I slept a bit late this morning after my late night.   That Cornish Pasty Meal and the Brass Orchestra concert were well worth the late hour.

I was home all day except for a quick trip to fill the gas tank.   I would have been OK but then Monday would have become too busy.   It is busy enough already.

I spent today getting ready for the Tallgrass Board meeting on Tuesday, the things I need for tomorrow at Irish Fest and cleaning our various areas of the office that were out of order.

Bobbie and Bill came this evening and took me out for dinner.  They brought me a gorgeous long stemmed red rose for our anniversary.  I have it on the counter where our Roxie can't get it.   It is SO beautiful.   We went to Sweet Basil, Dick and my favorite restaurant.   I had salmon, Bill, walleye and Bobbie the pork chop special which was spectacular.  We were reminded of Dick as we enjoyed our dinner.  How special is that.

Home again, I am going to bed early because I have to get up with Roxie so that I can meet my ride to Irish Fest at 7:45AM. 

Whew,  what a weekend.

Dia Dhuit
Mary

A Cornish Evening

Just a note to tell you that I am safely home from the Milwaukee Cornish Pasty Dinner followed by a Cornish music concert by the Milwaukee Festival Brass.

The meal was excellent, the music was superb.   Felicia and I are SO glad that we went.  My friend, Tommy O Hagan and her husband Bob were also there.  She was so happy that we had come.

I have information on Cornwall and a tshirt that I have decided to wear on Sunday to Irish Fest.

It is after 11PM and this sleeping beauty has to go to bed.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

It was a busy busy day.   I got up at 7AM even though I would have LOVED to stay in bed a while longer.   However, I had a workman coming to clean my dryer vent at 8AM so that fixed that.

Because of the early rising, I did get a LOT done today.    I had volunteered to bring a cake to City Park for the food booth.  The Plymouth History Society had the concession for tonight's concert which I understand was Barbershop.    I baked in the morning and then had to get the cake there between 3 and 3:30PM.   I would have liked to go back, but today is the Feast of the Assumption, so I went to mass at 7PM instead.

Lots to do here, I cleaned around Roxie's box.    I started gathering fabric and drawing the plan for my next quilt picture.   I really have to have it pulled together and ready to sew before I go to Scotland because I will be talking about the process at IBAM which is just over a week after I get back.

Roxie is definitely feeling needy since her fluid input.   I called Bobbie and she said she will learn with me so that the two of us together can give them to her weekly fluids and perhaps learn to do them alone.   Roxie was so angry and frightened.   She just growled and hissed.  I hope perhaps Bobbie and I will make it feel less threatening.

So time for bed.   Tomorrow evening, Felicia and I are going to the UW Milwaukee for a Cornish Dinner and Brass Concert.  

Dia Dhuit
 Mary 

What a day.

I started off bringing my Roxie to the Vet for a blood test.   We are adjusting her meds down for a liver problem but her kidney levels are rising way too much.   Dr. Conners did an intravenous treatment for her which should be done each week to flush the kidneys.    We are trying to figure out how to do this.  She is not a happy girl and was growling and hissing during the treatment.  Dr. Conners said that she had to reassure the technician that they did not have to worry about her when they drew blood as she was hissing at them.  Poor Baby.

Then I came home and did a few things before joining my fellow high school graduates for our quarterly lunch.   We met at Chissies this time.  Good for me as it is close.   The food is always good but the service was a bit iffy.  Had some nice visits with my friends.   We are a very close class.

Home again, I had several calls to make and several email connections to catch me up with the several groups that I belong to.

Busy Busy.

I had sent cards to Leslie for her anniversary and birthday, but called tonight, a day late, to actually talk to her.  They are doing so well.    I like all my kids to know how much I love them.

Love the latest YouTube of our little Marcus who is growing like a weed.

So here we are at the end of the day.  Tomorrow is much quieter.   I will get caught up and go to Mass in the evening for the Feast of the Assumption.  Friday will start a whirlwind weekend, starting with a Cornish Pasty dinner and a Brass Concert.   I am so excited.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Well  My day started out really good and except for this awful headache ended well too.

