An Accomplished Weekend

The weekend went by way too fast as most of them often do. Still, I accomplished quite a lot!

I got a couple of scrapbook layouts finished for AYM. I did a ton of organizing in my scrapbook room---which leads me to a give-away. Guess how many layouts are in this pile.

I'll give you a hint---there are more than 100! My goal this week is to get them in their respective albums. Winner gets a scrapbook kit. If you don't scrapbook, I'll send you something else. Just leave a comment below with your guess.

Stephanie, Nicky, Jordan and Morgan came over to swim. They tried out Butch's new drink machine that the family gave him for Father's Day. It's pretty amazing. We all got in the pool. After about an hour, a thunderstorm popped up. That was a surprise as no rain was predicted. That put an end to our swim party.

Stephanie and Nicky took us to dinner as a thank you for their wedding.

We had never been here---they kept it a surprise. The food was fabulous. I brought home half of my steak. We had carrot cake for dessert---just a single piece to share. Honestly, I wish I'd taken a picture---it was a full quarter of a cake. We brought that home too.

I finished my book club book---The Island. It was really good---about a leper colony in the Greek Isles. I've just started the second one---The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. So far, so good. It's about an elderly man that takes off to mail a letter to a former work friend who is dying of cancer. After he mails the letter, he just keeps walking to go and visit her. He doesn't know how far it is, but someone mentioned 500 miles. The reader is sharing in his adventures.

I watched a few more episodes of Boardwalk Empire. I love the show, but was saddened by the shocking finale of season 2. Just like that---a couple of my favorite characters---killed off. I hate it when that happens. Or how about when you don't even know a show has been cancelled and one of your favorite characters shows up on another show---and that's how you find out? I hate that too.

Today, for "Movie Monday" we saw Jersey Boys. Totally loved it! Mindy and Steph saw it over the weekend. Steph loved it---Mindy, not so much. She was expecting it to focus on the music---just like the Broadway musical. Instead, it focused a little more on the life story. Still so good.

Speaking of Mindy---there was some excitement in her condo building on Music Row. A drunk guy followed a tenant in and up to the 11th floor. When he attacked her, her screams brought a couple fellow tenants who were able to tackle the guy and hold him for the cops. Mindy lives on the 10th floor.

More Mindy news---I think family and friends are going to be coming out of the woodwork soon. You know how that happens when people win the lottery? Well, she won the lottery! Last week in St. Louis, she bought 4 scratch off tickets. 3 of them were winners!! Unbelievable that she would have 3 out of 4 winners. She won $106. I probably shouldn't have advertised that. We may discover relatives we didn't know we had!

 I can never remember the name of these hydrangeas. They are either "never-ending summer" or "everlasting summer." They are a pale shade of blue.

 They are beautiful, these pictures do not do them justice. The color doesn't show up well.

This pretty little guy was on the tile in the kitchen. I must have brought him in with some flowers. Don't let his size fool you.

Can you see him? He's really pretty small and, no, I didn't kill him. I didn't even shoo him. I just left him alone. Since I have exterminators come every 3 months, he'll be dead on his own by tomorrow. That might seem harsh, but I look at it this way. If not, there could be babies. The next thing you know, they are eating something and causing damage. I really do like most things in the animal kingdom---just not in my house.

I had a call today about a 99 year old woman that needs a bridge partner for tomorrow. So, I agreed to play with her. I usually only play on Thursdays---and have for the last 25 years. I don't know this woman and who knows how we'll do together. But I thought it would be nice. I like old people. I don't mind having them in the house.

Later...