Flowers!

Some photos of the flowers  currently blooming in my garden, including an Easter lily that I planted from an Easter gift a year ago....

Sarah painted me a water color bouquet for Mother's Day this year and I framed it and hung it above a stitched flower bouquet I made for my mother fifty years ago...

I honestly have not much to write about this week.  Monday we visited with our Edward Jones person in the afternoon and savored Baskin Robbins baseball nut ice cream cones next door afterwards.  I remember getting baseball nut ice cream when I was a little girl living in El Paso.  Back then, we called it 31 Flavors and our family would go there now and then.

Tuesday morning I drove to Ballwin, not to visit Emily and family but to check out  the Parkway South High School orchestra room to determine if it was suitable for the civic orchestra rehearsals.  Before Covid, and before I was in the group, the orchestra rehearsed in another Parkway school.  Covid prevented us using any public school building so we had to resort to an old gym in Overland that has horrible acoustics and no percussion equipment.  Usually Steve and I go to the temple on Tuesday mornings but we went in the evening that day.  

Wednesday morning was Happy Hookers and Steve and I attended a funeral for a neighbor that evening.  Thursday we bought groceries, I taught lessons, we dusted off our bikes and took a ride in the evening and watched Cat Ballou afterwards.  What a silly movie!  It was made in the mid-sixties and was a spoof western.  I think Steve was singing the theme song a couple weeks ago so I decided we needed to watch it.  Friday was more lessons in the morning while Steve went to Caliber Collision to get an assessment of the damage done to the Kia (see last week's blog) and to pick up his new continuous glucose monitor.  Since he has started going to an endocrinologist, things have been happening to get his diabetes under better control:  going on Ozempic, using a different insulin, and now this monitor.  Hooray!  We had friends over for dinner and, after they left, we caught the pen-ultimate episode of the Mandelorian.  Saturday we headed to Indiana after I attended a baby shower from 1:00 - 2:30.  We got on the road at 3:30 but dead-stop traffic just outside of Effingham delayed us for over an hour.  We still are not sure if it was construction or an accident but we were surrounded by 18-wheelers going nowhere.  Then, once we hit Indianapolis, another detour slowed our arrival yet again so we didn't pull into Julina's driveway until 10:00 pm EDT!

We awoke to rain this morning and supposedly St. Louis was also supposed to get rain.  I sure hope so.  I am weary of watering.  AND weeding.  I finally tackled the bed behind the garage that was just riddled with bindweed and cleaned it all out and spread mulch.  The last main weeding battle will involve along the western fence.  I will hopefully get that done this coming week and I will post photos of the growing garden for my next blog.  Until then, have a great week!