I voted at 8AM, then went and joined my friend Bob Fleming for breakfast.  Home again, I baked cupcakes for the Tallgrass Picnic.

Went to the picnic this evening.   Leslie and Bill know that it is a fun picnic.  But I have gotten this rotten headache so am glad to be home and am going to bed.

Until tomorrow.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

A Monday much too busy.

First was Bible Study.   There were 6 of us there today.  We found that we had a lot to pray for and had a great discussion about what everybody should be doing to take care of each other - even on an international basis.   There are so many questions but the answers are not easy.   Some of them are very simple but simple does not mean easy.    Then I went to visit Mom

She looks wonderful.   She did say that she was feeling weak today.  It came kind of in waves.   I gave her communion and then took it to my other little people.   We had a super visit.  Eileen is so good at bringing and rotating pictures for her to enjoy and discuss.  Today she had one of Mother when she had her pet goat.   She had it when she was very young.  They had to send it away when it was getting a bit mean and going in the house and destroying things.   But the picture is adorable.

Then I picked up a Starbucks coffee and went to pick up my friend Sy Regan to go to the Sheboygan County Writers Club.  It was a nice meeting.   There were at least 20 people there.  We try to do an assignment every month.  This month we had - something people might not know about us.  This is what I wrote.

HOW MANY LIVES HAVE YOU LED

We all can make chapters of our lives.

Some are really exciting.

Some are mundane.

But they are all woven together

Into a tapestry of our time on earth.

To share one chapter not generally known

I must take you back to my childhood.

There was a nun, a serene, holy woman

Who taught us our Catechism as it was called 60 years ago.

Until I was eleven, she was my religious model

providing a weekly lesson of the Catholic faith.

At the age of fourteen, along with ten other besotted teenage girls,

I enrolled in the convent of the School Sisters of St. Francis

with the intention of becoming a serene, holy woman myself

Obviously, it didn't work.

I spent two and a half years in the Aspirant division of the nunnery. I am grateful for the education and values that I learned there. In time I came to know that this was not the life for me. My doubts came to a head when I went home to join my family in the baptism of my new baby brother. Holding him in my arms, it dawned on me that I would never get to hold my own baby in my arms. I had not enough experience of the world to commit to that life. I do not regret those years. I do not regret leaving.

Since then, the Sisters no longer accept girls as young as we were into the training for sisterhood. A wise move. Interestingly enough only one of the ten of us professed as a sister and she has since returned to a secular life.

Sometimes I think that I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

After the meeting I picked up a frame I had ordered, took Sy home,   did a bit of grocery shopping and got home.   Boy was my Roxie glad to see me.

I made a batch of Guinness Cupcakes and will make another batch tomorrow for the Tallgrass Condo Picnic.   I love to bake so this is heaven for me.

Hope your day was as good.   

Please keep praying for my friend Cindy, my ex sister in law Jacquie, my ex husband Dick and my special sweet daughter in law Barbara.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

A lovely day.   It never got too hot.   There was a breeze, a gentle breeze, all day.

I baked brown bread this morning.   I had opened my house for a lesson on the perpetual calendar that my friends Cindy Matyi and Dolores Whelan put together in 2011.    Several people had asked for an explanation of how to use it.   There were three of us, so not Joan Kramer, Joan Schwabe and myself all have a pretty good understanding and are planning on getting together in a month or two to see how we are following the suggested spiritual exercises mapped out in the calendar.   Should be fun.

Please pray for my friend, Cindy, who is struggling with cancer and has been for as long as I have known her - probably 15 years now.

Tomorrow will be a usual busy Monday with Bible Study, Mom and the Sheboygan Writers Club.

Actually all of August is turning out to be busy,  I don't know how that happened.

Anyway.  Take care everybody and I will check in tomorrow.

Dia Dhuit

Mary