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The birthday dinner for Grace (mil) at the Speak Easy went nicely. The cobb salad wasn't off my diet, and it tasted pretty good. Grace had chicken cordon bleu. There were seven of us to dinner. A lot of the time was spent discussing preparations for her (4-day) party next weekend.

The day is most beautiful. I got up around 9:00 this morning, this being a holiday, and enjoyed a nice lot of time outside drinking my first cup of coffee and taking lots of photographs, before going back inside to put on a beef roast. Al's got t-bone steaks for us to cook on the grill, this evening, and a pair of russet potatoes. It's been so long since I've had a t-bone, I've almost forgotten what they taste like (besides marvelous).

It's clouded over a little more, now, and there is more of a breeze. Should be a very comfortable day.

Family is going out to supper to celebrate my mother-in-law Grace's 90th birthday, which is today.

At the Speak-Easy (Italian) restaurant...

Wednesday has gone smoothly. Feeling really good!

Feeling much more the thing, today. Aches and pains are pretty much gone, and the antihistamines have helped a lot.

Am wondering why there were four garbage trucks and a city pick-up sitting on our block for over an hour. They finally did pick up the garbage and move on. Huh...

Woke up with a terrific headache, etc., this morning, and my finger, where I banged it against the counter edge, still hurts. Is improving, though. I can make a fist, now.

Sent freshly baked bread and spice cake off to meeting for worship/pot luck in the lakes country, and went back to bed, where I slept off and on until Al got home, just now. The bowl of spiced beans and such that Mary left for me when picking up the bread stuffs made a nice lunch.

Now that Al is home to feed the dogs, I may take my tea downstairs and take a nap where it's nice and cool (and I have a pillow to prop my arm on).

Should I take antihistamine, aspirin, or both, I wonder?

I'm making progress with the sore arm and numb wrist. Pretty much leaving the desktop computers off, except for a few clients, this past week, using the laptop for web and client work, and the net book for my stuff. It's not hurting, and I even enjoyed some weeding in between rain storms.

Once things are really good, I will do some serious thinking about the preventive measures. Thanks!

For the past few months, I've been having some trouble with my right shoulder that seems to be connected with spending too much time on the computer using the mouse/trackball. It's not improving on it's own, so now I am using the desktop computers, as much as possible, only for work. This is, of necessity, curtailing my photo art activities.

As a result, I am making more headway in the sorting/putting away/tossing activities related to the spring flood precautionary moving of basement items into upstairs living room/offices. Working less, and gardening more.

Here are two photos of peonies illuminated only by the camera's flash. It was raining, last night, but I couldn't wait any longer to take them. The weather this spring has devastated the peony blossoms.








It is now afternoon and no rain, but the grass is still wet!

Yes, really! Temperature is in the mid-70s, and there is the sound of raindrops on the gazebo roof. Sunday, but no meeting this morning, and still I was up by 9:30 or so. Egg and pancakes for breakfast, and now I'm doing nothing at all. It looks as though the rain will continue through the evening.



Before Al built the gazebo for me, we used to sit in the utility shed on folding chairs with barely enough room for two chairs and two dogs. We put a splash board up to keep the rain from covering our pants legs with muddy water. Now, the mosquitoes are banned, and I can close the windows on whatever side the rain wants to blow in from.
( reflections )

Speaking of which, it's awfully sleepy in here, and I'm torn between wandering off to my bed to sleep and curling up in the other quilt and sleeping among my puppies on the gazebo floor.

It's been a long day, but I got some nice naps and lots of photographs, and now the laundry is in the dryer. Al and I had a nice supper out. Got some sherbet at the grocery, after, so I am going to read a bit and have a cup of sherbet before bed.

Days during the summer are uncomfortable, but the nights are marvelous--dark and cool with refreshing winds.

Photo from Sunday

JPG Magazine: Among the Hollyhock Vines

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First Peony Blossom of the Year:



Perspectives I:



Perspectives II:

Flash slide show:
http://www.themomentsbetween.net/mypictures/20090612-sky.html

"That Magic Time of Life" - http://xoexohexox.livejournal.com/822050.html

. . . The life span isn't some sequence of events. It's a life. . . .

Today, I found the paper copy of January's Star*Line in the middle of the "to be dealt with" basket, and the uncorrected .PDF for the March issue in the documents folder of one of the desktop computers.


I hate it when stuff goes missing!