.

I appreciated so much the love and care that went into making Mother's Day special for me, but I confess to having some difficulty with the day.  Not sure why.  Maybe because I don't have my own mother or mother-in-law to celebrate anymore?  I always did a pretty good job of pointing the celebration in the direction of someone else. Maybe I just don't know how to be celebrated?  I am awkward and a little weird about it all but I try reallllly hard to act as normal as possible . I fear that my desperate attempt to act "normal" is sort of like a teenager coming home a little drunk and attempting to act "normal" which ends up being the exact opposite of normal.  I hope everyone who showered me with time, attention and affection felt properly thanked. 

ANYHOO,  Mother's Day is over, Father's Day is on the horizon, a little more than a month away so I have plenty of time to obsess over that.  

Let's see what else. Surely there is more news. Oh yeah, I remember now. We now have gutters on our house!  Huzzah!  Tim hired some very nice young men who came and took care of it on Monday and, impressively cleaned up perfectly after themselves. Now I'm excited to have a rain storm so we can see the difference! Hopefully the difference will mean not having a pond in the front courtyard that we have to wade through coming in and out the front door. That would be nice.

Oh!  And on another note, I have new dishtowels!  Perhaps not exciting to you, but I'm overjoyed.  I think in total it was 18 new dish towels (I use a LOT of dishtowels), 3 different types.   There are two kitty ones, 4 botanical ones and 12 of the others. And I will go through them all on a regular basis.  We use them for as napkins, trivets, to set hand washed items on after washing, for wet shoes when we come inside, as place mats occasionally, to set heavy glass vases on to protect the table underneath, etc.  Oh yes, I also dry dishes with them. So I go through many in an average week.  The old ones that were thin and raggedy and, in some instances, a little holey, went into the garage rag pile. Still useful but no longer kitchen pretty.

I reckon that's all the news for today.  

Hope all is well with all of you!

​Hugs all 'round