Hello on Sunday

Dear Friends,

Everything is back normal in our house. I was the first one up on Saturday morning. I couldn't believe it when Linda comes downstairs at 7:30 AM and says : "Let's go to the farmer's market!"
We headed off the the parking lot of the Berkshire Mall where the Farmer's Market is now being held. After a short perusal of what they had to offer, Linda decided that the prices were too high for all the flowers which we wanted to purchase. We left the Mall, and went to Home Depot, Walmart, Price Chopper in Pittsfield, Stop & Shop on Merrill Road, Stop and Shop on Dan Fox drive, Price chopper in Lenox, and finally Burgner's on Dalton Division Road. My role in the whole adventure was to lift heavy bags of Miracle Grow Potting soil, and load flowers in my car so that they would not be crushed.
I chatted with one lady in Walmart who saw me with a cart full of treasures as I was resting on a stool by the check out. She told me that she leaves her husband home when she decides to go plant shopping. There is no way that this frail woman could have lifted up those 2.5 cubic feet of potting soil.
When we arrived home Linda placed the flowers in barrels and flower beds where she thought that they would look the best. I thought that this was the end of manual labor for the day. Not! She put on gardening gloves, gathered her favorite gardening tools, and got right to work planting the flowers. She was like a possessed woman. My role was to be at her beck and call to get her potting soil, throw away the containers which flowers come in, etc. She filled 6 barrels of flowers, planted two perennials in one of our multiple flower beds, and two flower containers under the windows of our storage shed. We still have the planters on the deck to take care of, but that can't happen until the deck staining project is over. We also have some flower pots which will go on the deck to be filled, but at least we made a little dent in the flower planting on Saturday.
Linda was one aching buckaroo when we decided to end the flower planting.
I am really going to try and be quiet today so that she can sleep as long as she wants. I am so hoping that the telephone doesn't ring until after 10 AM.

Linda had fun at the local Dancing with the Stars Hospice Fundraiser which took place at the Country Club of Pittsfield. She said the food wonderful from the appetizers through to dessert.

I was home alone, but it was okay because I finished savoring a book, and I had a chance to relax.

Sports -- I didn't go to bed a happy sports' fan because both the Boston Bruins, and the Red Sox lost their respective contests. If the Red Sox had won their game, they would have been in first place in their division.

Weather -- We are in for a mostly cloudy day for this Sunday. The long term forecast for this coming week has a chance of rain in the forecast right through this coming weekend. I am hoping that the rain holds off each day until the evening.

Social Calendar -- We do not have a free day today. We are off to a supper time cookout at a friend's home. I am hoping that the cookout doesn't become a cook in.
Every day next week through Saturday, either one of us or both of us are booked into some activity. Some days we have more than one function booked in.

I did forget to mention that Linda got a clean bill of health from the Wound Clinic when she went to her Friday afternoon appointment. The VNA had signed off on her earlier in the week. She is now free to return to her normal activities. It will be so nice to not have to work our social calendar around bandage changing by the VNA, and appointments at the Would Clinic.

News / Politics - Women in the United States think that they have a difficult time competing and working with men, but how about the Saudi women who had pictures taken of her driving a car in Saudia Arabia. She was detained by the authorities because it is illegal for women to drive cars in at country. That is repression at it's finest!

The deadly bombings continue in Baghdad, and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan the bombings took place in a hospital. How sick is that?
The alleged new Al Qaeda leader also is criticizing NATO's role in the Arab world.

An Irish town in Moneygal, Ireland claims to be the place where President Obama has Irish roots. The town council even spent a few dollars to spruce up the little town where the President's ancestors came from. The people of the village are hoping that our President stops into the town on one of his world wide tours.
One day people like Donald Trump is calling for the President's birth certificate, and now we find out that President Obama has Irish roots.

Maybe we should invite the President to the August 7, 2011 Pittsfield Ethnic Fair and he can hang out at the Irish Sister City Booth, and the Irish American Club booth. The Irish American Club President Kevin Cahill might even let him pull a pint of Guinness. He can even cook a few Irish Bangers at the Irish Sister Committee's booth. He will want the recipes for our Irish Whiskey Cake, and my Irish Soda Bread for sure.

Well, I have to read the Sunday newspapers!
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad