Is it Monday again? Already?

Last week was pretty quiet. Ken arrived home on Friday with a cooler full of fish. He does love fishing. While at the Jaynes, there was much discussion about the upcoming 50th high school reunion for Ken and Bob and the other 35+ classmates. The annual reunions are held in July, in Davenport, in conjunction with Pioneer Days. All good small-town stuff. We have not attended since this last innovation, but I believe the fifty-year classmates ride in a parade on Saturday and then a town-wide dinner at the Memorial Hall on Saturday night. Bob and Sharon have been told they will host a function on Friday night at Liberty Lake. There is always one bossy one in every group!

I attended a garden show on Fox Island on Saturday. Elisabeth's garden club helped with hosting, and she invited me. Now touring gardens is probably toward the bottom of my list of favorite things to do, but she is such a good sport to go and do whatever I want, that I had to reciprocate. The gardens we visited (private residences) were lovely, but everywhere I looked I saw work, work, work and money, money, money. I want a yard/garden to look presentable, but I don't want to be the one to do it.

I am looking forward to Mother's Day since my only request (always honored by Ken and Craig)is KFC for dinner. I love that stuff!! In years past, when I was still working, my only other request was to spend the day doing just what I wanted to do, but now that is pretty much every day for me.

Karen called to alert me to a two-day quiltmaking class that is coming up in November in Coeur d'Alene. Judy Niemeyer is a Montana girl who has created a reputation for her beautiful and intricate paper-pieced patterns. This is all new for me, and a bit intimidating, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Since it is two days, we will stay overnight in Coeur d'Alene instead of driving back to Karen's.

And then there is the Quilt Shop Hop for western Washington the end of June. There are shops from the Canadian border to Vancouver that are participating, so Elisabeth and I are going to start up north and see how many we can visit. We will stay overnight at least one night, if not two, as we make our way south. The shops offer all kinds of promotions and fun so we think it will be a good time. I intend to contact another friend of ours (we three went into real estate together and were known as the Three Muskateers) to see if she is interested in joining us.

My hair stylist will be here in fifteen minutes (she comes to my house, isn't that great?)so I had better get going. Have a good week.

Ciao