“The RoseBouquet”

We got back home last Wednesday at 6:15pm, to find the garden grown about a foot taller! In just 5 days?!

Dad began picking raspberries yesterday, and we’ll have to keep that up daily for a few weeks now. I’ve made calls to the strawberry U-pick farm, but been put off until Monday. I can pick several pails full in about an hour, hull and wash them up and put them all away in the freezer in another hour or so, and then we’re stocked up for another year.

Monday night we were able to get a deal on a case of bananas for $8. Now I can make all manner of delicious blender drinks. I make them instead of lunch at noon, and hope it helps us both lose a few pounds. Dad needs to lose about 50, and I’d gladly shed about 30 lbs. (Funny; I never liked being skinny, but now I would prefer that again).

Dad is busy making more of those cross necklaces. He wants to be ready when the orders flood in. He was also thrilled to sell the one he was wearing when he met someone on the street the other day. He wears one just for that purpose.

Monday morning we were in the city and we stopped at Costco to check out the advantages of a membership in warehouse shopping. Looks like I could get my Rx for eyeglasses filled there for about $100 less.

I’ve agreed to help out at VBS on Friday morning, to fill in for someone who can’t be there. I don’t mind that so much, but have to be careful not to resent the many little things like that which come up and snitch half a day of my work schedule from me. Summers just are full of surprises, aren’t they?