Whoops - another week snuck up on me! Last week was a busy one - extra hours at work, hauling grandkids here and there, plus working in the gardens in my spare time. The sales seem to be for things we don't use, so I'm waiting in hopes that the mid-week ones have something worth stocking up on. 90* plus temps have left people a bit on the cranky side, and the full moon seems to have brought out the crazies in force - not just inside our psych unit, but out in the public world as well!
The gardens seem to be doing very well so far - though I'll need to be out watering them tomorrow if it doesn't rain. I also need to set out some pans of water for the bees - if the rotten raccoons will leave them alone and not tip them over!
I did have a good evening on Saturday - the hospital I work for celebrated their anniversary by hosting a very nice party for staff and their families - free food, drinks, sno-cones, kettle corn, face painting, bounce houses, a band, etc... Staff were able to get off unit long enough to grab some supper - and for me to find my family for some quick hugs before finishing my shift. I joined my family after I got off work and we listened to the band and played games for an hour or so until a very excellent fireworks display set to music ended the evening - a selection of music from Star Wars, Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah, and ending with 'God Bless America'. I am so blessed to work where I do - they do not bow to those condemning patriotism or religious beliefs.
Guess I'd better run down and take a couple of shirts out of the washer and hang them to dry - the grandsons are attending 'Super Hero Camp' this week and will be making 'capes' from these t-shirts tomorrow. The neighbor lady was disappointed because I have to work on Friday - she was planning to rope me into helping with tie-dying at Bible School (can't remember their theme this year.) In spite of that, she did promise to pick me up a fish dinner at the Legion benefit dinner being held Friday night; and gave me advance notice of what she's carrying to the Vietnam Vets benefit bake sale on Saturday at the same location - I'll have to get up early to get one of her yummy cinnamon rolls! I have to run in to town tomorrow so will pick her up some half size blue plates with stars on them to use to plate the cinnamon rolls. I can give them to her Wednesday morning after we finish weeding the flower bed under the church sign - the things I get roped into
The gardens seem to be doing very well so far - though I'll need to be out watering them tomorrow if it doesn't rain. I also need to set out some pans of water for the bees - if the rotten raccoons will leave them alone and not tip them over!
I did have a good evening on Saturday - the hospital I work for celebrated their anniversary by hosting a very nice party for staff and their families - free food, drinks, sno-cones, kettle corn, face painting, bounce houses, a band, etc... Staff were able to get off unit long enough to grab some supper - and for me to find my family for some quick hugs before finishing my shift. I joined my family after I got off work and we listened to the band and played games for an hour or so until a very excellent fireworks display set to music ended the evening - a selection of music from Star Wars, Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah, and ending with 'God Bless America'. I am so blessed to work where I do - they do not bow to those condemning patriotism or religious beliefs.
Guess I'd better run down and take a couple of shirts out of the washer and hang them to dry - the grandsons are attending 'Super Hero Camp' this week and will be making 'capes' from these t-shirts tomorrow. The neighbor lady was disappointed because I have to work on Friday - she was planning to rope me into helping with tie-dying at Bible School (can't remember their theme this year.) In spite of that, she did promise to pick me up a fish dinner at the Legion benefit dinner being held Friday night; and gave me advance notice of what she's carrying to the Vietnam Vets benefit bake sale on Saturday at the same location - I'll have to get up early to get one of her yummy cinnamon rolls! I have to run in to town tomorrow so will pick her up some half size blue plates with stars on them to use to plate the cinnamon rolls. I can give them to her Wednesday morning after we finish weeding the flower bed under the church sign - the things I get roped into