What a night. I took Chelsea out just before I went to bed at about 11:00PM. She got me up at 3:30AM. I figured I was OK til morning but she got me up again at 5:45AM. If I had gotten to bed at my usual time that would have been OK but with two nights getting to bed late, I had to go back to bed after I walked her and fed them. I could only rest for another 45 minutes or so because our cleaning lady was coming at 8AM but it helped a little bit.
I spent the morning preparing a email to Maureen for the CWI newsletter about our Mary Pat event. Then I cooked some chicken that I had taken out of the freezer on Wednesday and needed to get prepared. It was chicken quarters. I added the scraps and skin to the last stewing chicken in the freezer to make a stock for a big batch of chicken soup. I will finish that tomorrow. I breaded and microwaved the legs for a couple of meals and put the thighs in the slow cooked with a lot of veggies for a chicken and biscuit dinner tomorrow. There is plenty, so if you are hungry around noon, come on over.
I did take a nap this afternoon. I washed the sheets today too.
Now we are closing out the evening watching the National Spelling Bee. There is a young man from Sheboygan, now in the last six. This would be really exciting.
Have a nice weekend.
God love you
Mary
Friday, June 04, 2010
Thursday, June 03, 2010
What a day. I am on a happy high. Isn't that a good thing.
Started out on not such a good note. We noticed a mole like thing on Dick's arm. So he called the doctor. Dr. Sharon was unable to see him so we booked with Lynn Wilderman a PA at Aurora Plymouth. She confirmed that it is suspicious so we have an appointment with Dr. Sharon on Tuesday to excise it. I will report as soon as we know anything and certainly on Tuesday to let you know that things are in motion.
Dick and I ran several errands on the way home, among them the task of filling that diddly darn left rear tire again. I HAVE to call the dealer to find out what is with that.
We had "Old Rags" on open face for out lunch - pretty good.
Now the fun begins. I went to my friend Kate Herman's house at 3PM for the reception for Mary Pat Kelly, author of Galway Bay. I keep telling you that title, because you should read this book. It is wonderful.
Kate did a beautiful reception. Her house, 150 years old and carefully restored (Kate says it will never be done.) is a beautiful place for such an event. Kate had wonderful hostess skills. She had wine, punch, cheese, fruit and crackers to snack on. Mary Pat and her sister Mickey and her Mother arrived right on time. (I gave the directions so am pretty proud of myself.) She even had a wonderful girl there playing the violin and whistle. It was SUCH an ideal reception. I left at about 4:30PM so that I could feed my critters, (all three of them) and get to St. Patrick's Church to meet Janet Mc Mullen and get thing set up. This was a real event. I got to the church and there was a car already in the lot. It was a couple from Oshkosh who came to hear Mary Pat. They met her three weeks ago in Ireland. She ran into them in a Pub, recognized their accent as Wisconsin and told them about the talk. I kept introducing them as the "couple from Ireland."
This really a win for me. We had close to 60 people there. Mary Pat sold lots of books. St. Patrick's got good publicity. (That church is a part of the consolidation of parishes that has become, Our Lady of the Lakes, in Random Lake.) St. Pat's is a beautiful church, built of stone by the Irish farmers in the area that brought field stone each Sunday to the site. The built it three layers at a time and had to go 9 miles to Lake Michigan to get the sand and about the same distance west to get the lime for the mortar to build the church. It is charming and well maintained with a graveyard in the back. I thank Janet Mc Mullen for wanting to be our host for this event. I am too tired tonight but will post a couple of pictures for you to enjoy tomorrow night.
Anyway. This is a super day for Mary. I am delighted that we were able to provide such a great event for the county.
Bless us all and pray for a safe trip back to Milwaukee for my Celtic Sisters that came up for the event and for Mary Pat and her sister and mother who are driving back to Chicago as we speak.
I talked to Bart and Barb tonight too. They will be here in three weeks. I can hardly wait to hug them and my Bret too.
God love you all.
Mary
Started out on not such a good note. We noticed a mole like thing on Dick's arm. So he called the doctor. Dr. Sharon was unable to see him so we booked with Lynn Wilderman a PA at Aurora Plymouth. She confirmed that it is suspicious so we have an appointment with Dr. Sharon on Tuesday to excise it. I will report as soon as we know anything and certainly on Tuesday to let you know that things are in motion.
Dick and I ran several errands on the way home, among them the task of filling that diddly darn left rear tire again. I HAVE to call the dealer to find out what is with that.
We had "Old Rags" on open face for out lunch - pretty good.
Now the fun begins. I went to my friend Kate Herman's house at 3PM for the reception for Mary Pat Kelly, author of Galway Bay. I keep telling you that title, because you should read this book. It is wonderful.
