Mothers Day 2009
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grnvixenWas really nice :).
Ordered flowers last week for both my mom and Himself's. My mom likes yellow roses so a budvase with two (a couple, awww) is our tradition, as is an arrangement of daisies for my MiL. Daisies are her favorite and I have a great florist who does wonders with them.
Himself had to take off early for OKRF this week so the quiet weekend started thursday night. Cut for length.....
Friday evening I started the spreaditouteverywherecauseitsjustmeandtheelfintheattic project and actually managed to get a lot of it done (extrapolating new free-form embroidery designs from 16C and 17C surviving examples. Aren't you happy you asked :)? ).
Puttered around with these saturday morning while enjoying coffee on the deck. Just a bit nippy but made the warm coffee all the more enjoyable. The birds were out in force and I saw the brown thrasher (I think she's nesting in the juniper tree in back this year) some wrens, the cardinal, the downey woodpecker and a pair of goldfinches. The male is kind of hard to miss (BRIGHT yellow, DUH) but the female is harder to spot so I almost missed her. I'm glad my regular feeding program keeps these hanging around.
Took my mother for Dim Sum on saturday for mother's day. We did this last year and she really enjoyed it, first time she had tried it, but she had only been able to get back for more once since then. Took the housemate too as it is more fun with more people. Mother still could not talk us into trying the turnip cake however :). She did try the shark fin soup, had wanted a half a bowl, just to taste it, but of course they needed to serve a whole one. I had a taste and then she finished the whole thing, which pretty much filled her up :).
She had a little time so we took her to the bead store in downtown Lenexa and a quick stop at a Hallmark store before she needed to head off to meet someone. She has really picked up a lot of her old social threads since moving back here to town. She has also decided she is going to volunteer a couple of days a week at a place she did the same thing at about 40 years ago when we lived in town. I do find it interesting that she has made this decision on the heels of my sister's decision to take early retirement and spend about 6 months at home doing nothing before doing part-time work. This is the sister Mother is living with now. Who was out of the house all day when mother moved in. CS was worried about being home with mother all day, hey, Mother wasn't planning on you being home either when she moved in :)!!! Now that mother's schedule seems to have settled down I think I need to setup some regular dinners with her....
Rest of saturday was more bead shopping with the housemate, back home for bit of a rest, then we both worked with our respective 'vegetation'. She has a bunch of potted plants (included 3 gingko trees she has grown from seed), I'm trying to get my herb garden back in shape. I also got the begonia's potted that I like to have around the base of the deck for a little color in the summer. Herb garden got a little cleaning up, along with some of the volunteers in the side fences and the rose bush. The rose bush fought back, just look at my arms! Nice to be out in the great weather saturday, sure helped me sleep pretty well.
Sunday I got up and went to the Y to swim. It was a little quieter than usual, probably because of M-Day. To chilly and damp to enjoy the deck so I ran errands, caught up on the groceries and started laundry. Nice day to just get a bunch of puttering done.
Oh yeah, the housemate and I went to see Star Trek sunday :). Cut just in case of spoilers... I liked it! I admit I went into it a bit skeptical, I'd seen the ads and could tell everyone was going to be there from the start and come on, you don't all start out straight from the academy in the same jobs we found you in during the original series. I'm a trekker from way back, started watching in the middle of the first season of the original series, first run. I was active in local fandom, did some conventions. I have a lot of fond memories. So, I was braced for a major change in the ST universe and anticipating not being all that happy with it. Well, yeah, it's there, but Abrams made it work, really really well too. He saluted a lot of Trek favorites which, if everything else hadn't worked out so well could have made this one bad reunion movie but as I said, It Worked. I liked it so well I wouldn't mind seeing it again in the theater, and this is the first movie I've felt that way about in a long time. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the original show, this movie honors it, and then brings it forward ready for fresh adventures. Haven't felt this hopefuly about that for ST in awhile.
To Do list:
-more work on the free-form patterns, need to prep them for Lilies. Add some new BW fill-patterns if I have time. Part of this will involve stitching examples.
-still trying to work out the window treatment in the living room. It's been over a year now. First plan was for roman shades now, not so sure....oh, Hi dear :).
-speaking of Lilies; have the list for OM, need to check layout and contact folks with a few questions.
-need to find more dry time to work in the yard, still some trimming and cleanup to do.
That should keep me busy for awhile!
Ordered flowers last week for both my mom and Himself's. My mom likes yellow roses so a budvase with two (a couple, awww) is our tradition, as is an arrangement of daisies for my MiL. Daisies are her favorite and I have a great florist who does wonders with them.
