Ok, I'm sure you all know that by VD I mean: VALENTINE'S DAY! People have strong opinions about this holiday. Many blame it on Hallmark and feel it's just an excuse for buying their cards. I don't really like to call it an actual "holiday". You don't get the day off or any over-time pay for working it. Those are the main criteria for me when describing a holiday. When I was a little nugget in grade school we made the Valentine's day boxes to collect all those love notes from our classmates. I didn't really like making those boxes. I'm not super creative. I REALLY didn't enjoy it when my kids were in school because you were suppose to do something creative and no matter how hard we tried there was always that overachiever parent who made a box that looked like the Vatican or something. We all knew the kid didn't even get to glue on a single scrap of craft paper to the project! (Not that I'm bitter or anything) Well, I do enjoy giving out Valentines. Any reason to celebrate something in the middle of a dreary Winter is OK by me. I found this old picture of my parents on a Valentine's Day. I remember that day because, of course, I snapped the pic and I made the dinner and gave them gifts. Looks like they enjoyed them!

Can you tell it's a late 60's, early 70's kitchen? Anyway, they look happy! I usually do something for Jack on this day. This year it's a card, some food stuff he loves, and I threw in a gift card...hey, he deserves it!
He wondered if I was trying to give him a message about shooting him with my bow and arrow! He gave me some beautiful flowers because he knows how much I love fresh flowers.
Thanks Babe! We have another tradition that I just made up. We have to eat burgers on Valentine's Day. It started 3 years ago and this year was no exception.
As I've said many times, I'm a burger kind of gal! That pretty much sums up our day except we had a surprise visit from my brother Jim and my sister's son, Bill. They were on their way home from a job in Pennsylvania and stopped by to spend the night before heading out early this morning. They work together for my sister's company....Corporate Communications. We got to sit and chat for a while and it was fun to catch up with them. So glad they stopped by. I just wish I had taken a picture of them. They are probably glad I didn't! Now on to the weekend. Today after work I took Arnie for some grooming:

He's going to have surgery on Monday and I thought it would be good to get his hair clipped. His little tumor under his right leg grew back. He had it removed last summer shortly after we adopted him. We took him to another vet for a second opinion and decided to get it done again since it's affecting his walking. Oh, he has to lose weight too....sorry buddy, no more snitching food from us! I don't care how cute you look begging! I think I mentioned in a previous post we were getting the front porch redone. Here it is:
It will look better after it's painted some time this summer, and all our green plants come back this Spring. At least it won't collapse on anyone!
I hope everyone had a nice Valentines Day. We can always use a bit more love in this world!