And just because I can.... this post is going live at 10:42pm EDT!
Gosh I missed Father's Day and the Grandson's Pre-k graduation and all sorts of stuff!
We didn't do much for Father's Day. The item that we bought ON Father's Day is more or less for me. A new lawn mower!! The one we've been using is probably 20 or so years old - and it's a beast to try to start, if I can even get it started. Plus, it's stored in the shed where the groundhogs have tunnels so there's always dirt all over the mower from those little bastards.
This one is pretty amazing. Besides being able to be stored up on end - the self-propelled function practically dragged me around the yard! So, what used to take me over 2 hours, I was able to get the entire lawn done in about 1 hour and 10 minutes. I still hate mowing, but it's slightly more tolerable.
Oh, I mow the lawn because the Spouse is in even worse shape than me. I'm afraid he'll keel over.
My old mowing shoes finally needed to be retired to the trash bin.
Last Friday I loaded up all my plants from work and took them home to do some repotting. I had every intention of bringing them back Monday, but then I realized I didn't have any place to keep them at home!! After we attempted to watch the Grandson play his last flag football game (he refused to play, so we left early. That's a story I choose not to get into) we took the granddaughter with us to drop my plants back off at work.
On our way there - I was getting texts from my sisters saying watch out for protests, etc, etc. I hadn't heard about the ICE Protests going on and found out from the sisters that one was happening at the intersection right by my work! Literally 1/4 mile away. However, we didn't see anything, traffic was still moving well so it must have been peaceful. The sister sent selfies of where they were right then, so I hopped out of the car and got a selfie with one of our shiny new trucks. Last Thursday was my 25th anniversary at work and the entire time I've worked there, company trucks have been boring white with a blue & gray lightning bolt type stripe down the side. Now we're getting pretty blue ones!!
We had record high temps one day last week and this is what the weather on my monitor said when I was getting ready to leave at 3:30pm. Confused much???
How about some flowers?
I got a little rose seedling from Mom's yard right after Dad passed away in 2009. I call it my Dad Rose. Normally in the fall I trim all my roses down really short but I didn't last year and now this is the first really good bunch of blooms I've gotten! Guess I need to get a trellis to put behind it.
A bunch of us always get together at the VFW in the spring & fall to clean up the grounds and plant flowers. See those bigger leaves, mostly on the left side? That's poison ivy! So that flower bed near the flagpole didn't get cleaned out. Most of us stayed away - even me and I've never had a reaction to it before. But the one lady who thought she'd be OK on the other side of that big rock got some nasty lesions on her arms.
S'mores to celebrate.
Yes - I'm one of those people who torch my marshmallows.
Besides being super tasty - it prevents everyone else from asking me to make their s'more!
We had a family reunion with my Dad's side of the family in early June. It's mainly just cousins who are left to attend.
The grandkids couldn't stay out of the water even tho it was chilly that day.
The granddaughter contemplating whether or not she can shove that whole strawberry in her mouth...
She tried!
So the Spawn is half-heartedly looking for a place to live. She refuses to seek assistance from the state (multiple ridiculous reasons) so I don't know how she thinks she's going to afford rent on any place around SE Michigan, unless she chooses Detroit, Flint or Pontiac - none of which I would want my grandkids living! Right after Pre-K graduation, the Grandson got himself in trouble (pretty sure there's some ADHD there) and his daycare basically kicked him out. The problem with that is while the Spawn works/ed there - she wasn't paying for the kids to attend. So now she has no place for the GS to go while she's at work and she can't take GD there if she's not there. So they're all at home, much to the Spouse's dismay. He works from home, do I need to explain? Trying to work with a feral 3 & 5 year old in the house is difficult. And he's stuck sitting at the kitchen table so he doesn't even have a door to close to keep them out. I don't know where I was going with that, so just send some prayers & good ju-ju that things fall into place and we can finally become empty-nesters!