well, here I am, having a wonderful day!

Long before HGTV, back when we had three channels of television, on Saturday mornings, there was a show called, I believe, "This Old House". I've heard jokes about it being This Damned Old House, and worse.  They would renovate, and find a problem, and another problem, it was a slow moving show, not like the flashy home improvement shows now.  

Anyway.  Last evening, we drove to the small city to visit Lowe's, which is always fun with Miss Char and Miss Cam.  They really like home improvement stuff.  We went down the lighting aisle, and perused the faucets, and hoped the ones coming in the mail from Walmart are actually nice.  We looked at some flooring, then ventured back to get our p.v.c. bead board.  Welp.  Online, it said there were 15 in stock.  No, there were NONE in stock.  They had the packages of small ones, but none of the eight footers.  

Home, late dinner, still a nice evening.  

This fine morning, the girls went off to work, and I went to a different Lowes by myself.  First, Target, and a stop in Starbucks for a free birthday drink.  The sweet girl who works there accidentally put sweet cream instead of regular cream, so she gave me that one too, which I brought to Kathryn.  Anyway, I wandered around and got some blonde roast iced coffees, confectioner's sugar, butter, sour cream, and a bag of frozen meatballs.  Nothing exciting.  Then to Lowe's for my pickup, this time I made sure they had them by ordering and paying ahead, and going when we got the notification they were ready.  

Then, since I had no eye-rolling teenagers with me, I ventured into Hobby Lobby.  I was looking for some baby shower things for the cake.  That store is too much fun.  I looked at the mirrors, would love new ones for the bathroom, but even with 50% off, ouch!  It was fun to look, but I was mindful of my owie knee, which was killing by the time I got out if there.  I have to be careful, it's SO hard to drive when it's like that.  

But, one more stop, at a local dairy store for two half gallons of ice cream, because hey, it's my birthday.  I know I have hot fudge here at home, and sprinkles, so we may as well have sundaes tonight!

Then, instead of going home, I went to visit Kathryn and went for a swim.

Now...some people are coming over, and Paul is working on the bathroom.  The new faucets came in the mail, and I am pretty pleased.  They are really nice faucets, and sell for more than double, even triple what I paid for them.  So I was actually surprised when the shipped and arrived on time!  

Ah well.  I need to move it move it, the house needs some cleaning up, and here I sit.  Paul picked blackcaps, I'm thinking of making a cobbler...you all have a really nice day!