This sign is on the stairwell at my hairdressers salon/home. It made me smile and I hope you smile, too.
Before the tulips bloom fully here in Washington the daffodils make us smile.
Sometimes a different color tulip gets in the mix and the daffodils try to share the glory with the tulips…
Hope your weekend is off to a good start. If the weather cooperates I’ll be mowing the lawn and Dear will be doing some painting. What are your plans?
By A.E. Stallings
Nothing deep to share just these beautiful roses we picked up at Trader Joe’s yesterday for $4.99. Why walk away without buying them? And…
…have you ever seen a Brussels sprouts Stalk? It was $2.99 at Trader Joe’s. I just had to buy it. Of course Dear and I enjoy Brussels sprouts more than most people do. It’s another one of those tastes I’ve acquired in my adult years. So I think these are on the menu for today along with some Lamb Shanks and mashed potatoes.
It’s a Cupcake Vase that comes in a few different colors.
It was fun to fill it with these white and yellow flowers. It’s spill resistant and non-breakable. You squeeze the top to open it up. It feels like those silicone cooking cups.
I bought this at Rust and Ruffles on 1st Street in Snohomish, Washington. The packaging says to “Enjoy decorating your 100% fat free Floral Cupcake.
Hope your week is going well. Wednesday is Katie’s final wedding dress fitting so we’ll need to find a spot to store the dress until the wedding day in this old house. Hmmmm…
~Charles Dickens
That really describes Wednesday. It was extreme in contrasts. We will see what Thursday holds for us.
I need to get a smog check on one of our cars and I hope to get some laundry done now that the washer and dryer is in it’s new location and all hooked up and vented. What does your day hold?
I’ll be joining Kathleen at Cuisine Kathleen for her St. Patrick’s Day Party on March 15th. I’m partying all month anyway since this is my birthday month. Actually, I’m partying all year because I’m turning the epic age of 60 in 2011!
In the meantime…
Lord willing this is what I’ll be doing today…
This morning I’ll be moving like a Latin dance queen at Zumba. There are no mirrors so I can humor myself in thinking that I’ve got the moves. What’s important is that my heart is pumping and I’m burning some calories.
Late morning Katie and I are headed to Crate and Barrel for some light shopping.
At 1:00 we have Katie’s 3rd wedding dress fitting for her alterations. Today is going to be fun because Patty Forte Linna is joining us. She’s an artist and we’ve commissioned her to do a wedding painting. This appointment will be animated for sure!
That will be enough excitement for one day!
What are you doing today?
Lavender and Clement Robinson
(Handefull of Pleasant Delites, 1584)
Lavender is for lovers true,
Which evermore be faine;
Desiring always for to have
Some pleasure for their paine:
And when that they obtained have
The love that they require,
Then have they all their perfect joie,
And quenched is the fire.
Next weekend is the Lavender Festival in Sequim on the Kitsap Penninsula. I’m thinking about going and checking out the fields early on Friday with hopes of taking our summer visitors there the week after the festival. I’ve never been and would like to know what to expect before I haul a car full of visitors over there. I’d also like to inquire about how long the fields are full before they are cut back.
I started with a Sarah Bernhardt and I have been bitten! I want more Peonies in my yard. I’ll be on the lookout when the time is right to plant some more.
On Sunday I bought a hummingbird feeder. My first of those, too. I want to set it somewhere out my computer window because a sweet hummingbird comes to visit everyday.
My neighbor found Mr. and Mrs. Ducks nest. It’s in one of their planters. There are 8 eggs in the nest. Mrs. Duck was sitting on the eggs when the neighbor showed me the spot. So soon we’ll see some little ducklings. I wonder how soon….
My week is thankfully starting slow but will move into hyper-mode soon.
Dear comes home tomorrow from a 6 day business trip to Chicago, yippee!
World Cup begins on Friday! No…really people, do you understand the magnitude of that for this soccer fan?!
Friday night my daughter’s boyfriend arrives for an 8 day visit before he heads off to bootcamp.
On Saturday after we watch the U.S.A./England World Cup game we head to Bowman Bay for a 3 hour kayak tour.
On Sunday my daughter will be walking in her graduation ceremony from the University of Washington!
Life is rich!
So for now I’m just letting this Sarah Bernhardt Peony intoxicate me with it’s fragrance.
James 1:17
“Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.”
Thanks for stopping by and blessings on your week.
Last Saturday my daughter and I were in the Los Angeles area and we met some family members at Descanso Gardens in La Canada. It was a beautiful day in Southern California and not too hot. Please visit Susan at a Southern DayDreamer to see more of the great outdoors.
Our Daughter Katie
My niece Melissa, Katie and my sister Kathy
Niece Melissa and daughter Katie
My niece Michelle with her husband Ryan
Their son Jackson
Their daughter Avery
My sister Kathy and me
Kathy with her granddaughter Avery
Hope you enjoyed Descanso Gardens and I recommend a visit when you are in the Los Angeles area. I think March is one of the prettiest months there or early April.
I do believe the pink ones are my favorite. Which are your favorite?
