Joyful June Highlights

                                                          JOYFUL JUNE HIGHLIGHTS

Youngest son and fiancee's wedding shower.  This was a combined shower for both of them.  I have never been to one of these before but it turned out to be quite fun.  I think the cutest part was when they were opening gifts and a number of girls told my son not to break the ribbon.  He looked confused until they told him the tradition of breaking the ribbon meant babies.  He said, "well, we don't want that quite yet."  B and I laughed at that.

We celebrated our 49th anniversary with a dinner out at a local Italian restaurant.  The kids were with us and we had a great time.  They asked us what our wedding was like 49 years ago.  It was decided by group consensus that we had a very traditional wedding which probably wouldn't fly these days.

Our oldest son came home for a short visit although he and our dil would be coming at the end of August for the wedding.  They will not be able to stay long in August because our dil's school starts in August and she couldn't take too much time off.  He decided he wanted to spend more time with us and do some things around the house that we are no longer able to do.  He loves to do projects when he comes for a visit to save us from trying to do them ourselves and possibly hurting something or paying someone to do them and it being expensive.

As I posted earlier on my blog, the deer had a wonderful buffet with eating all my potted flowers and hostas.  Strange thing, they only ate the solid green hostas not the green and white ones.  Possible a different taste?  I don't know.

The boys bought new garage shelving for B for Father's Day.  When our oldest came out for his visit, he put it together with B.  He also said his dad was a hoarder of half empty cans, broken tools and miscellaneous stuff and started throwing it away.  B said he might use that stuff someday.  Our son laughed and said, "sure, dad." and then they both threw junk away.  Made for a fun afternoon and the garage looks great.

Had to have two window screens repaired.  They were very old and had holes in them.  Not helpful during mosquito and wasp time.  The man who repairs them is retired from his window installing business and does repairs now as an added income for retirement.  He did a great job and they look brand new.

When we left for the airport for oldest son to fly home, he locked the front door not realizing that we never lock the door knob lock because we don't have a key for that. We just use the dead bolt.  When we got home from the airport, we found we couldn't get into the house.  We didn't want to break any windows-too expensive to replace and with the holiday coming, too long of a wait to get them replaced.  So B went into Friday the 13th mode and broke the doorknob off the door with an axe which got us in but with no way to lock the door.  So we had to go out and purchase a new door.  Going to be a bit expensive and not sure when it will get installed.  B explained what happened to our son and he offered to pay for the whole thing.  B said half would do. Upside is that I am getting a nicer looking door than we had.

In June, we made donations of various kinds.

*Donated large amount of brown grocery bags to local thrift store

*Donated large amount of books to local library     

 *Donated 6 cat and dog small blankets-I cut up and resewed old blankets we don't use anymore,
   food bowls, 2 bags of dry food-one cat and one dog and a bag of environmentally safecleaning
   supplies to our local pet shelter. 

We are hoping for a much quieter July as we get ready for the wedding in August but as B says, "With us, you never know."

                                                      Happy 4th of July everyone!