We all have ability. The difference is how we use it

Sorry my posts are so irregular. Have been sick. Have an acute upper respiratory infection, that has me sleeping a lot. Saw Dr. and now have some meds. Hope they hurry and work. Lots of love and hugs, Judy

                   

Margo...

As usual, I am woefully behind on getting back to my friends.  Ack!  I hope you're doing real well; Alice, too.  We're doing okay here; Dennis has a sore shoulder but it's getting better.  The temperature has dropped so it's about 45 degrees and we're getting rain.  Alas, our sunny spring days have flown the coop...for now, and at least the next few days, apparently.  So the grass and weeds will run amok in the yard and once it dries out we'll have plenty of work to do. 

Son Nick has taken a couple of weeks off from work--just using some of his built-up vacation time.  He has decided to try his hand at growing a beard.  I have no idea what it will look like, as this is a first for him.  He used to have long side burns when he was in high school, but that's been the extent of his venture into growing facial hair of any kind.  Should be interesting to see how it turns out.

The wedding you went to sounded like it was real nice; I've never heard of having a photo booth at a wedding, but I think it's a nice idea.  After all, the guests are all dressed up for the occasion, and why not get a few nice pictures to remember it?  Sorry the wind made a mess of your hair--we get that a lot here so I tend not to worry about it overly much.  If my hair has to stay looking nice then I resort to hair spray, though I hate how it makes my hair feel.  All stiff and tacky--yuck.  But sometimes it keeps you from looking like you got your hairdo by using a blender, so I use it if I have to.  Or feel I have to, which is sorta the same thing, isn't it?

I'm with you.  If I plant anything at all, I want it to be something that will last, not die off at the end of summer.  Perennials just seem like a more frugal choice.  Some annuals will reseed themselves, however, so if you know what you're doing (which I don't!), you can actually get a perennial effect with annuals.  Of course you have to remember where the annuals were and not disturb the soil too much or you'll lose them.  But what the heck...if it makes Alice happy to have those spots of color and she's willing to do the work of planting them...why not?  You'll both get to enjoy them if the rains don't drown them before they can get a good toe-hold. 

Dennis planted a bunch of corn the other day but now we're getting days of rain, so his plantings might be a wash.  That's okay by me, because we really don't eat a lot of corn anyhow.  And he bought THREE seed packets of the stuff...gee whiz! 

It's too bad that the Boston bombings put a bit of a damper on the Derby festivities; but better safe than sorry.  By now the race has been run and a winner crowned.  I have no idea what horse won or by how much as I didn't see the race.  I'm sure it was on TV...I just missed it, is all.  I probably missed quite a few things.  We had 18 channels go AWOL out of our satellite package.  Had to call for repairs.  The guy came out and replaced our receiver for the satellite--our model has become obsolete, apparently.  He also replaced our dish.  So everything is new...even the channel guide looks different.  BUT...we sure have a much better picture now!  The dish that got put up is HD ready so now we can watch some HD channels in HD.  Pretty nifty.

One last note and then I'll scoot...it seems the rain (which has been steadily falling all day) has found a hole of sorts in our roof somewhere.  It's dripping in my office.  This spot has leaked before, but it hasn't since Dennis redid the roof.  Time to tar all the valleys up there, I think.  But not until it dries out again.  Work, work, work...always something in this old house! 

Take care, have a wonderful week!

Love and Hugs,
Paula