How come doughnuts and garage sales go hand in hand? I promised Jesse to check out the garage sales this morning and even though we both woke up a little late for truly getting the good stuff, we checked out a few. Friday mornings are the best before the goodies are picked over and those people that are involved in the 'work week' jump in there on Saturday.

Had to go by Daylight Doughnuts and took some to Mother between stops.

I bought a basket of home grown tomatoes.
Jesse bought a pair of red stilletos with rhinestones on the straps and long red ribbons to tie around the ankles. She looks like she is trying to walk on stilts but is determined to master " the walk".

Why is the people of my age seek good food and her age seeks life's courtiere challenges?
It is always fun to spend a day with my precious granddaughter.

Here it is, my RV that I bought from a dealer in Portland sight unseen but I am intimately acquainted with its features. I have wanted this for years! Since it is only 22 feet long, it should be very flexible for me and Dean and a 3/4 bed to include the grandkids on some excursions.

We pick it up in Portland, OR on our way to visit Grant later this month and there is so much beautiful country to see in the mountains and on the coast.

The great thing is that we don't have to get a motel room or stay with friends or family. We will be equipped like a turtle with our own little shelter.

I am so excited!

Taking a walk through the neighborhood I couldn't help but be seduced by the wonderful smells of summer blossoms. The boulevarde has magnolias, sweet smelling. Reminds me of a perfune I dosed behind along my neck when I was very young and inclined to add fragrances to my body. In the early spring we have the yellow jasmine, daffadils and those wonderful hyacinths that are almost too sweet smelling to bring into the house (but we do it anyway). I have two fairly young hydrangea bushes and I an anxious for them to mature so that I can replace the silk ones in my basket with real blossoms. These wonderful plants generously bloom all summer long.

Okay, it's not California or Florida where they have blossoms all year long, but I think we appreciate our plants more here in zone 7. I love the rich spring and summer smells and colors.

We that live in the southern states have the greatest life of all.
We can be silly, sentimental or serious. It's all okay.

This afternoon I am going to tour Heritage Village where the Historical Society has brought together a turn of century community including farm house, farm implement buildings, blacksmith shop, train depot, general store all surronded by heirloom plants and cedar shaving pathways. It will remind me of my grandparents farm and how Bigmama would wring over us kids trampling her flowers. We'll drag Mother along and later she will be glad she went. It is getting her out of the chair that's the difficult part.

I was sugared, kneaded and heated all in the name of massage therapy! Never had sugar rubbed all over my body before. It was large granules soaked in orange-vanilla oil and with no one available to lick it off, I headed to the shower. That was followed by a one hour massage. Every knot worked out and the body purified, I was instructed to drink lots of water the rest of the day.

Dean thought I had been treated like a ham---the sugar-cured kind. I intended to spend the rest of the day doing nothing but it didn't quite work out that way.
Earlier in the day we had gone to work out and came home to move large pieces of furniture. I knew if i got a strain the massage could work it out.

Last week I actually went to work at a real job and got stressed a few times. A good reason to not do that again for awhile.
Anyway I am making an effort to stay supple and 'chilled out' for the remainder of this day and avoiding any stressful events. I think of it like a economic plan for emotional well being.

We went to Mountain View and listened to to pickin' n singin' on the courthouse square. Lots of folks from all different states were there. Mother went with us and we stayed overnight at a Bed n' Breakfast. Rained in Searcy all weekend. We plan to go see Star Trek movie this afternoon.

After working at hospital last week, it seems odd to have spare time..maybe some housework is in order. I gained three pounds since I didn't get to work out last week. I'm thinking seriously about going vegetarian (except for hot dogs).

I recall a joke about risking one good eye and the song "one-eyed purple people eater". Anyway the reason for the one-eyed reference is that I had cataract surgery in L.R. this morning and they covered it with a patch which I go back to have off tomorrow. The surgery was a snap---no discomfort at all. Of course my head is still numb from my eye to the top of my crown on the right side. It feels real odd to scratch your head and not feel anything.

Between teeth implants and eye surgery, I feel as if I am making regular events of out-patient surgery. Looking on the bright side, I should be able to eat and see both by year end!

Today I did it! I met with the publisher of Searcy Living and she agreed for me to write for the magazine starting with the website. I'm going to be an official writer My first article will be about Searcy's farmer market.
Gotta get to work...