Weekend Windup

Last week was a busy work week.  That's good, I'm not complaining. But I was happy to see Friday arrive.  I worked out at the Endoscopy unit all week.  No lunch or breaks during those days but we get by. So you can understand my happiness at leaving on Friday afternoon.  I ran out to the car as soon as I was done and gave a sigh of relief at home.  About an hour later I realized in my haste to escape, I left my phone in the unit.  Of course it's closed by that time and nobody will be there until Monday morning.  So I made a call to the hospital and they hooked me up with security and the nice gentleman met me over there and unlocked the building and I was able to retrieve the phone.  Crisis averted. How did we ever survive all our lives without a cell phone? Anyway, that was my beginning of the weekend.  Also this past week I was again bitten by some kind of bug..probably a spider...that left my leg a mess:

A bit swollen and a bit of a mess but I've been on an antibiotic and it's getting better.  I don't even remember getting bit but obviously it happened.  I'm blaming that on my bad memory with the phone...that's my story anyway!  Thankfully the rest of the weekend has been good.  We hit the opening Saturday for the Farmer's Market and scored some sourdough bread and some "Had to have" items:

This is going to  my sister's house.  It will look super cute on her front door.  It would be easier to pass up if the person running that booth wasn't a co-worker! Ok, maybe not but I know Midge will love it.

This little piece of fence will find a permanent home here at the Pines and I can decorate it for lots of holidays.  I didn't take a pic of the bread we bought but trust me, it was good!  I completed a little project in the kitchen. I have a couple of shelves that housed a ton of cookbooks.  I went through them and only kept a few and the rest are going to my Granddaughters who want some, then to work and any left over will go to Goodwill.  Feels good to get rid of stuff!

Bye-Bye books!  One other thing that happened over the weekend was replacing the top of the back deck gazebo. I had ordered one earlier in the year.  I was so excited to find one in red that I didn't realize it wasn't the right size! (I think I need to slow down a bit)  I reordered another one and it finally came yesterday.  We were getting ready to put it up when we saw it was missing the separate top part.  NO WAY!  Another call later and now I'm getting another one next week. (Hopefully) Here's a pic of the box"

It was pretty smashed up so I should have known something would be wrong...can't anything be easy these days? I know this is small compared to other stuff going on in the world but it's still a thorn in my side in my world! Ok, no more whining!  On to a happy thing.  As we plan for our celebration of life for Mom in a few weeks I found a book I gave her years ago and asked her to fill out.  I'm so glad she did.

It's filled with lots of information about her childhood, memories of her past and her life as a young mother and wife and then as an older adult and her challenges and her strong faith.  I'm going to copy some of the entries and frame them to put on the tables for everyone to read.  My Granddaughter gave a similar book to Jack and I to fill out and seeing how much I treasure Mom's I'm going to get hers done and hopefully she'll enjoy that.  The weekend has gone by fast and I will leave with just a few pics of some of my flowers:

Things are growing quickly in our wet and warm weather.  Oh, one last thing since I haven't blogged in a week.  The Goodyear Blimp made pass overs to several hospitals in this area.   It was a nice thing to do to thank the front line workers:

Hi and Bye! Have a good rest of the weekend!