June 10

So now it's another month gone by. School is out and the weather is already horrendous temperature-wise. We've already gone above 100º and it's been in the upper 90's all week.

I went through all the magazines and kits I got from the lady in Saginaw and freecycled lots of them. It's nice to not have all that mess in the bedroom, but I'm never sure how to organize it all into something I can find later. I still have all that floss to put back into my floss boxes, and then pack the material, buttons, etc. into some sort of system. It was nice going through all the magazines and looking for things I may, well probably not, do. I don't know how you can amass that much stuff.

The garden is lovely, and I am canning tomatoes every other day. Too many but it is nice to sit outside reading and grab a handful of cherry tomatoes to eat! The pot on the left has my lavender. It smells so good! The rest of the herbs are doing poorly but the mint is growing well.

Amber, Wendy's best and longest friend was taken to the hospital this morning with contractions. She is 19 weeks along and they stitched her and she is now, as Wendy says, "hanging upside down" in the hospital bed. I dearly hope she comes through okay as this baby is so very precious to them. She will most likely be on bed rest until they see how she is doing. This is truly in God's hands.

Robert Jr. graduated Tuesday from high school. When will the principals and school board remember that it is THEIR day and not go on and on about themselves? "When I taught science...". It's about the kids folks! The salutatorian's speech was all in idioms and would have been good if we could have heard it. The people behind us just chatted away with no regard for the work that went into the speeches. These are wonderful kids who deserve to have some respect at their ceremony. It was at the Ft. Worth Convention Center so we got to go downtown FW where it is busy and exciting! I love Ft. Worth's community spirit. It's a small city and they are able to have lots of cultural things, a vibrant downtown, the Stockyards, and lots of funky old restaurants.

Tomorrow we are going up to Richardson for dinner with our friends and John and Steve are going to one of those Focus groups about cars. He never usually ventures out that far but I think the $125 cash offering had something to do with it. We can take that on our trip next week.

And that's about all for this week. Pictures of the cabinets tomorrow. They are coming along nicely albeit slowly.