Tulips, Tulips, Tulips

What a weekend we had. All I can say is Ooo-lah-lah!!!
Friday my friend Diana was over and we asked if she had ever been to Rozengarde to see the tulip garden. She had not so off we went! Frank did not want to go very bad but we conned him into it by saying pretty please. It worked. We saw myriad colors of red, yellow, purple, orange, pink and all others in between. Because the tulips were two weeks late in blooming we had the rare opportunity to see the other plants in bloom. The azaleas, rhodedenrons, daffodils, hyacinths, primroses, and flowering cherries were all in perfect blooming form!
Sunday morning Kali and Gabe called to ask if we wanted to go to the tulips and meet Gabe's two sisters, one of which was visiting from San Diego with her two daughters. Her name was Lita and her daughters were Jennifer and Katrina (as in the hurricane).
Maug is the youngest sister in the family who lives in Seattle. She and her husband Frank are both attorneys. She is retired and home with her 3 yr. old Iris and 1 yr. old boy whose name I can't remember. We had a wonderful afternoon with them.
MONDAY, Cindy Boswell (Miller) called and said, "I haven't been to see the tulips. Would you like to go?" I'm a glutton for beautiful flowers so off we went again. The fields were muddy from the overnight rain but no rain fell while we examined each and every bloom. Afterwards we lunched on Shrimp Omlet at our favorite restaurant, Calico Cupboard in Mt. Vernon. Oh the taste buds are sooo happy!

Blizzard of 2011

Oregon

We took a quick 2 1/2 day trip to Oregon to see my brother Ron and his wife Betty. They had ripe blueberries to pick. I had just had Chemo Friday morning and we left right after. I didn't feel all that great with back pain whenever I did much of anything. Ron has chicken so had tons of eggs all in the fridge in containers not washed. Well, that night I could not find my benedryl to make me sleepy so I couldn't go to sleep until 1 in the morning.

Jared Marchant and his fiancee, Peggy Fowler

Jared and Peggy came up for a quick weekend of Kyaking in Anacortes where they also do some whale watching. I wasn't feeling to great, but told them they were on their own. They took us out to eat at a Mexican restaraunt, and I could hardly eat anything. I took a big doggy bag home and then a few days later, after trying to eat it, threw it away. It was too acidic for my mouth sores.

They went with us to church at 1:00, then we all came home. They changed and packed and visited until 4 pm and then took off for Portland.

Views of Beautiful Puget Sound

A couple of weeks ago I wasn't feeling to great, but the weather was gorgeous. I asked Frank to drive out to Camano Island up on the bluffs and see if we could get some pictures of the sound. We even got some mountains in the background even though I was just using my I-Pod touch camera.

Ady and Owen's Birthday Party

We went to Jungle Playland in Mount Vernon. It is a wonderful place for children to play safely. It has ball pits, long slides and Space Maze for children to play tag. They serve pizza and have birthday rooms, so we had the birthday celebration there. Michelle made the cupcakes. Owen was cupcakes in the shape of a baseball mitt with a cupcake in the middle decorated like a ball. Ady's was shaped like a muilti-color rainbow. And of course, they were, as usual excellent tasting.

Colin is wearing one of the super hero capes I made for the grandkids.  I made Ady a princess cape and Owen and Rhees, Batman capes and will make a superman one for Parker before David and Rachel leave. Didn't take hardly any pictures of Ady and Owen, who were the birthday kids. I was sewing on snaps for all the capes. Rachel told me that Rhees has one with velcro and never wears it because it scratches his neck. So it had to be snaps, which every child could snap his very own.

 She saw Camron and was ready to smile for HIM!

Grandpa loves holding Ady, his little princess.

New Sidewalk Installed

 Cement truck arrives. It was a big deal for the neighborhood kids. They were all looking out the window to see what the commotion was. A cement truck is very, very noisy!

 I thought I had these in order, but this is the poured conrete with the supports all finished.

The first day they slather the conrete with, of all things, molasses. It eats up the concrete and when they wash it off that afternoon, it becomes a pebble rock like finish.

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The brown you see if the remnants of the molasses they slathered on the concrete.

 The workers beginning to pour the concrete in the prepared area.

 Waiting for more concrete for the wheelbarrows.

 Looking at the leveled area to prepa.re for pouring concrete

 The supports which will give the sidewalk a curved appearance.

Taken after all the supports have been removed. We should have done this years ago.