Gary's Birthday

Another dreary morning....rained last night.

Today Gary turned 83!  He's still going strong in spite of both of us being gimpy.

He went out for coffee and eventually I headed to Brockport to run a few errands before meeting my friend, Nancy Green, for lunch.

First I went to the Town Hall and renewed Little Wonder's dog license, by noon I was at the Diner for lunch and afterward I went to Hanny's to drop off three boxes of beautiful thread.  I behaved for the most part at lunch.  Had a chicken salad sandwich and took the chips home for Gary.  Did have 5 of Nancy's French fries....bad bad bad.

On the way home I stopped at Wegmans.

Jenny and Finn have had colds the past couple of weeks and are doing well now.  Today I got hit like crazy.  Sneezing, sore throat, achy body....beat, runny nose.  Little Wonder was happy to see me when I got home and I started on a special birthday dinner.

Gary took it easy this afternoon....did a lot of reading.  It would have been even better if the fire was going.

Made some brownies for dessert.

Stephanie had sent us a present a few months ago and it included a couple of filets, which Gary grilled.

I made a salad and some roasted potatoes.  Wouldn't you know....potatoes again.  No salt on mine (not on my filet either)....I only had 6.

LW had his dinner and wanted some of mine.  He lucked out and had a bit of everything.  I Can't believe he likes salad!

A major treat.

Gary got over 120 birthday greetings from his friends and it made his day.

Night all.

Short.....

Another cool day with rain on the way tonight.

Gary went for coffee and I spent part of the morning making sauce and applesauce.  I sure did not take many pictures.  Finn arrived at 10 to help Gary by dragging stuff downstairs to throw in the dumpster.  He made over 20 trips and we got rid of a lot more junk.  I'm glad he has good knees!

I used up all of the tomatoes in the house and we are approaching THE END.  Have no clue how many bags we have frozen.

I had a small bowl of apples left and they added up to about a pint of sauce.

The Buffalo Bills had a game today...started at one and it sure was not their best (even tho they ended up winning).  They wore their newest uniforms and I can't stand them.  Pepsi is a sponsor of the Bills and they now look like a can of Pepsi.  Ugmo!  I swear it put the whammy on them!  Hopefully they will bring back the normal red, white and blue ones.

Little Wonder slept through most of the game.

When it was over, Gary went out to stack wood and I spent some time in the garden by the sign pulling canes off the daylillies.

I used some of the sauce I made for veggie pasta tonight. The salad was made from one of our Japanese cucumbers with vinegar and oil.  I have been starving.  Pretty soon I am going to have a hot dog!

It sure is getting dark early.

Night all.

PS

I need to share this drawing that was done by one of my past students and showed up on my computer today.  The fox by Shamra Westbrook.

 

More Junk for the Dumpster

Yet another cool morning....plenty of sunshine.

Gary went to Brockport for coffee and eventually I went up to the loft to start cleaning up the debris left by the roofers.  As if we don't have enough to do....yesterday a load of wood was delivered and it's just another thing to keep him moving.

When Gary got home he took over and I caught a break.  Had to wear a mask up there as it was so dusty from sweeping.  We must have filled up 8 huge garbage bags with dried out chunks of wood.

We also started taking stuff down to the dumpster and are trying to figure out what we want to keep or give to Jenny for her new house.  Uncovered these Blues Brothers albums.

Jenny made many trips carrying things down the stairs....my least favorite thing to do.

I did get in a trike ride today.  #36.  Wore my pjs and a big sweater.

Little Wonder is starting to get on the new couches now.

Dinner.....a big salad with chicken.

By 7:15 the sky was red.

Night all.

 

A Real Vacation Day

42 Degrees in Rochester this morning and 45 in Brockport!  Yikes!  Plenty of sunshine and it did warm up a bit.  Little Wonder and I went out in the garden looking for raspberries to take to bridge this afternoon.  Ended up with cucumbers and tomatoes instead.

The pastures are starting to come back and I should be able to get them in shape when I mow the next time.

On my way back to the house I found some dahlias that had fallen over so I brought them in.

At 12:30 I left the farm to pick up Hanny and Bobby and headed out to Linda's.  She lives on Lake Ontario and it was a real treat to be next to the water.

Linda is the person responsible for me getting back into teaching and I wanted to check out her latest painting, which is in progress.

She is also a talented quilter and made this for her son out of his old jerseys.

Another example.

Eventually we played bridge and did not stop until after 4.  Plenty of fruit, veggies etc. and I behaved myself.  Much improved over yesterdays disastrous numbers.

We had pineapple upside down cake for dessert which was gluten free and delicious!!!

This was a great escape for all of us.

Home around 5:30.

Poached eggs and toast for dinner.  Back on track.

Night all.