Memorial Day, today...

So...,isn't the sun supposed to be shining today - the almost first day of summer?? Thinking of all the folks I have lost in my life...especially Mort, of course. June is definitely not my favorite month, that's for sure!!Oh well...it will pass and I will carry on!

Let's see....what has been going on in the last two Weeks or so? Dian got home from Germany last week....she surely did enjoy her time there and being with her sister....They poked around Germany a bit, went into Amsterdam and took a trip down to the Italian Riviera....sweet!!

Jocelyn will be staying an extra three weeks and won't be home until July 22.....She is doing so well over there....I know she will come home a changed person - and changed for the better!! I am really proud of her!!

Fritz will turn 11 years old some time in June....so I am seriously thinking of throwing him a birthday party down in the park....I started to list the invited dogs and came up with 11!! Now that seems like a major undertaking, doesn't it! Went on-line to see what's available in doggy birthday parties...and...oh my! there is a lot!!!I can get invitations, balloons, birthday hats, table cloths...you name it...Who knew??? Of course the 11 dogs means they all have humans to accompany them....so, of course, the humans need to be considered as far as refreshments are concerned....Have I bitten off more than I can chew????? Stay tuned...I just might do it if I can enlist some help with it....actually the only thing I am worried about is schlepping all the stuff down to the park....Should be fun,huh?! Needless to say, Fritz has made a lot of friends here!!

Guess that's it for today...I'll be back in a couple of weeks.....

This is CRAZY!!!

May is half over, already....what's with that, already??!!

This ancient old body has started to hurt more than I would like......so....the doc sent me for an X-ray which showed a bunch of arthritis (My sister used to call it "arthwrongis") so I guess there's not much I can do about that . So, for now, it will be Tylenol Arthritis for me. Now, I wake up this morning with my left hand/wrist aching....Can't lift anything with it! I tell you....this whole thing sucks the big wienie!!

On a cheerier (?) note, it is raining.....quite hard, actually...my sweet peas have popped through and once it dries out - or at least stops raining - I will go out to thin them and start them on their journey up the trellis...Yesterday was such a glorious day...warm and sunny!!

Once a month a bunch of us go out for dinner together...this month we were going to the Red Lobster....so we piled into a couple of cars and journey down there....Once we got there, they told us about an hour and a half wait.....that surely would not do so we spotted a fish place across the street and went over there...It was wonderful! I had brown sugar,balsamic salmon....yum, yum yum ! I enjoy these outings,,it is pretty much the same folks that go every month...

Also, last week Dian made her way to Germany to be with Jocelyn.... She will be home next Monday - the 23rd. She is having a wonderful time and enjoying meeting a new culture - and, of course, seeing her sister!! They went over to Amsterdam on the train...don't know where it will be next weekend.

Well...it is time for an attitude adjustment here...I will take some more pills and take Fritz out in the rain to do his "thing" Then I am going to attack some "crafty" projects I have going which must remain name-less because they are various gifts...I will be lucky to finish them and when ( notice I didn't say "if") I finish I will take a picture and hopefully by then I will have figured out how to post pictures on this blog!! I did it once - but so long ago I forgot how to do it..... Mercy me!

Here's to your good health and happiness.....Have a good rest of May!!

May Day!!

When I was a little girl, May Day was a big day...always had flowers for our mothers and neighbors..not expensive ones, mind you...just things already growing in our yard. When we were living in Fife I had a friend who exchanged May Day greetings with her only daughter....I think of her every May Day...it must be a bittersweet day for her...her daughter passed away several years ago.

On a cheerier note - I went to visit my cardiologist on Thursday...and he pronounced me extremely healthy for a woman of my age.It must be the 26 pills I take every day!

About a year ago, I volunteered with a woman who I felt was very strange!! So much so, I told my supervisor if I had to work with her any more I would probably quit. I found it very frustrating to be around someone unwilling to help herself - or ask for help..She had had gastric by-pass surgery and had lost over 100 lbs...which is exciting....but she blamed that surgery on anything that happened to be wrong with her at the time...be it sniffles, burping or passing gas....She claimed she did not have money for anything...new clothes, skin removal surgery, or a smallerapartment....and....she had over $10,000 in the bank....I kept telling her that if she spent some of that money on new clothes and/or the surgery she would feel much better. She was afraid of the economic situation in the country....and didn't want to spend it. Well...later on she did get some surgery done on her arms and evidently it did not go well....Well, the upshot of this story is that she passed away last week.....so I went to her funeral (along with some hospital friends) and it was nearly as bizarre as she was. Only one relative there..her brother..., the five of us and a few of her old neighbors. The minister obviously did not know her....He quoted a lot of poetry and a few scriptural passages...There was a woman there playing the harp - not to well, sorry to say....and, of course, no reception afterwards. Glad that is over!!

Dian came down yesterday- along with Brooke - and we had lunch and got "a mani" (me) and pedis - (them) It was fun!!

I wonder where April went....I almost missed it - it was so fast. Next week I see another doctor - this one my primary one. Should be a-okay there too. Just got a call from Jocelyn who is spending this weekend in Spain....how fun!!! Have a good one everyone.....