The new tulip and daffodil bulbs we planted in the raised beds are finally showing stems. In the back several more daffodils have bloomed. Soon, those tulips will be showing as well. I love living in a place where you don't have to dig up the bulbs cause it is cold enough here for them to remain in the ground. The little blast of cold temps last night doesn't seem to have caused any damage.
Monday morning found us up and out of the house earlier than usual. We needed to make a much needed and a much rescheduled trip to Sam's. This is the best part of the Plus membership, going before 10:00 am. It seems that we stuck to our shopping list and didn't pick up anything except maybe for a shirt. We were going to make a couple of more errand stops but our chosen route had a huge accident on it and people sat in traffic for two hours.
Tuesday, we celebrated Roy's birthday. Started off the day with a shave and a haircut, two bits. No, just haircuts for both of us. Always a joy to see Tammy and laugh and visit with her. After getting all hair spiffy, we drove over to Burnsville for Roy's birthday lunch. He loves Pig and Grits! He loves their banana pudding so...we needed to go there since he doesn't eat birthday cake. He had the brisket and I had a lunch of sides which included, fried okra, collards, mac and cheese, coleslaw and the afore mentioned banana pudding. What is so ironic is that when we have gone before the parking lot is packed but when go inside tables are available. On Tuesday, the parking lot actually had plenty of close by parking but when we got inside there was a thirty minute wait. Y'all, it was worth the wait. After waddling out the door, we went to downtown Burnsville for a little shopping. Uh, that was for me not so much to celebrate Roy's birthday. Anyway, I think I had the most noticeable "stern" answers to a couple of questions mainly due to the fact, clearing throat, I am of the older ilk. Short, terse, stern responses with not so much patience. She could have been having a bad day or worried about something else, so I chose to say, oops, I must be wrong on the name cause that is not hard for me. Truthfully, that has been for all my life, being bad with names. Then, people more forgiving, now, not so much. Of course Roy is trying to help with clarification but all it is doing is prolonging the time cause I am in the ready to exit mode. The store was hot and heat really affects me, so for the sake of no afib, the exit is becoming more expedient. Whew, finally outside where I waited for a cool blast of wind but nope just warm, humid...to the Mustang and get that AC cranking.
Wednesday morning we went over to Madison County to pick up the large mugs we special ordered. It was an beautiful drive and an exciting adventure driving up a mountain on a gravel road. So glad I had googled up the address and saw that the road was mostly gravel. Didn't know if we would need four wheel drive, thus we drove the truck. What a beautiful sight. Their home is beautiful with a copper colored metal roof. Great little private areas in the yard with benches and arbors and trellises. Two huge rottweilers greeted us at the door. We had a nice visit and such. Her husband's hobbies are wood working and metal work. He is building a shop farther down the mountain that we saw on the view up. We asked if we could take some pictures of the views but we would not include the house. That seems like the polite thing to do. Very gracious in our request and told us of a couple of things to look for on our way down the mountain. Roy and I talked about the land and views as we headed back toward the freeway. I mentioned that it was too bad we didn't know ten years ago of these places that existed, well except for the third house we looked at on top of mountain in Haywood County. Although, we would not know how to live with nature and such back in the day. Don't know that we are that good of knowing now. We do know that we are basically outsource people. We have seen a few deer and turkeys but never a bear on our property. These conversations usually end like this...if we were younger.... Oh well, we are not and we love where we live so all that other is just wishful thinking that isn't very productive.
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Working in earnest on Sunday's lesson. Once again the fine folks at Lifeway skip over the birth of Isaac and go right to Abraham and Isaac on the mountain. So, it feels like one of those many, many times where the background material leading up to this moment needs to be looked at and talked about. Once again we meet Hagar and once again she is in circumstances that are mainly beyond her control but somewhere in the back of her mind she must be remembering "the God who sees." In this case He is the God who hears because He hears the cries of her son as well as her cries out there in the wilderness and desert of Beersheba.
Out of the three Boys, Mr Mo is the least feral of them all. He has taken to sitting beside me in the afternoons or on my lap. He is still the neediest one out of the three. Jealousy plays a huge part in that. Since GMoey's teeth removal, we have found that he likes the squeeze treats in a tube like package. He and Willie love them, the Mr not so much. I try to take opportunities to give them what I have started calling it, squeeze cheese, individually. Sometimes that doesn't work out but it is finding those individual attentions that keep building levels of trust. I don't think I mentioned Cha Nay Nay's quick trip into the house. She got scared right off and was climbing the windows in the kitchen and in the dinning room trying to get out. She hissed her way out the back door. That adventure hasn't affected her need for pets and attention.
Roy got his workout in yesterday afternoon. It was kind of touch and go cause it was a rather coolish day. He and a whole bunch of people had the same idea since he said the gym was really crowded. He wasn't able to get his balance work in. He also made a quick stop in at Publix. This week the bacon we like is BOGO so, he is storing up as many as possible.
The other day, I was looking at FB memories and those stressful and trying times of getting my dad into assisted living to recover from a fall or a stroke. We never got the truth from him cause he told a different story of what happened to my brother. Looking back at what I wrote, now I can see the beginning of the end of our relationship with him. Those were some weeks that I was so tempted to treat him like he had treated me when I was growing up. God provided a way out of that temptation. He snuck in and out of that assisted living place and threw all kinds of fits and arguments. I knew then, he being a narcissist would not have done those arguments in front of people because there wasn't anyway he could redeem what he said to look like a victim. My response was even and not angry...that is the Lord by the way. He lost the argument that day but he found meaner and more evil to pull in just a few weeks.
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Foggy Saturday morning after a chilly Friday with sleet then changing into rain. I wore my favorite beat up sweatshirt that makes me feel all cozy to settle into a day. I worked on the lesson as well as started another Mildred Budge book. I also made tuna fish sandwiches for lunch, something I have not done in a long time. I used to go over to the Fresh Market to get their tuna salad from the deli but when it went up to $12.00 a pound meaning I was paying over $6.00 for a half of pound, it got cut out of the budget. In fact going to The Fresh Market kind of got kicked out of the rotation due to the Publix influence. Yesterday, I cut up dill pickles, more like chopped up dill pickles, a tad of pickle juice and Duke's. My sandwich was delicious.
This morning I added a couple of tea biscuits with my eggs, bacon, and cantaloupe. Used honey from our neighbors bees. Great way to begin the day.
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