I had a picture framed at Michael's at 40% off. I had fun looking all over the store while I was getting the picture framed. I couldn't find a thing that I needed.
Then I spent over an hour at the party place, Party America. I shopped for decorations for the 50th birthday party for our son Bill and daughter-in-law Cindy (Ron's wife) on June 21. We should have planned a luau since that theme had tons of decorations. Someone said they thought several churches were using that theme for Bible School this year. They even had grass skirts. I wonder how I would look in one of those?? I'm not sure what you wear underneath. I decided to just stick with "Over the Hill"...... I bought a large helium tank that will fill 50 latex balloons. I didn't check out until I had seen every item in the store. What a fun place to shop!
I didn't want to take time out to eat so I ate my lunch which I had prepared and brought in a lunch box, along with cold bottled water, along with some snacks. I would snack between shopping.
I stopped at the Christian Mission store to see if they had a used movie screen, and they didn't. But I found a great bargain for $5 - a food dehydrator! It looks much like the one pictured here. It has several trays to hold the food and has an electric fan underneath to circulate air to the food. I want to try drying some small figs to use to make fig newtons like Mama Wilson used to make. I hope I remember how she made them. Last year I borrowed a dehydrator from my neighbor, just like the one I bought, to dry some oriental persimmons and those bright orange-red slices were so pretty. Not only good to eat but to added to holiday wreaths. When Jim asked what I planned to do with this "gadget", I explained to him why every cook needs one of these!
Then I went to Office Depot to buy a pint can of rubber cement. You can no longer buy these big containers anyplace but in office supply places. I guess it's too popular for "glue sniffing" parties. Think of the "high" a group of kids could get with a pint. A can will last me a long time and I refill my small bottle to use for art projects. I needed the glue for 2 big photo posters I am making for the party.
I have learned to make posters and banners and it's really neat how you can print a big poster from a photo. The image is printed on 4 or 9 sheets of photo paper and you trim the edges and put it on a poster board to get the large poster. You can buy whole sheets of photo paper with adhesive backing but that's so expensive. I just use rubber cement on the back of photo paper and if I need to reposition it, it's easy to move around.
This all took place yesterday....on Tuesday.
Today - I went for a 30 minute walk in my neighborhood with my friend Pat. Then back home to read the paper, check my email, edit a membership list from DAR, and then it was time to make some lunch. After lunch, Jim went with me to the playground to water some of the 36 trees we planted over the past year. We could only water trees for an hour today. It takes over two hours to water all of them. Fertilizer is very expensive but it's worth the price. Those trees are full of healthy green leaves and growing so fast. There was a nice breeze and we had 2 hoses to use. Then we went to the old Folsom house to water flowers and fertilize 2 chiqueapin trees I planted in April. Then back home in time for me to bake an angel food cake (for us) and a coconut cake to take to a luncheon tomorrow.
Then at 5 p.m. we left to go to church supper. I stayed for Bible study and Jim and James came home. Then Jim went back at 7 for choir practice. We almost never miss going to church on Wed. night. We enjoy the food and fellowship with friends there.
What started out as a lazy day was a very productive one. But there were no scheduled times to do things and this I enjoyed. Tomorrow I will have to plant the palm tree I grew from seed. I kept thinking about that throughout the day. And I forgot to water my plants in the potting shed.
Oh, I'll think about that tomorrow. (Jim calls me Scarlet for that reason!)
P.S. Tomorrow is not a free day until after 3 p.m. I'll be up and running around 6 a.m.
