“The RoseBouquet”

When you know that company is coming that hasn’t been to your house before, do you suddenly see your surroundings in a new light?

That’s what’s happening to me these days. A pen pal from Vancouver, B.C. is coming for a visit Wednesday. (That’s why I’m writing this ahead). Although I do a usual cleaning on Saturday, my regular domestic day, I keep turning around and spotting things that would look messy or cluttered to Betty. For us they have just been handy lying there, but now they seem to be out of place. I did some extra tidying in the guest bedrooms and the kitchen yesterday. Today I’m baking buns again, and I’m noticing the floors and stuff piled here and there… so I’m snatching things up and tidying some more as I go.

Betty is in Saskatoon to check out some innovative methods of a nursing home there, for ideas to take back to her place of work, but tomorrow (Wed.) morning we’re go pick her up at her hotel, we’ll get in some shopping, and bring her home here for the afternoon and supper. Then we must get her back to the airport by 7:30 pm.

Actually. The trickier part is deciding which things from my work schedule can be bumped and which things I must do ahead because Wednesday all day is going to be a mini-holiday with Betty. As you can see, this RoseBouquet got a must-do place in the schedule.

By the way, spring has come to these parts. The roads are nearly dry. Today it was warm again and the snow and ice melted off some of the sidewalks. The big drifts of snow grow dirtier all the time as they shrivel and shrink and seep away. Dad has our rain barrels set up under the new eavestrough, and they are brimming over!