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What have I been up too?

6/11/2015

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I haven’t been skiving off!  I’ve been working harder than I have in a long time. I'm hosting a bridal tea party for my daughter-in-law to be this weekend, and there is no shortage of work to be done. I’ve been painting wicker furniture, the trim on the house, cleaning windows, gardening, paint touch-ups in the house, polishing silver, making lists, checking them thrice, then making new lists. 

As for the shower itself, I’ve only ever been to one and that was decades ago and I didn’t pay particular attention to how things are run so I’m a fish out of water.  I tried looking up a plan for a party but they don’t go into details as to timing….when the presents are opened, when the games are played, when to chow down, so I’m making my own plan.   I know Ashley will love whatever I do but if anyone isn’t happy with the results, I did it my way so take the highway…..

There is a lot of planning and executing details.  The menu, it’s a tea party, basically a luncheon, so I’ve planned the menu to include sandwiches, potato salad, ham, cheeses, shrimp cocktail, various fruit dishes, deviled eggs, punch, wine, tea of course, squares, butter tarts and so on.  I’m hoping to score a heart shaped cookie cutter to make fancy sandwiches, the theme after all is love.  Tomorrow is shopping day for napkins and decorations and then a trip to the city on Saturday for the cake and last minutes items. 

Today I’m in the shop making bling for prizes and gifts.  A few pairs of earrings and a necklace or two will use up some of the beads I’ve been hoarding.   Then home for more painting and silver polishing. 

Yesterday I scraped, primed and painted all the wicker furniture that has been sadly neglected.  It looks better than new and should give us another decade of sitting out on the back deck.  There is something about white wicker that pulls from my past. I think one of my grandmothers’s had a piece that ingrained the love for white wicker.  I'm a messy painter, even the pups have dots of white on their backs and my forearms and hands are splattered to the point where I wonder if I'll ever get it all off, but I'm happy as a clam.   

I also designed and had made a backing plate for the house numbers I purchased last year so that is now scratched off my list of things to do.  I drew a sketch of what I wanted and Steve Scott worked his magic.  After a couple of coats of high gloss red it’s definitely an eye catcher.  Boy, it’s amazing what you can do in a few days when people are coming over, all the jobs that lingered for years are being finished in a short time.  Better late than never and then we’ll be good for the rest of the summer and sailing!    

So I haven’t been to work much but I’ve left the shop in good hands.  Shane is back from his surgery and although he is taking it easy he can assist customers.  Deb is amazing and I have full confidence in her.   With the both of them in the shop I have full confidence that everything will be right as rain. 

I’ve been digging in the gardens like mad.  I won’t have them all done, my  body aches to the core so it’s slow moving, but there is enough done to show off the potential.  I lost of few bushes and plants from the harsh winter so I’ve purchased replacements and I’m sticking them in the ground.   Shopping for flowering shrubs and plants is a chore when the main question “Is this deer food?” dictates what you can buy.  Unfortunately most of the pretty scrubs are very attractive to the four legged diners that treat my gardens like a four star restaurant and I’m not prepared to build an eight foot fence just yet. 

I’ll keep picking away at the gardens in the coming weeks.  I start at one end and by the time I get through it all I have to start back at the beginning as the weeds sneak up behind my back and laugh in my general direction. 

I will admit I am at the peak of happiness.  I love playing in the earth and painting, being in my home during the day.   If this is what retirement feels like I better get back to work so those thoughts go away.  The weather is perfect right now.  Beautifully breezy, just the right temperature for sitting outside sipping ice tea on the back deck watching the sailboats rush by.    

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Hubby did a great job hanging the plaque and Honey thinks it looks great!   What a team! 
1 Comment
Janet
6/11/2015 02:22:11 am

It's great to get company etc. as it is a great way to get in gear and do all the things you should but never get around to-enjoy the moment

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