This was a lovely day.   It is cooler and we had some rain which I am sure is not a happy event for the farmers.   For me it is rather indifferent, because my livlyhood does not depend on the planting of crops.

I finished the St. Kevin wall hanging by sewing the label on the back.   Completing things gives a person such a good feeling.   I need to hang St. Kevin so that I can take a picture and post it for you all.   I am pleased with him.    I will post the legend at the same time.

The Sheboygan County CWI Literary exchange was at the 1st Congregational Church this afternoon at 1PM.  There were four of us there and what a great sharing we had.   We discussed several of Patricia Monaghan's books that we had read.   She was something else.   Pat was a member and staunch supporter of Celtic Women International.   She passed away in 2012 and we will miss her, but what a legacy she left.  Look her up and read her books.   Wild Girls, the Path of the Young Goddess, is and easy read.

Mass was at 4PM.   Fr. Dan gave all the Mothers in church a special blessing.   I was very pleased with that blessing.   

I got flowers from Richard and Brenda today.   They are beautiful.  Spring flowers with roses.   I will post a picture tomorrow.   Got cards from Bobbie and Bret.   Both beautiful.   And it is only Saturday.

I am really tired today.   Tomorrow, I will be having lunch with the Jeff Deeley's and Mother from 10:30 until 2ish.  Sara is home for the weekend, so I will get to see her and Shane and Georgina will be there too.    I am so pleased to se them.

So.  Til tomorrow.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

The wind started blowing last night and the rain started coming down and it was still pouring when I got up and when Jody arrived at 8AM.   By the time she left at 10AM the rain was done but it is pretty chilly out there.

I baked a loaf of No Knead Bread today.   I started it last night of course, but had it done by 2PM today.  It is so easy and requires only three ingredients and water.

My neighbor, Jan, came over today to have tea and a visit with me.    She works such odd hours that we seldom get to visit except when I catch her as she is either on her way out or on her way in and we catch up a bit with the car running.     It was good.   She is a talented seamstress and artist but has little time for that.

I finished my league targets at Rhine Plymouth tonight.   The first one was OK but then my arm started hurting and the second was totally rotten.  Go figure.   So this league was pretty bad.   Maybe my arm will be no longer sore and I will be shaking less by the fall league.

I am editing the book for its final submission.    Should be done by next Friday.   This weekend is rather busy.    Tomorrow afternoon,  the Sheboygan Celtic Women will be meeting for our Literary Exchange,  that will work out so well.   The meeting is from 1 to 3 and then I will go to Mass and be home by 5:30PM.   

Gary Anderson, a repairman, is coming by tomorrow to see what he needs to do to repair the dings in the walls left by the wheelchair. 

So it is now time for bed.   Roxie will be glad to go, I think.   She enjoyed having a visitor this afternoon.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Dentist appointment at 8AM this morning so there was no sleeping in.   Roxie started nagging me at about 5:30AM but as I told her, I will not be leaving that bed before 6:00AM.  She ate all her morning food, so she was seriously hungry this morning.

All was well at the dentist and I now officially have the cleanest teeth in the family unless someone sneaked a cleaning in later in the day.

After the appointment, I went to the Exchange Bank for coffee and a scone.   About a month ago, I had stopped for coffee and one morning and bought some Alterra whole bean decaf.   When I got home, I couldn't find it anywhere,  I assumed that I had somehow knocked it off the seat when I opened the door somewhere.  SO I decided to try again.    When I went in and started looking at the coffee to choose my kind of decaf, the server asked if I had purchased a package about a month ago and forgotten it.    I couldn't believe it.    They remembered and saved it for me.    The owner even exchanged the package every week so it wouldn't get stale.    Do you believe that!   Now you know why I am so comfortable there.  

I was able to keep busy all afternoon with things around the house.   I left for Mother's house at about 5PM to meet Jeff and Kathy to go with them to a friend, Lynn Carpenter's funeral.    I am so glad I went.  The Carpenters are good friends of the Deeley's.    Lynn was bartender at his dad, Dale Carpenter's bar, called Dale's for years and years.   They always had corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day and every year, Lynn would bring two plates to Mom and Dad.    What a guy.    A good addition to heaven.    Missed by his family.

So it was a very eventful day and I am glad it is over.     Tomorrow, I will be home all day except for going out to Rhine to finish my targets for pistol league.    One of my neighbors, Bonnie, is coming with me.    That'll be fun.

So.  Rest well.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

So far the day has been so good.   I guess it is silly to say - so far -   Mostly whether the day is good of bad is up to us.

I started this morning slowly which is always nice.   At about 10AM, I drove over to the Custom Trophy place to pick up the two plates for Dick's urn and for the flag case.   They look so nice.  I now feel settled.   I went too early and had to come back.   When I told my neighbors we all got to laughing because I told them Dick was in the front seat of the van.   They agreed that it was nice that he could get out for a bit.   He would have loved that.

Yesterday, he would have been 83 years old.   I did not celebrate, I did not mourn.   I decided just to wish happy birthday in my heart and get on with the day.   Worked just fine.

I worked on the cookbook a good part of the day and I have decided to sort my major projects into the file cabinet that Dick and I got years ago.  We never did use it very efficiently but I know I can make it work.

Well, the rest of the day has passed, I just got home from a Poetry Circle at Mead Library.   We heard a lot of really good poetry tonight.    A couple of our attendees with a reporter from the area are going to use some art space at EBCO to show off printed poetry with four separated times when poets will be there and with a reading and nibbly things the opening night.    I will submit 3 or so of my poems and see what happens.