Himself had to take off early for OKRF this week so the quiet weekend started thursday night. Cut for length.....
Friday evening I started the spreaditouteverywherecauseitsjustmeandtheelfintheattic project and actually managed to get a lot of it done (extrapolating new free-form embroidery designs from 16C and 17C surviving examples. Aren't you happy you asked :)? ).
Puttered around with these saturday morning while enjoying coffee on the deck. Just a bit nippy but made the warm coffee all the more enjoyable. The birds were out in force and I saw the brown thrasher (I think she's nesting in the juniper tree in back this year) some wrens, the cardinal, the downey woodpecker and a pair of goldfinches. The male is kind of hard to miss (BRIGHT yellow, DUH) but the female is harder to spot so I almost missed her. I'm glad my regular feeding program keeps these hanging around.
Took my mother for Dim Sum on saturday for mother's day. We did this last year and she really enjoyed it, first time she had tried it, but she had only been able to get back for more once since then. Took the housemate too as it is more fun with more people. Mother still could not talk us into trying the turnip cake however :). She did try the shark fin soup, had wanted a half a bowl, just to taste it, but of course they needed to serve a whole one. I had a taste and then she finished the whole thing, which pretty much filled her up :).
She had a little time so we took her to the bead store in downtown Lenexa and a quick stop at a Hallmark store before she needed to head off to meet someone. She has really picked up a lot of her old social threads since moving back here to town. She has also decided she is going to volunteer a couple of days a week at a place she did the same thing at about 40 years ago when we lived in town. I do find it interesting that she has made this decision on the heels of my sister's decision to take early retirement and spend about 6 months at home doing nothing before doing part-time work. This is the sister Mother is living with now. Who was out of the house all day when mother moved in. CS was worried about being home with mother all day, hey, Mother wasn't planning on you being home either when she moved in :)!!! Now that mother's schedule seems to have settled down I think I need to setup some regular dinners with her....
Rest of saturday was more bead shopping with the housemate, back home for bit of a rest, then we both worked with our respective 'vegetation'. She has a bunch of potted plants (included 3 gingko trees she has grown from seed), I'm trying to get my herb garden back in shape. I also got the begonia's potted that I like to have around the base of the deck for a little color in the summer. Herb garden got a little cleaning up, along with some of the volunteers in the side fences and the rose bush. The rose bush fought back, just look at my arms! Nice to be out in the great weather saturday, sure helped me sleep pretty well.
Sunday I got up and went to the Y to swim. It was a little quieter than usual, probably because of M-Day. To chilly and damp to enjoy the deck so I ran errands, caught up on the groceries and started laundry. Nice day to just get a bunch of puttering done.
Oh yeah, the housemate and I went to see Star Trek sunday :). Cut just in case of spoilers... I liked it! I admit I went into it a bit skeptical, I'd seen the ads and could tell everyone was going to be there from the start and come on, you don't all start out straight from the academy in the same jobs we found you in during the original series. I'm a trekker from way back, started watching in the middle of the first season of the original series, first run. I was active in local fandom, did some conventions. I have a lot of fond memories. So, I was braced for a major change in the ST universe and anticipating not being all that happy with it. Well, yeah, it's there, but Abrams made it work, really really well too. He saluted a lot of Trek favorites which, if everything else hadn't worked out so well could have made this one bad reunion movie but as I said, It Worked. I liked it so well I wouldn't mind seeing it again in the theater, and this is the first movie I've felt that way about in a long time. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the original show, this movie honors it, and then brings it forward ready for fresh adventures. Haven't felt this hopefuly about that for ST in awhile.
To Do list:
-more work on the free-form patterns, need to prep them for Lilies. Add some new BW fill-patterns if I have time. Part of this will involve stitching examples.
-still trying to work out the window treatment in the living room. It's been over a year now. First plan was for roman shades now, not so sure....oh, Hi dear :).
-speaking of Lilies; have the list for OM, need to check layout and contact folks with a few questions.
-need to find more dry time to work in the yard, still some trimming and cleanup to do.
That should keep me busy for awhile!
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Date: 2009-05-11 08:14 pm (UTC)Great that your mom is getting out there - my mother is a busybee too, but Himself's folks just sit home way too much and I worry about them...
Ah, War and Ren Faire!
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Date: 2009-05-11 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-12 01:22 pm (UTC)I'm finding a lot of snails..........