Kate did a beautiful reception. Her house, 150 years old and carefully restored (Kate says it will never be done.) is a beautiful place for such an event. Kate had wonderful hostess skills. She had wine, punch, cheese, fruit and crackers to snack on. Mary Pat and her sister Mickey and her Mother arrived right on time. (I gave the directions so am pretty proud of myself.) She even had a wonderful girl there playing the violin and whistle. It was SUCH an ideal reception. I left at about 4:30PM so that I could feed my critters, (all three of them) and get to St. Patrick's Church to meet Janet Mc Mullen and get thing set up. This was a real event. I got to the church and there was a car already in the lot. It was a couple from Oshkosh who came to hear Mary Pat. They met her three weeks ago in Ireland. She ran into them in a Pub, recognized their accent as Wisconsin and told them about the talk. I kept introducing them as the "couple from Ireland."
This really a win for me. We had close to 60 people there. Mary Pat sold lots of books. St. Patrick's got good publicity. (That church is a part of the consolidation of parishes that has become, Our Lady of the Lakes, in Random Lake.) St. Pat's is a beautiful church, built of stone by the Irish farmers in the area that brought field stone each Sunday to the site. The built it three layers at a time and had to go 9 miles to Lake Michigan to get the sand and about the same distance west to get the lime for the mortar to build the church. It is charming and well maintained with a graveyard in the back. I thank Janet Mc Mullen for wanting to be our host for this event. I am too tired tonight but will post a couple of pictures for you to enjoy tomorrow night.
Anyway. This is a super day for Mary. I am delighted that we were able to provide such a great event for the county.
Bless us all and pray for a safe trip back to Milwaukee for my Celtic Sisters that came up for the event and for Mary Pat and her sister and mother who are driving back to Chicago as we speak.
I talked to Bart and Barb tonight too. They will be here in three weeks. I can hardly wait to hug them and my Bret too.
God love you all.
Mary
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Well, I forgot to post again last night. It was an extremely busy day. It started at 7:30AM when the crew came to replace the air conditioner. People in and h=out of the house. I could not eat because I had to be at the Plymouth Clinic at about 8:30AM to take my stress test and could not eat or drink for four hours before the test.
I was home before 9:30 and Dr. Murthy said that I handled the stress better than many people that are only 40. The results were in late yesterday afternoon and my heart is fine. I figured so, I think it is remains of the healed torn ligaments in my rib cage.
My next appointment was at Wells Fargo do do some business for Mother. That was at 10.
I got home in time to fix lunch for Dick and me before going to Quilt Club for a short part of the meeting. I wanted to pick up this month's pattern for the block of the month project we are all working on. I got to show the blocks that I HAVE finished. I had forgotten that it was a pot luck. But I could only stay for a half an hour anyway because I was scheduled for a bone density test at the Plymouth Clinic at 2:00PM.
By the time I got home, I was totally exhausted and just managed to keep myself awake until a reasonable hour to go to bed.
Today was much better. I baked quite a bit. I had to make cookies for tomorrow night's Mary Pat Kelly talk. Then I made a fruit salad and scones because Mary Pat might have been staying here tomorrow night and I wanted to have things premade for breakfast and all. She and I finally got it all together. Her sister is going to drive her up and take her right back that night so I will not have a guest anyway.
Tonight Bobbie, Bill and I went to Horace Mann to see the Sheboygan Theater's production of Brigadoon. I really wanted to see it because it has been probably 50 years ago that I saw it on stage. My neighbor, Jan Wilkinson, was the costume designer. It was a good production. We were very impressed with several of the performers. There was a lot of dance in it too, which is bit unusual for this company. It was all good and much of it was really good.
So I am home again and trying to get Chelsea settled down so that I can go to bed.
Hope all is well with you. Tomorrow will be a busy day also. I will be sure to report.
God love you
Mary
I was home before 9:30 and Dr. Murthy said that I handled the stress better than many people that are only 40. The results were in late yesterday afternoon and my heart is fine. I figured so, I think it is remains of the healed torn ligaments in my rib cage.
My next appointment was at Wells Fargo do do some business for Mother. That was at 10.
I got home in time to fix lunch for Dick and me before going to Quilt Club for a short part of the meeting. I wanted to pick up this month's pattern for the block of the month project we are all working on. I got to show the blocks that I HAVE finished. I had forgotten that it was a pot luck. But I could only stay for a half an hour anyway because I was scheduled for a bone density test at the Plymouth Clinic at 2:00PM.
By the time I got home, I was totally exhausted and just managed to keep myself awake until a reasonable hour to go to bed.
Today was much better. I baked quite a bit. I had to make cookies for tomorrow night's Mary Pat Kelly talk. Then I made a fruit salad and scones because Mary Pat might have been staying here tomorrow night and I wanted to have things premade for breakfast and all. She and I finally got it all together. Her sister is going to drive her up and take her right back that night so I will not have a guest anyway.
Tonight Bobbie, Bill and I went to Horace Mann to see the Sheboygan Theater's production of Brigadoon. I really wanted to see it because it has been probably 50 years ago that I saw it on stage. My neighbor, Jan Wilkinson, was the costume designer. It was a good production. We were very impressed with several of the performers. There was a lot of dance in it too, which is bit unusual for this company. It was all good and much of it was really good.
So I am home again and trying to get Chelsea settled down so that I can go to bed.
