Mom

Good morning.
Well, it was another beautiful spring day yesterday, but no yard work. Instead, we went to Muskegon to visit my Mom. She's still in the nursing home/rehab center, but has been walking on her healed foot for just over a week. So she was looking forward to getting out of there for a few hours. It was her first time out since she arrived there in mid February. And she's walking pretty good. She thinks they'll let her out near the end of the month. So we went to Red Lobster where she had Tillapia, I had Salmon New Orleans, and Craig had Lobster nachos. All were yummy as usual. Then we needed to go to her apartment building and fill out dozens of forms for her renewal of government rent support. Then to the club, (VFW) for a visit with her friends there she hasn't seen since early Feb. She really enjoyed getting out for a few hours, and when we took her back, she promptly got into bed. She was pretty tired out from all the activity. We visited for a while more, then headed back to Lansing.
Since we had a big lunch, for dinner we just had ham sandwiches with leftover ham from Easter Sunday.
And here's a few more spring pics from the yard....

I love daffodils! They are so cheery in the early spring. As I write this post it's raining. Has been all night, so since it'll be too wet to work in the yard, I think we'll back out the mo-ho, and start getting everything back in it for the up-coming season. I just love spring!

a beautiful day

Good morning,
We had another beautiful day yesterday. Not 70's but upper 60's, sunny and low wind, so spent the entire day working in the yard. Besides deadheading, weeding and trimming, I managed to dig, divide, and pot up 36 plants for my big sale in June. Mostly day lilies. They are just about the only thing 'up' enough to divide. But I have nearly 50 varieties, so I found plenty to divide. Craig did his usual laundry, book work and made us a delicious Easter dinner of ham, scalloped potatoes, scalloped corn, and of course deviled eggs. We almost ate them all before I thought to take a pic.
Now the only reason for the pic is for Garret and the post he did about making deviled eggs. Or should I say about making hard boiled eggs. Yes, there's a ton of different ways to boil and egg, and still, you may not get easily peel-able eggs. So long ago, Craig decided that this would be his method for making hard boiled eggs.....

Buy em that way! Now why didn't someone think of this years ago! It would have saved a lot of people much grief! Yes, look in the upper right corner, they're $2.79 for 10 eggs, but Craig says it's well worth it for not having the hassle. And you have deviled eggs in no time flat!

So that was our day, and it was great! Good weather, good food, and a productive day.

It's over, and just begining

Yes, it's over...... Our Spartans lost last night to Butler. The battered, bruised, injury laden team just didn't have any more to give. But they had a terrific run, and the way Duke dismantled West Virginia, I'm thinking Duke will take it all tomorrow. They didn't play that well against the Spartans and Duke doesn't have all the injuries the Spartans did.
But anyway, thanks for the condolences.
I just got back from cleaning the Salon. Did I mention how much more work it is to clean the Salon since we increased our staff? But that's okay, it's more income too. :-)
And to help cheer me up form last nights game, it's the beginning of spring! And here's some pretty flowers currently blooming in the yard....

Nothing better than a beautiful spring day to wipe away the gloom!

Oh, and a Happy Easter to everyone!

What a beautiful day

Good morning.
After I got home from work yesterday and did that afternoon post, I decided to clean the rubber roof on the mo-ho. Like I said, the weather has been the best! We hit a record hi of 81 on Thursday, and close to a record of 80 on Friday. And since I got out of work early enough, I wanted to make the best of the weather while we had it. (today and tomorrow are to be only in the upper 60's)

And of course, if your a regular reader, you see pics like this every year. It wasn't as dirty this year as in the past. Probably due to the fact I cleaned the roof twice last year instead of just once.

And I post these pics because I want someone to see the results of all my labor! Cause no one on the ground well ever see it! LOL! And if you click on the bottom pic, you'll see the flames Craig put on the air conditioning covers when we replaced them 2 years ago. Now why he needed to do that is beyond me, but if it make him happy so be it. I wonder if any camper on the ground has ever noticed them.....

And for dinner, Craig made a wonderful spaghetti. He uses store bought sauce, but enhances it with sauteed onions, green peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, extra garlic, oregano, and thyme. And instead of ground beef, he used hot Italian turkey sausage he made into meatballs. Tasty!

And to end this fairly slow week, I have a jam packed Saturday. 9 haircuts, 2 blo-drys, and 6 colors. And of course later this evening, our Spartans play in the Final Four!

So I'm off to get ready for work.

Another chapter of life

Good afternoon.
I know, an unusual afternoon post. It was a very fine day for our retiring stylist, Pat. I picked up the cake on the way to work this morning, and it wasn't what I ordered... I mean, it looked good except it had plain frosting around the edges. We were suppose to have confetti sprinkles. The person who makes the cakes does it in the wee hours of the morning and of course had already left. They offered to give me a refund, but that wasn't going to make it right. So I took the cake and went to work. I called Craig and said, Stop everything, You need to get to work before 8am. Bring the Christmas cookie sprinkles, I think I can make it okay. And as a trooper, he made it on time. And the sprinkles did the job.


And the cake was delicious! Meijer's makes tasty cakes!
Pat was very impressed on what we did. I think she enjoyed the day.

I had to make sure I got a pic of us together since we didn't have any pics of the staff. We'll miss her a lot, but things always change. Some for better, some for worst, and some just are. We've been through a lot of 'chapters' and I've enjoyed most of them.

Well, that's all for now..........