so today...

 I went to the pool.  The guy who runs our class lost his wife to cancer last year.  Joan used to conduct the class, he picked it up when she passed away.  She was really into crafts.  She knit and quilted and sewed, they used to got to craft shows and set up a booth, sell things.  He was left with the task of clearing out her supplies.  Most of it he donated to a sewing group.  He asked me if I wanted some hula hoops, sure I did!  He brought them today, I think there are ten of them.  I think the grandkids will have fun with them.  

It started raining while I was in the pool, so it was damp and chilly.  I still went to the Mennonite store/greenhouse. I bought a few jars of local honey for birthday gifts, and some pink begonias and alyssum, and planted them together in some cute little pots I had gotten at Target.  I didn't realize the pots would be so small, but oh well.  

Home....I got my soil and pots and plants and set up on the deck with a nice after-pool coffee, and dang it, it started to rain again!

So, I did what anyone would do:  I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies.

Camille made a big bowl of buttercream frosting for her cake decorating activity tonight.  

I made it back out to the deck and got those flowers potted, it's sunny again.  

We didn't eat our rotisserie chicken yet, and there are some leftovers from last night's amazing Asian salad bowls, so I won't be cooking dinner.  I had some pepperoni and rosemary crackers a bit ago, so I'm not very hungry anyway.  

We stayed up late and watched an episode of Downton Abbey, now it's Saturday.  Some of the kids and grandkids are coming over today, and I'm feeling blessed.  They are so good to me.  I didn't realize until yesterday that they would be coming for lunch and dinner, so I wasn't prepared for lunch.  Some are bringing things, but I had to fight the urge to take an extra trip to the store.  We live out a bit, and gas is getting pricier, so I didn't go.  I have a new loaf of bread and lots of kinds of peanut butter and jam, as well as a few packages of turkey lunch meat that isn't opened yet, and pepperoni, cheese, crackers.  We'll survive.  I would have gotten chips and maybe a watermelon, but oh well.  

Camillle backed some of the most beautiful molasses cookies, I tasted one bite of one, and oh dear, bakery goodness.  Then I made chocolate chip cookies yesterday, some with the bigger cookie scoop so they're nice and big...well, I packaged up four of the best of each cookies for Nate for his birthday, and put them aside, well, within reach of one Sunny Sunshine, who pigged them all down.  She's lying here with her had on her paws all innocent.  Her kibble is sitting there uneaten in her bowl, she's just not hungry this morning.  (She did this this morning, Paul left to go do some work before I got out of the shower....)

Anyway.  It's frustrating because cookies are so bad for her, but also they were big cookies and not so many of them, dang it.  I underestimated her, didn't think she would go nosing around in that bag.  

So we got the brakes done on my car, then the red car that Charlotte drives, then Paul's truck...ca-ching.  Well, after the brakes were done on the truck, the mechanic was doing an inspection, and lo and behold, the frame has a hole in it.  His opinion:  not fixable.  So the NY state temporary inspection runs out in another nine days, and we can't drive it anymore.  Just like that.  It's probably not worth anything to trade in, either.  The other truck he was going to buy a few months ago was sold, and trucks are un-goshly expensive right now.  

It's always something, isn't it?  For everyone, not just us.  I'm not complaining, it's just how it is.  We get to choose if we're going to let it all wear us down and make us miserable, or if we're going to acknowledge that God weighs and measures everything for our very best, therefore why not be thankful?  Each one everyone of us will stand before Him someday, and we won't be taking any of this stuff with us.  There's an illusion of earthly comfort that clouds our judgement, fools us into thinking that having things is the most important thing.  I do like my camper and my comfy chair, and am thankful for them, ha.  I enjoy life immensely.  :). 

Anyway.  You have a good day!