Finishing touches on bathroom.

MONDAY: We went to shop in Rochester as I had a Mother's Day gift to exchange.  On the way home it was nice to see several farmers out in the fields turning the ground.  I'm surprised the ground had dried up enough.
After supper, Betsy and I wrapped gift boxes for a wedding shower that we have this weekend.  Nuts, we ran out of shower paper.
TUESDAY:
Yesterday's shopping trip has put me behind a day.  Today I have laundry, computer work and errands downtown.   Some days one feels like Cinderella, wash the dishes, sweep the floor.  Hoa, hoa! 
Our son, David, called and stopped by to help us take the elephant cover off the pool.  Boy, the water is green and dirty, it will take a week to sweep and filter that mess. 


It always looks bad after winter! 



The Rindo girls all went together on this gift.

 I picked up more shower paper while downtown today so Betsy and I could finish wrapping the shower gift.  I cut out hearts on my Cricket machine then Betsy decorated and lettered them.

Bob has put the extension mirror and the door knob protector back in the bathroom. 

WEDNESDAY:
I fell asleep watching the Biggest Loser last night and didn't know who was voted off the show so I had to look it up this morning on computer.  Oh, it was Austin who was voted off. 
All morning I worked on folding clothes and ironing.  We have a few things that just don't drip dry. 
After lunch I went out to help Bob clean the pool.  It was so nice and hot that I came back inside and put on a pair of shorts and sandals.  At last, beautiful weather.  It sure felt good.
THURSDAY:
We wanted to do all our returns today.  Bob had gathered up all the parts that weren't used in the bathroom and we went to Lowe's and Home Depot to get a credit.   We also shopped for towel bars. 
After lunch we went to Sterling Tent to pick up a lawn chair that they were going to cover for us.  They couldn't get the material out of the frame so Bob will see if he can do it.  Back home we loaded up the tile saw and drove to Debbie's to return it.  We had coffee with the girls and visited.  Christanna updated us on the wedding plans she has completed so far.
FRIDAY:
During the morning, I printed some recipes, signed the gift card and ironed my clothes for the shower tomorrow.  It was so hot by noon! 80o!  I told Bob that it's going to be hot in the kitchen to cook.  (Any excuse to get out of cooking!)  So we started to put all the air conditioners in the windows.  I washed windows-inside and out while Bob prepared the frames etc to air conditioners.  We just kept plugging along...living room, Sarah's bedroom, and ours.  Then I washed the sliding door and kitchen windows.  We out did ourselves.  We sat down to watch the History channel and took a nappie.  Now after supper, it's raining, so much for clean windows. 
SATURDAY:
When we got up this morning, a farmer was out in the back field with his tractor and disks turning over the soil.  Now we wonder what crop will go in this year.  What ever it is I hope it holds the dust down as it always ends up on our windows!

Betsy and I drove to the Fire Hall for the shower.  I brought the camera to take pictures for the bride. (Erin)   (Scrap booking ya know)  I  tried to get a photo of everything Erin  had made personally to enhance the shower; plus several of her guests.  


Erin hand painted the wine glasses.

 She had hand painted flowers on wine glasses.  The brides name and shower date was printed on the bottom of the glass.  Very artistic!  There was a chocolate ring from Oliver's in each glass for a favor.


Gift baskets for raffle.

She also had envelopes (for thank you notes) on the table with her return address.  We were to write our address on the envelope and place them in the basket in front of gift baskets that we would like to win.   Everyone wanted the Starbucks basket.
All the recipe cards that we brought went in a basket and the bride selected one at a time to give away the African violet plant on each table.  (Like a door prize)  
Grandma Freida and Grandpa Bill cooked and presented the buffet brunch; which was Egg and ham casserole, french toast casserole, bacon and sausage patties, chicken salad with croissants, salad fixings and a fancy, fresh fruit platter.  Everything was so good.


Erin cutting the carrot cake.

 The carrot cake from Gregory's bakery was excellent. 

 The event was very elegant and we all had a great time.  (Gma Freida & Gpa Bill are very dear friends that we camped with for many years while our kids were growing up.  It is their grandson, Jason, who is getting married.)
 Jason arrived near the end of the shower and he brought a beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers for the bride, bridesmaids and all who had sponsored the shower.  It was such a nice jester.

Jason arrives with flowers!



We left the shower and went shopping at Lowe's for some flowers to plant along the garage wall.  We picked out several perennials-all in purple.  That's a favorite color of mine!!!!   Arriving at home and trying to unload it started raining again!   Give us a break already! 

The pool is clearing up nicely but now with the rain we can't get the patio furniture out.  
So back to the bathroom and maybe get the mirror lights and towel racks up.  That should finish the remodeling completely.  We have used the shower and seem to have so much more room in there.  Nice!
SUNDAY:
Well, the grand kids are starting to come home from college for the summer.   Eric is home and will be returning to his job working for the lawn maintenance company.  Sarah will be home on the 18th for a 10 days before returning to Boston for her 10 week internship at Deloitte Accounting firm.  I'm not sure when Rocky and Alex will be finished. 

During next week we will focus on the pool and patio furniture.  If it stops raining!  They need rain so bad in Texas and California that I wonder why someone doesn't build a water pipe line from The Mississippi River over there.  Perhaps it would prevent the floods.  It couldn't cost more than sending the Endeavor space ship to the moon!  Who does that help?

Wishing you all a good week with lots of excitement and memories!

Golden Gram