Sunday Retirement Musings

I can't even say I overslept this morning. I was awake all right, but getting out of bed and dressed for church was another thing entirely. Fortunately a church down the road has a Tuesday morning service I can make allowing me to get communion-albeit still not on Sunday.......I was wimping out because it's a 50 degree day in the midst of eight degree ones and didn't want to go out in the "cold". Yep, that's me!  

I read somewhere that putting a penny in a vase was good for flowers.  While I'm generally not an expert on flowers, it's been one week since Mother's Day, and here are my tulips, still standing upright.  

Also healthy and standing upright are my fairy garden plants, growing so quickly they may need to be trimmed back. I've removed all the Easter stuff and am getting ready to give her a patriotic theme. I always figure that if I put up Americana decor now I can leave it til at least the second week in July.  My plan is to paint a  miniature light house and then make paper and fabric decorations.

Changing the topic a bit, am I the only one who finds that oatmeal is simply not as filling as other stuff that's  breakfast food? I mean, I use Great Grains that has flax seed and such, have berries and such on top and I still need a mid morning snack sooner rather than later. I alternate oatmeal with eggs and sausage, whole grain waffles and the occasional bagel and lox. And no, yogurt will not work for me. Eww!

Often when I find a new blog or web page, I tend to go down the rabbit hole. I start reading backwards and just keep on going. This week I've been exploring Judith's blog, and Donna's blog. Please check them out and I'll be putting them on the ole sidebar soon. I also found a creative blog, and have already bookmarked way too many projects. If I ever get to a third of, the recipes/projects/places to go/things to do it will be a shocker. But then again, that's the challenge of it all, ya know?  

Purple yarn donation that I'm turning into a scarf for the meals on wheels people. Surely one of their clients will enjoy purple next fall ?

Now, since this weekend has given me a couple "cool" days, I'm gonna use the oven instead of the slow cooker and make a cross rib roast. With redskin mashed potatoes. The kind of cooking that doesn't happen all that often round here. At least when I'm doing the cooking!