Hello! It’s Tuesday, can you believe it? It just goes to show that even a 3 day weekend goes by too fast when you’re doing great stuff. Here’s a recap of my weekend.

Friday night. You know.

Also on Friday night, Mexican Train. We chose trains in red, white and blue in honor of the Memorial Day weekend.

Saturday we did some stuff at home in the morning and my new Baggallini Everywhere bag arrived. Yes, Kym blogged about hers on Thursday and I immediately ordered one for myself. I love it already – it’s lightweight and has lots of pockets and plenty of room. We went to a pow wow in the afternoon. I always love the music and the dancing at those events.

We came home to another beautiful night on the deck.

Sunday morning coffee on the deck with Mason. We bring him outside occasionally in the evening and he’s really good about staying in one of our laps. He looked so forlorn on Sunday when I headed out that I decided to see if he would stay with me in the daytime, too. He did pretty well for about 20 minutes and then he tried to make a break for it over the back of the couch and I put him inside.

I went to a baby shower in the afternoon and then we treated ourselves to lobsters in celebration of the first weekend of the summer. They were fabulous!

  

Monday was rainy and chilly. Jess and Hannah came over to finalize plans for Patrick’s upcoming graduation party (I know. I can’t believe he’s graduating from high school either.) And then we all went out for pizza and salad. It was fun to spend time with our girls.

I also finished the book Shadow Land, giving me my first Bingo square of the summer. I spent some time with my card making plans for some of the other squares, too. Only 24 more before I get my cover all!

How was your weekend?

It’s a cliche but I have to say it: why oh why do the weekends go by so quickly? At least I can say that we got a lot done this weekend.

For instance, I grocery shopped.

Now. This is not a typical assortment of products I would buy. However, I am headed out of town this morning for a library conference and Dale will be on his own for a couple of days. These are the things he specifically requested I purchase. Yep. Triscuits. Cracker Barrel Cheese. Hot dogs. Burgers. Macaroni & Cheese. Cookies. That’s my guy.

Luckily on Friday night I was here to provide and we had some delicious pimento cheese along with pepperoni and cheese straws and other goodies. We were out on the deck and it was warm. It felt like full blown summer, I’ll tell ya, and I loved it.

Sometimes when we’re out on the deck at night we bring Mason out. He is strictly an indoor kitty but we feel bad that he’s in the house alone and he’s actually very well behaved out there. The deal is that he has to stay on the furniture and, despite the fact that his brain is the size of a walnut, he seems to get there. So far, so good, anyway.

On Saturday I was on a mission to get some outside work done and that’s what we did. We bought soil for the new raised bed along with lots of flowers and vegetable plants, too. I worked on the container gardens and Dale did some heavy lifting in the raised beds. We called it quits around 4, though, and settled on the deck for cocktails and shrimp on the grill. It wasn’t as warm as Friday night, though, and we eventually came in and caught up on some TV – Madame Secretary, to be exact.

We got up early Sunday morning and headed back to the garden store for a few more things, including basil, lettuce and some herbs to go along with the tomatoes, squash and jalapenos we bought on Saturday. We got everything planted quickly and I just love the promise of this photo – so much delicious food to come if all goes according to plan.

We spent the afternoon at a graduation party for the daughter of our friend’s Tom and Anne and then came home to relax on the deck and enjoy the waning hours of the weekend.

It was time well spent but it was time that passed much too quickly.

How was your weekend?

This weekend involved the usual things – Friday Night Snacks, Saturday errands, Mexican Train with friends – you know the drill around here. But this weekend also involved something really special: the wedding of my cousin Len’s daughter Megan to the love of her life, Jim. It was definitely the highlight of our weekend!

The weather was less than ideal for an outdoor wedding as it was windy and rainy and cold but everything was lovely inside. And warm.

Megan, bless her heart, had a love story theme for the wedding and this librarian felt right at home. The place cards were bookmarks, the tables were decorated with paper flowers made from book pages, and the favors were cookies made to look like little books. It was adorable and clever and perfectly wonderful.

The rain did let up enough for them to take some outside family and wedding party photos. I snapped this one through the window from where we were sitting – warm and dry on a nice comfy couch – but I love how it captures the moment. You can see everyone having a drink and a snack, just as we were doing inside. And boy were those pre dinner snacks fabulous! Chicken quesadillas, mini mugs of clam chowder, buffalo chicken purses, bruschetta, and mini ramekins of baked macaroni and cheese.  Everything was delicious and there was plenty of it, too.

Dale snapped this picture of Megan with Hannah and I and you can see Jim in the back there, too. Megan looked so beautiful, truly like a princess and it was wonderful to see so much joy on everyone’s faces.

And here I am with my cousin, Len, who has become more like a brother to me than a cousin. I am so grateful for his presence in my life and felt so blessed to celebrate this amazing day with my family. It was a great way to spend Mother’s Day, I can tell you that.

Hope your weekend was great, too!

You know, every weekend it’s the same. I tell myself on Sunday to get my Monday morning post ready. Sit down and do it, I say.

And then I don’t.

It’s not that I’m procrastinating, it’s that there are Sunday things to do and those things don’t usually involve screen time. And before I know it Sunday night has arrived and I’m tired and too lazy to write a post. Monday morning comes and the post isn’t done and I wake up and think, crap! I’ve got to get that blog post written.

This morning I realized something very important:

Your day won’t be ruined if my blog doesn’t post Monday morning at 6am. 

Duh.

All of this is just a really long way of saying that Monday morning posts may not, in fact probably won’t, be ready at 6. It might be 7 or even later and I know you will be just fine.

Anyway. Here’s my past weekend in some photos and words.

Friday. Cinco de Mayo. Yummy snacks that included homemade guacamole, pico de gallo and quesadillas. Margaritas, too, of course.

Saturday. A day of hanging out, reading and some knitting. Late in the afternoon we headed to Plymouth. We took a beer drinking selfie for ya.

Sunday. After a lazy morning we spent the day building a second raised bed so that we can expand our vegetable garden this year. Like these types of projects so often do, it took longer than we anticipated.

We ended the weekend with a great visit from our girls, Jessica and Hannah. No pictures of that so you’ll just have to imagine snacks and drinks on the deck.

How was your weekend?