National Zoo

We’ve lived in Richmond for 13 years now and had never been to the National Zoo in the beautiful Woodley Park neighborhood in Washington DC. I wanted to go there to get some photography practice, so we went up on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. The weather was perfect and while the park was [...]

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Molas!

My friend and co-worker Sue (who declined to be photographed for this article) spent an extended Memorial Day weekend in Panama with her daughters. I can’t wait to see her pictures because her description of the experience is fascinating.
They stayed in a hotel on an archipelago island. They were the only ones in residence (besides [...]

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Crash!

Well this certainly wasn’t how I was expecting to spend my first free Thursday night in 9 months:

I think my headlight vaporized, because I never saw it in the debris field.
A young woman turned left right in front of me and I couldn’t avoid hitting her. We’re both fine, but I felt bad for her, [...]

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100th post!

I probably should have planned better, should have had a really great post to celebrate #100. But it crept up on me and I only just noticed that I’d posted #99. (Well, at least I didn’t miss it.)

So I don’t have anything great planned but I’m going to tell you about our “staycation” last week. It was John’s birthday week and the weather couldn’t have been better. We’re saving ourselves for a trip to California this summer, so we took last week off to get some household projects done.

The week started out with our church choir’s performance of John Rutter’s “Mass of the Children” on Sunday the 17th. It is an absolutely beautiful choral work, as most, if not all, Rutter pieces are. We’d been working on it since Christmas I think, but it was well worth it. It features adult and children’s choirs, soloists, organ and chamber orchestra. The children were stationed in the balcony, their voices were to be like angels, and angelic and ethereal it was.

John had some yard work planned, including taking out a couple of small trees growing where they shouldn’t have been, plus cleaning up some tree limbs in another bed. I planted 9 daylilies I got from our friend Anne:

Half of them already have flower buds!

My pride and joy, my Ballerina roses, were in full bloom last week:

We performed a long-overdue procedure on our kitchen floor and it was so successful I think I’ll be able to live with the awful thing for a while longer (good thing, since we’re stuck with it for the foreseeable future.)

John got a new GPS from the kids and I for his birthday and he happily played with his new toy for the rest of the week. We ran around town so that he could put it through its paces. Only one thing about it that he’s not really happy with is the bluetooth feature, his iPhone doesn’t work well with it. If there is a new iPhone on the horizon, perhaps it will work better.

We took one day trip to the National Zoo in Washington DC . I’ll go into more detail about it in another post.

And we ate and ate and ate. John signed up for a bunch of local restaurants’ birthday clubs so we had coupons to use up. We went to our new Mimi’s Cafe twice, once to Lone Star, Coldstone. We went to Chili’s for fajitas on the birthday. Wow do they have great chips. We also went to Cheeburger Cheeburger in celebration of a friend’s birthday. We still have Red Robin and Firebird’s coupons left, but I expect they’ll expire before we can get there. So much for my May weigh-in this coming weekend.

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Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday

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#773 of 1,000

OK, so it’s not in the top 10, 100 or 500, but who knew that catching your odometer turning to a milestone number is something that fascinates others besides us?
According to the blog 1000 Awesome Things, this cause for celebration is #773 in their list of awesome things. You can read about it here.
 
We drove [...]

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1866 Quilt

We had dinner last night with new and old friends from church. Everyone’s schedules are so full these days that Wednesday night was the only night we could all get together, we usually do this on weekends.
We had a yummy meal and great conversation and a lot of laughs. I had just learned the other [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday

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