Seven Scrumptious Suppers!

I am blessed, blessed, blessed!  These roses were the centerpiece of yet another birthday dinner held for me!  My friend Judy prepared a meal in her home for a total of nine of us.  In addition to the real roses, she made some paper flowers, too.  They hung over the table and added to the festive party aesthetics.

 

Each guest had their own place-card in the form of a check-out card for a library book!  Can you tell she spent quite a bit of time preparing for this?!!  The food was DELICIOUS!  Judy can do anything and whatever she does, she does extremely well.

 

The library card theme circulated to the wall to show the reason for the occasion.

  Judy even had a game for us to play entitled, "How well do you know Lynda?"  She had asked me questions a few days before the party.  She divided the guests into two teams and they had to guess the right multiple choice answer on subjects ranging from favorite color to years married to number of siblings and types of jobs I had held.  It was fun. We laughed and I came close to crying at the outpouring of love from those fabulous females.  Not only did they travel on a very blustery, rainy, dark night but they showered me with gift cards as well.  Because of that, I did not eat at home all week in the evening!!!

On Wednesday, we went to see the first ultrasound of our grandchild!  Amanda has those pictures on her blog.  It seemed easier to see them on the monitor though since it magnified them.  The baby is right on target in growth.  Praise God!

Friday morning saw the installation of a new basement door.  It still needs some trim and painting but that's called job security in chasing away boredom!  Ha.

On Friday night, my 104 years old friend and I shared frozen chocolate yogurt from Perkits.  It's one of her favorite treats.

 This morning I made pancakes and ham for breakfast.  My hubby needed a full stomach since scraping some of the texture off the kitchen ceiling was in his plans.  Less than a quarter of this ceiling is left to do.  In addition to some future painting (there's that word again), you will see another difference in this area - - maybe within two weeks?

We put a drop cloth over the cabinets and sink to keep the mess minimal.  Even though there is a tool that holds a bag to catch scrapings, we have found a plain scraper works best.  Spray the ceiling with water and gently scrape.  Repeat one or two times.

 

Talk to you next weekend . . .

Long life is the reward of the righteous; gray hair is a glorious crown.  Proverbs 16:31