Hope all is well with you. Tomorrow will be a busy day also. I will be sure to report.
God love you
Mary
Monday, May 31, 2010
Finally, a day off where I actually did get to spend the entire day at home. I was rather lazy today too. It was a difficult night. Too warm, It stayed up in the mid to upper 70s outside so that translated to the same thing inside as we are without air conditioning. Today was much cooler, and we were able to use the air a bit before it stopped cooling again so it was much better.
Right now the house, especially our bedroom is cool.
Chelsea is much improved. We are still giving her the pills until I check with her vet tomorrow.
I did some sewing downstairs this afternoon and got the downstairs ready for my guest. Mary Pat Kelly will probably be staying here on Thursday night. I also stacked all the bears that have been sitting on the stairs that go to the lower level on the pool table so that the Installers will be able to bring the units down and not be tripping over stuffed animals.
I talked to Bret today. He has his tickets for coming here at the end of the month. Yea. I can't tell you how much I look forward to having both of my boys here.
Bobbie, Bill and I will be going to see Brigadoon at Horace Mann School put on by the Sheboygan Theatre Company. Mom is way to weak so I asked them. I probably WOULD skip it but I really want to see Brigadoon, I have not seen that one in literally years.
Tomorrow I will be going to Plymouth Aurora to have a couple of tests that Dr. Murthy ordered. Just checking my bone density and a couple of other things.
We had t-bone steaks, corn and garlic bread for our dinner. I grilled outside and were they ever good.
Yesterday when Chelsea and I went for our walk, as we were walking past my friend Rita's house she came out and said. "Oh, Mary, I thought it was probably you." Her family, with two little boys, was visiting and one of the boys saw Chelsea, walking quite a way behind me on her long leash, and ran to tell his Mom that there was a lost puppy and he wanted to take it home with him. He and his little brother came to pet her. She was quite gracious about it. She had met two older boys, also visiting a grandma earlier on the walk so she was really tired when she got home.
The next three days will be a real challenge. Pray for me.
Thank you
God love you
Mary
Right now the house, especially our bedroom is cool.
Chelsea is much improved. We are still giving her the pills until I check with her vet tomorrow.
I did some sewing downstairs this afternoon and got the downstairs ready for my guest. Mary Pat Kelly will probably be staying here on Thursday night. I also stacked all the bears that have been sitting on the stairs that go to the lower level on the pool table so that the Installers will be able to bring the units down and not be tripping over stuffed animals.
I talked to Bret today. He has his tickets for coming here at the end of the month. Yea. I can't tell you how much I look forward to having both of my boys here.
Bobbie, Bill and I will be going to see Brigadoon at Horace Mann School put on by the Sheboygan Theatre Company. Mom is way to weak so I asked them. I probably WOULD skip it but I really want to see Brigadoon, I have not seen that one in literally years.
Tomorrow I will be going to Plymouth Aurora to have a couple of tests that Dr. Murthy ordered. Just checking my bone density and a couple of other things.
We had t-bone steaks, corn and garlic bread for our dinner. I grilled outside and were they ever good.
Yesterday when Chelsea and I went for our walk, as we were walking past my friend Rita's house she came out and said. "Oh, Mary, I thought it was probably you." Her family, with two little boys, was visiting and one of the boys saw Chelsea, walking quite a way behind me on her long leash, and ran to tell his Mom that there was a lost puppy and he wanted to take it home with him. He and his little brother came to pet her. She was quite gracious about it. She had met two older boys, also visiting a grandma earlier on the walk so she was really tired when she got home.
The next three days will be a real challenge. Pray for me.
Thank you
God love you
Mary
I forgot to do my blog = again- I woke up to take Chelsea out here at about 2:30AM and remembered. I guess days that I get to be mostly at home make me lazy.
The heat too. I told you that our air conditioner is out and managing the house temps is really hard. It got up to 78 in here , but the temperature outside was in the upper 80s. Actually it crept up in her AFTER the outside temperature started dropping. Very weird and it takes forever for things to drop in here. Well we only have one more day and night and it is supposed to be somewhat cooler tomorrow.
George and Betsy are in town and I went to Mom's this noon and had lunch with them an Mother. They are fine and spending time with mothers. Betsy's Mother is her too, you know.
Aside from that, It has been quiet. Chelsea is much better. I have cut the pain pill and am just giving the muscle relaxant.
That's all Folks.
God love you
Mary
The heat too. I told you that our air conditioner is out and managing the house temps is really hard. It got up to 78 in here , but the temperature outside was in the upper 80s. Actually it crept up in her AFTER the outside temperature started dropping. Very weird and it takes forever for things to drop in here. Well we only have one more day and night and it is supposed to be somewhat cooler tomorrow.
George and Betsy are in town and I went to Mom's this noon and had lunch with them an Mother. They are fine and spending time with mothers. Betsy's Mother is her too, you know.
Aside from that, It has been quiet. Chelsea is much better. I have cut the pain pill and am just giving the muscle relaxant.
That's all Folks.
God love you
Mary
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