Ahh, the long weekend. I do love it. I feel like I did a lot and then I feel like I didn’t get much done at all.
On Saturday, after our traditional breakfast at Silver Diner, Bob and I went to The Container Store where I got some things I needed and some things I didn’t need at all. The bummer is, out of two things I saw the following day at Bed Bath & Beyond, both were cheaper at B3. Like, $4-$10 cheaper. Anyway, I got two luggage stands for the guest room because I like for people to be able to set their suitcases on something while they are here. Dad and Kathryn will be coming to visit next month so I’m sure they’ll appreciate that. Kathryn has them in her guest house as well – they are handy. I got a bunch of things for the Paris trip – the power converters, a sleep mask, some cute luggage tags (one for Jessie as well), some other silly odds and ends. That place is like crack. But, now that I know better, it is also expensive!
Rewinding to breakfast at Silver Diner… I knew there would come a day when I would be so old that the music I grew up with would play in there and I’ll be damned…they just switched the music in there up from the 50’s and 60’s to the 80’s. Skipped right over the 70’s (thank God, because I can’t say I was ever a fan) and went right into 80’s pop. While it isn’t quite the New Wave and 80’s Alternative that I adored (the general public a) probably has no clue what that is and b) couldn’t handle it), it’ll do. I’ll just have to wait for it to show up in a M&M (The The – This is the Day), Swiffer (Devo – Whip it Good), Ritz Cracker (Modern English – I Melt With You), Maxwell House (Madness – Our House) and so on commercial. It truly was the coolest and best music ever and has clearly stood the test of time because it is still played side-by-side with a lot of today’s music and fits right in.
Later that night, we went to Friday’s for dinner and had ice cream at Coldstone afterwards. Yummy, yummy, yummy!
Anyway, we managed to fit in naps each day (except today), mounted a new lock system onto our new gate, installed a new light timer for the front of the house (the last one died on us), oh, and most exciting of all, I assembled the three shoe organizing systems I got for Bob and me. I got these cool carousel ones and got him a rack for his closet. The carousels are the niftiest because you can fit so many shoes in such a small space.
Sunday, we swapped it up and went to IHOP for b’fast and today, we went back to Silver Diner. Yummy! Afterwards, Bob headed to hit balls and I headed out to ride Gracie Girl. Her was such a good girl. I trotted her for 6 minutes today and you’d have thought she was going to die. She’s enjoyed her sedentary lifestyle.
As usual, Karin had some new stuff installed in the barn. This time, it was the shower boom in the washstall. These things are beyond cool. The other thing is, she mounted a rack on the back wall of the grooming stall for all the girths. Then, some people came to look at her trailer and voila! SOLD on the spot for $12K! Doesn’t get any better than that does it?!
I’ve now broken out the sprinklers for the yard. We have a reputation to uphold here in the ‘hood. Some neighbors walked by the other day and told Bob that they love walking by our house because our lawn is always so pretty. Wow. I certainly can’t take any credit for that. I’ll be sure to call our True Green man to tell him – job well done. Anyway, the sprinklers are on timers and will kick on at about 3 a.m. for a half hour. I’ll get the front ones set up as well soon.
So, not a terribly exciting weekend by anyone’s standards. Just mellow and doing what we want to do, which is the way it should be.
