Beneath the Wraps

The other day I was driving.  I started out with my sunglasses on.  I would get too dark.  I'd take them off. Sun shows itself.  Sun hides behind the clouds.  Hot, hot, hot.  My ears are cold.   don't need an entire hat - just a band to cover my ears.  Raindrops. Make up your mind! I personally would rather have the raindrops and cooler whether.  I would just like to be able to dress for one or the other and not vacillate back and forth, back and forth.  Please Mr. Sun, go on a long break and do not show yourself until it is over.  And then please Keep your distance.  Thank you.

            Tuesday morning I woke up with a stinging sensation on my left arm as though it has been used as a pincushion.  Why all the pain?  I must have encountered a plant that doesn't like me (most plants don't) or heat rash perhaps?  My arm doesn't appear to have a rash visually, but from the inside, the prickly feeling was driving me bonkers.             Jenna and I had gone to the library.  It wasn't until after I returned that I felt what must have been small cuts on my index finger (just under the knuckle).  Must be from dry skin.  Yesterday I realized it was a sliver of some kind - probably wood.  My left index finger was turning pink. I think I might have gotten it out when I soaked myself and opened up my pores.             In addition to our house trim in need of p...

     The Hallmark Channel has aired a new movie this month. It is called "Ms. Matched"  and I was absolutely thrilled about a book put out by Shawn Roberts character, Ben Reynolds.  I think every girl ought to run out and get this book and take it to heart before she stupidly spends a fortune on ONE NIGHT !  Holy Cow.             The story starts out at a Bridal Expo in which Libby and her business partner, Michelle, are trying to promote their wedding planning skills, along with many others who are promoting cakes, gowns, invitations, what have you.  The wonderful expense of being a bride.             I remember going to a Bridal Expo with my second daughter-in-law.  I was horrified and appalled at the costs and expenses and hoopla and waste.  Ben Reynolds explains that it is possible to create sim...

        It's hard to believe that just over a week I had the heater on just before Memorial weekend - and now?  June 1st hits with high temperatures and warm winds and knocked me into a coma.  Would not have made a good chaperone had I gone with Jenna and her classmates on her first overnight field trip through the school.         The house is in need of new paint - actually, new railing - but paint will be less costly for us at this time.  Roland picked out the forest green I have wanted for each house that we had lived in but never quite got the color right.  Just after we put the first coat on, I wished we would have gone with blue. Jenna picked out a really pretty color - unfortunately not early enough. The green on the house shutters and trim match the railing . It looks more blue in this photo.  It was a steel blue before - a VERY faded steel blue.  Guess it's ...

         Jenna has seen some English-speaking programs dubbed in Spanish, but not many foreign language translated into English.   She said she tried to watch “The Snow Queen” and wasn’t impressed.         Last  night we watched “Help, I Shrunk the Family”.   I don’t know if I had heard of it before.   Jenna has watched all the “Honey, I Shrunk the kids”, “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid” and “Honey, I Shrunk ourselves” I assumed that this was related.   It’s not.   Not Disney.   Not American.   Not English speaking – which is okay.   Everybody should have an opportunity to be entertained in his or her own tongue.            Apparently I’m a theatre snob.   I think I might have picked some of it up from my brother Corey.   I get bugged when the mouth and speech are not in sync.   More than that I real...

My mom brought her Saturn SL1 brand new.  Corey, Kayla and my mom all had Saturns.  I took a picture of them - each standing by his or her car.  They took it to Saturn.  I don't know what Saturn did with it.       Roland and I had borrowed my mom's car on more than one occasion to go to Arizona.  It was just more reliable than anything we ever owned - except for the Saturn Ion we had for less than two years.  I think we have taken that to Arizona as well.       Saturn used to send reminders to their cliental to let them know that it was time for their car to be serviced.  My mom took hers in (or had Corey take it in) to be serviced each year, until they went out of business.       After we put my mom into assisted living, Roland and I asked if we could buy mom's car.  We didn't know it came with a personality - that it was somehow possessed.   ...

        I really enjoyed "Everything on a Waffle" by Polly Horvath.   I had read it and posted about it a few years back ( here ).   Last week I started reading "The Vacation" by same author.   It is hilarious.        Henry lives with his free-spirited mom and his dad who works for Fuller's Brushes and is away from home a lot as he is making sales.        His mother gets the notion that she wants to go to Africa and serve as a missionary - which her dad finds odd as they are not even religious.  She looks into Mormonism to see if she can be sent to Africa that way, but when it doesn't work out, she ends up going to Africa anyway to help build a school house and just tells everybody that she is a Mormon missionary.         Henry's dad reluctantly heads to Africa with her, but they leave Henry at home with his two middle-aged aunts who don't s...