There has been an increase in the family in the last month.   Leslie, my daughter, was contacted by a group who contact birth mothers, upon request, and will ask if they would like to meet their birth children.    Well, Leslie had wondered all these years, 35 of them, how things had gone for the daughter she allowed to be adopted.   So, she said that she indeed would be delighted to be connected with her.    And they have spoken on the phone several times.     Her name is Courtney  and she is happily married to a wonderful guy.   They have an almost 3 year old boy named Cooper and  Courtney is going to give birth to twins in July.    Leslie is going out to help after the twins come.   Kind of exciting.   I have another granddaughter and great grandson, just like that and will have two more great grandkids in two months.   WOW

Pretty Cool!

Dia Dhuit

Mary

I took a walk this evening again.    I probably wouldn't have but Richard and Brenda called to check in.   We caught up a bit and then they said they were going out to walk because it was so sunny and nice out there.    They made me jealous so I went for a walk too.

Little League baseball is beginning so I watched a team practicing for a while.    It brought back such sweet memories of the years that Bret and Bart played Little League ball in Huntington Beach.   Several years,   I always volunteered to keep score.

I was home all morning and really got a lot done.   It is such fun to be crossing things off of my lists.  Then, after lunch, I went to the Kettle Country Quilter's meeting.  I helped a couple of people who decided to try the Cathedral Window Pattern get the pattern down.   We have an eventful year ahead.   Next month we are having a pot luck.    We want to make pincushions for the members of the Elkhart Lake club when we host them for a joint meeting in September.     I made the mistake of saying that I thought I was reading the pattern differently than everybody else and didn't think we needed felt, so I have to make one to see.    One step at a time, you know.

Tomorrow, I can pick up the flag, with its nameplate, that we received at Dick's funeral.   I am also bringing the urn to have a plate put on it.    Then I think it is finished.   

A spring haiku for you.

Up

Raptor flying high
Up over the fairy field
Spirit and beauty.

by me

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Visit with Bret

Bret on the porch of his Mobile home  

Bret getting his "hair done" at the party
 

Bret and Janet - isn't she lovely?
 

Jacquie - My ex sister in law

Doris another ex sister in law

Dick Johnston, my ex

My Tony's grave.  I left him a shell.

Monday again.   And it was very filled as usual.    I started off meeting my friend, Bob Fleming, for breakfast at the Point.   It was their special potato pancake day, so I ate them.    Bob and I caught up on what we are up to and I was able to share the St. Kevin stitchery which I finished last night with him.    He is such an artist and he tole me he really liked it which made me feel great.

I also shared it with the Bible Study.    There were 8 of us there today, almost all.    It was a good study.  We found out that Psalm 116, which we are in the middle of studying, is read at every  Passover meal and that because of that it is read at the Holy Thursday service.    We covered a lot of ground but still have a bit more on that one.  We found a big correlation between the Psalm and the Last days of Jesus' life through the Resurrection.

Next, I went over to Mother's.   She seemed a bit shaky but was very perky and we got her bills paid and had time for a good visit.   She told me the cutest story.   We were talking about the son of a friend who jumped off of a second story balcony after tying a cape around his neck like Superman (He didn't get hurt too badly and grew up with more sense.)   Mother told me that when she was a little girl, she tried to fly too.    She pinned some bird feathers to the shoulders of her dress and jumped out of a tree.  She was not hurt either and found out that she couldn't fly either.

I worked on several computer projects this afternoon and this evening went to the Plymouth Arts Center to practice for Springtime on Broadway, which will be on May 17 - 18.    If any of you want to go there are tickets left and we would like a good audience.    Bobbie and Bill are coming.   You can call me or the Plymouth Arts Center at 920-892-8409.

Home again.   It is my bedtime.   At least that is what Roxie is telling me.    She is glad I am home.   She always complains at me if I go out.

Tomorrow is the Quilt Club meeting.

Sleep tight.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

What a wonderful day.    I went to Mass in Sheboygan Falls at Blessed Trinity because there was the Mass for Dick today.    Nobody told me it was also First Communion Sunday so the Mass went on and on and on.   I really did not mind as I do enjoy watching the little kids processing in and looking so beautiful and handsome as they go through the ceremony.   I was afraid that Mother would think I had forgotten her.    Then I almost did.   I forgot to get her communion when I went up for mine and had to go and get the key from the chapel and wait till the pictures of all those kids standing in front of the altar were taken before I could get into the tabernacle to get the host.  

Mom was not the least bit concerned and was ready for her communion when I got there.    I picked up a picture of Mother that Dolores found somewhere and had copied for us.   She is very young and wearing this cute hat kind of cocked over one eye.  I can see why Dad fell for her.

I did go out shooting this afternoon.   Now I only have two more targets to shoot and can get them done next Friday.    One of my neighbors, Bonnie, said that she would like to come with me.   That will be fun.   She has pistols so I am assuming that she knows how to shoot.

This next week is starting to get pretty well filled up.   There is something going on every day.    I don't like that at all.   But dental appointments and funerals are adding to some of the usual things.  

So tomorrow , bible study, Mom and practice for that concert at the Plymouth Art Center.   I realized that I will miss the bust up party for the pistol league because of that concert.   Should have checked that out.   Oh Well, I am enjoying singing with a group again.

Bless you all

Dia Dhuit

Mary