Bev and Barbara, I am sorry I have not been on the forum in over a month and I do want to thank you for your welcome. You know my patients always ask me if I'm good Karma or Bad Karma and I always tell them it all depends on how they treat me! What am I working off? Well, THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION! I have such a rich life and sooooo much to be thankful for. But there are always thorns. The Garden is mostly in and we have enjoyed lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, a little spinach, radish, and green onions. The peas and potatoes are blooming and I have been pinching blooms from the tomatoes for a month now. I never let them bloom until after June 1st so I have healthy roots and plants to bear all of those tomatoes, we have 17 plants this year. The sweet peppers are starting to bloom now too. The cucumbers and pole beans are starting to want to climb and my herbs are just beautiful this year.Kate is out asof today. She has opted to take summer school for PE and Health. Mostly to be with her friends. She is at a birthday sleepover tonight.She got a Presidential Education Recognition Award this year for maintaining an A average through middle school (WE called it Jr. High) and scoring in the 99th percentile in Math and English on the Common Assessment. Hey, I almost forgot, she competed in a regional EXTEMPORE in Kansas City at he end of April and took 1st place for her Soliloquy as the Fairy Queen from Shakespeare's " A Midsummer Night's Dream" . Her team also won 1st place for their original skit incorporating 4 of Shakespeare's plays. She is an awesome performer and my heart stopped beating I swear, while she was performing. She blew everyone out of the water! Can't tell I'm proud Huh? I have a picture of her in her "costume" if I can figure out how to post it I will. Funny Mom story with that costume. She was told that costuming carried no points for the individual event. Then 30 minutes before she was to perform her teacher, who took these kids to the competition, came through saying costuming carried points! We all panicked as she had none for this event. Luckily, I drove up in the car instead of riding on the school bus and Kate turns to me and says "MOM!!, Will you try to find something?!!!???" I jumped in the car and long story short , took off in an unknown suburb and 20 minutes later returned with a "costume" from Dollar General! 2 white sheers, 1 Royal purple sheer, 1 small yellow Memorial Day wreath,(they had no purple or white), one pair of scissors, bobby pins and 1 pair of white ballet type house shoes, I cut a head hole in the white, (she wouldn't stand still for the second one, she had 5 minutes to performance) and arm holes in the purple, she put on the ballet shoes and we pinned the wreath in her hair ( I drove with one hand and cut the center out of the wreath with the other on the way back to the competition.) She went on cool as a cucumber and peformed perfectly. The other teacher from our school whispered ,"Where did you come up with that costume?" I told her I was channeling Scarlet O'Hara and Carol Burnett. Did I mention I have rich life? And Jim and I meant to be together? Yeah, I think so. Michael, I read that your wife and daughter went to a dance competition, How did that go? Oh Hey, I forgot, we have STRAWBERRIES, loads. And since we are organic we can eat them while we pick and I have managed to get enough into the house to make a fresh strawberry pie AND get some in the freezer. That is no mean feat as Katey Jean, Pixie that she is can put away some strawberries and when she sees that posted I'll be in for a tongue lashing, one of the things she does best!
I've got to go to bed now. I work this crazy memorial day weekend & since we live at The Lake of The Ozarks, it's usually pretty busy and most hospitalizations are Alcohol related. Excess drink and big fast boats or PWD's sometimes don't mix too well. Oh well, job security I guess. G'night all.
In the Clan, Karma.
