Just a Waste...Or Was It?

 

I'm going to keep this one brief.  I've had a headache all afternoon long.  We've just finished eating supper.  I opted to put the Ham Pot Pie in the oven and while it was baking, I made a tuna salad luncheon for myself for tomorrow at Kate's.  I prepared tuna salad for John to have if he chooses.  Ours were not the same sort of salads.  Mine has tomato, egg, lettuce and a dab of mayonnaise with lots of black pepper (accidental but I love pepper so not a problem).  His is tuna salad made with apple and pickle relish the way he likes it and we almost always eat it.  I added baby carrots and a cup of guacamole to my salad.  I probably ought to put another cup with it since I know that Taylor likes it and the number of children I shall be 'watching' has doubled since Thursday.   I also grabbed a packet of malted crackers with peanut butter.  If I remember, I'll get a Diet Dr. Pepper out and add that to it all.  I think I'll have plenty of food and nothing (except the guacamole cup) that anyone is likely to beg me to share, lol.

We woke to rain and thunderstorms this morning.  I've been planning for the past month since it warmed up to wear my lovely cotton blue and white printed dress that is loose and flowy and long and beautiful.  It has rained every single Sunday, so I've put the dress back in the closet.  It's thin enough that I think if I got soaked it would be uncomfortably immodest for me.  And besides, all my sandals have polyurethane soles which means once wet my feet will slip and slide dangerously inside the sandal.  No incentive in the weather to wear either the dress or the sandals.

But no complaints over the rain.  It was hot and this storm cooled things right down to a lovely 74F which was lovely.  

We went by Kate's to see Taylor...Well I might as well have waited.  She's staying until Thursday at least, and I'll lay odds it stretches into next weekend as well.  I'll have Bella on Wednesday morning as well but only for a few hours.  The kids wanted my attention today and they got steadily louder in an attempt to outdo one another.

I've had a headache almost all afternoon.  I confess I was longing for some peace and quiet.  But John was in the mood to be chatty, singing nonsense songs when he wasn't talking.  I thought longingly of the solitary afternoon drives I'll have coming home, lol.  Amazing how God can give me a glimpse of what days might be like and the possible redemption at the end of each day.  Maybe I just needed that glimpse of all the possibilities to do well with this season.

When we came home, we were hungry though John had picked up a reasonably decent lower calorie snack at the grocery when he went in to get cat food.  Sassy was out this morning, so we had to go in.  We knew the fuss we'd left at home and didn't either of us relish facing her upset when we came home without food, lol.    I put the ham pot pie in the oven to heat.

I've often admired the way that Annabel decorates her pasties and pies with lovely pastry scrolls and flowers.  Yesterday morning, I took the dough scraps and made a pretty little flower on top of my pot pie.  

When I was ready to serve this evening, I admired it for about half a second and then I cut into it and spoiled the whole.  I thought, "Oh!  John will never know how pretty it was.  What a waste!"  But then I realized that I'd made it pretty.  I'd admired it yesterday and admired it today when I baked it and it gave me pleasure.  How could that be wasted?  I'd enjoyed it.  

The opening photo is one I took yesterday.  I'd stepped out to the back steps and was startled by this beauty.  Isn't it just lovely?  That rose bush has no idea what color it is. I think it was used as a grafting rose.  Different portions of it bloom different colors.  Sometimes coral, sometimes orange, sometimes pale pink and now this stunning, lovely coral pink.  I wonder if I might cut it once it's done blooming and root this portion.  Do you think I'd get a whole rose bush like this one.

See you all next week.

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