Resting on the weekend

This was a very pleasant weekend. I didn’t have anything that I had to do. I worked in the garden; I put up pickles and tomatoes, and have my sister, my friend Wendy and their kids over for dinner Saturday. We ended up with some extra kids, but we usually do, no bug deal.

After dinner Danna, Wendy and I played some dominoes while the kids ran around outside and played. There were 4 girls and 2 boys from 10 years old to 14. As is the usual case, the boys and girls seem to group themselves together and then proceed to pick at each other. The girls decided they needed a force field and ended up sitting in Wendy’s car while the boys made faces in the window and blew bubbles at the car. I can’t explain it, I just report it.

Of course the girls had to whine and complain about being bothered by the boys so we told the boys to get away from the car and leave the girls alone. Their answer to this was to move a couple of feet away and continue to make faces and blow bubbles. Again, I can’t explain it.

Eventually the girls got tired of sitting in the car and decided to go play in the field behind my house, and they let the boys go too. Before too long they are running in out showing us what they’ve found and reporting each others words and actions. Alright, they were tattling.

Oh yeah, did I mention that Rusty, my sisters big red dog is there too? Running around chasing the kids and generally being in the big middle of everything. One of Rusty’s favorite things is to run out one door, go all the way around the house and in the other door. It’s enough to make you dizzy. Saturday he was doing is typically circuit around the through the house, and all of a sudden there’s another dog with him. A brown and white dog we have never seen before. A really friendly guy who was really enjoying Rusty and the kids. After about 20 or so loops through the house and some wrestling on the front lawn he disappeared as quickly as he arrived. I think I will call him the Lone Ranger.

I guess it’s just another day in an everyday life.

P.S. I won at domineos!! Hey me!!

Tired, Blazing Saddles & a poor woman's Med cruise

Today is Thursday, but it’s like a Friday for me because I’m off tomorrow. Of course I will be working; it just won’t be the kind of work I get paid for. My list of errands is getting longer and longer.

This has been a quick and busy week, so much going on at work and at home. I had Walking Buddies Monday after work, a recital to attend Tuesday night, Wednesday evening I helped my son make a flyer for an event he is organizing, and tonight is the neighborhood meeting. The days and evenings have been full this week!

I felt so bad about not getting a box together for my adopted soldier that I went online and order him a cooling scarf and a sand scarf from the Soldiers’ Angels Store, and a gift box from Hickory Farms. He’ll love it but I feel like I took the easy way out, which I did. There won’t be a personal touch to either box, other than the notes. Of course being so busy I’m not sure I could have put much personal touch into anything.

My three closest friends, My Peeps, have all had equally hard weeks. I know they’re tired as well. In honor of us needing a break to just relax, I sent them an email with a link to YouTube for Madeline Kane’s performance in Blazing Saddles, as Lily von Stuchpp singing “I’m Tired” and inviting them to my patio tomorrow evening. We can let the kids run wild in the field, let them roast hot dogs and marshmallows, while we sit and watch and sip our adult beverages. This is as close as we’re going to get to our ultimate goal of a Mediterranean cruise anytime soon.

Last weekend I bought a big wooden spool at a garage sale to make a yard table. I decide to leave it as is for awhile and let the kids play on it. I remember when we were kids we had two 55-gallon barrels. We had a lot of fun with those things. We taught ourselves to barrel walk, had races and barrel fights. We also used them as construction material to build our forts, and of course we used them for drums. I anticipate that my wooden spool will ignite similar ideas in the kids. When they get tired of it there will still be time to turn it into a yard table.