Tom phoned yesterday to let me know that he is now at Carlo's in Idaho.  Sadly he had a less-than-productive rock-collecting trip in Oregon this year.  Between the cold and rainy crappy weather (which never cleared) and the fact that all the 'good stuff' is gone, he only ended up with half a bucket of material to bring home.  And unfortunately the weather in Idaho isn't any better, so no idea what the guys will do instead of fishing!

Marcie dropped off my quilt yesterday morning on her way to run errands (she'd attached the binding for me, so it's perfect) and throughout the day I made substantial progress on the blind hand-stitching.  With the quilt draped over my lap while I sew I definitely appreciate the unseasonably cool weather we're having now.

When I checked on the peaches yesterday, some of them had ripened... but of course the birds had already helped themselves to those.  I harvested the rest of the crop (at least the ones I could reach) and they are currently having to finish up ripening inside on the kitchen counter.  

When Marcie visited in the afternoon she brought me some very tasty "used" cornbread (she'd baked in cheese and chilis) from their dinner the night before. She also delivered a couple of items; she'd asked if I needed anything at the grocery store, and we were low on sugar, needed for feeding the hummingbirds.  (Most of the other stuff could wait.) 

At that point I hadn't yet gotten the last RSVP from our new quilting "group", but once it came in later I was able to send out this e-mail:

Okay, ladies, all RSVPs are now in.  We’re going to try for June 3rd, though we may have to shuffle it to June 17^th; Marcie finds out later this week whether her group has to show up for Jury Duty the next day. IF that happens, and then IF she gets picked for a trial that runs several days, we’ll move it forward 2 weeks (though unfortunately Wanda would not be able to make it that day.)  Start thinking about what project you’re going to work on!  

And in the quilting e-mail department, 

this morning I found this from Monica in my in-box:

Hi all! —-My friend Cynthia Booker (sister quilter) lost her life to cancer recently

Her husband Steve brought ALL of her fabric over this morning 

He said it was 3 or 4 bins —-Well it turned out to be about 10 FULL of fabric

My car is FULL and I will bring it on Wed to the Bees - We can make donation for the Bees

Steve also has a cutting table, a sewing table, 4 sewing machines 

and he does not want to sell but wants to find someone who needs this stuff

I really need to find a new home for this stuff

Monica

When pool guy Aaron came by in the afternoon 

he took care of spider removal for me.  

Even though the cup was out of the way, Murphy's Law is usually lurking nearby, so I did worry that "for some reason" Brownie might go under that small table and knock over the cup.  If the spider had escaped, of course I would have needed to move out of the house until it was located and dispatched.

Speaking of Brownie, yesterday I gave him his chewable meds, the monthly Interceptor Plus (heartworm) and his every-3-months Brevecto (flea and tick.)  While he happily chowed down on the first one, I truly lost count of how many times he spit out the second one.

He was definitely off his feed yesterday; in the afternoon when Latina visited there was still a bit of food left in his dish from the previous afternoon's feeding.  (I never gave him more food yesterday morning.)  And he either threw up a bit or had a little diarrhea at one point in the day (because he chowed down on something dead in the yard?) leaving me a tiny puddle (helpfully not on the carpet) of something smelly to clean up.  However he was perky all day, and when the  alarm went off at 3:00 he was decidedly happy to polish off his dinner.

For my dinner I cooked up the salmon fajita burger I'd gotten at Winco the other day.  It was quite tasty, and since I ate it naked (I had no bun) it wasn't quite as filling so I was sorry that I hadn't gotten two.  Next time!

Naturally I've gotten much better at putting on my boot, but yesterday discovered something "new".  (If Ryan mentioned it on Thursday during my tutorial I missed it.)  While the boot comes in various sizes (mine is a Small) I do have to Velcro it quite a bit to contain everything.  That had been putting the circular bladder off to the side, skewing the plastic plate.  Imagine my surprise <g> when I "accidentally" discovered yesterday that the bladder is just Velcro-ed on, so it can easily be moved to wherever the opening in the plate ends up.  

In the evening I watched some movies on TV, and ended up heading to bed quite late, around 11:30.  Since I wasn't tired I was surprised at the hour, and read until almost midnight.  Still didn't sleep in this morning, but may have logged close to 6 hours.  This morning I'm back at the gym, and this afternoon is my appointment at the chiropractor.  With all the 'funny' walking/limping I've been doing the past month, it's a mini-miracle that my back/hip aren't that unhappy!