I have been enjoying the beautiful sunny days this weekend. Yesterday Teresa and I and Grandma and Grandpa Larry went to see Lucille in Kaizer Oregon. It was a beautiful drive with good conversation along the way. We arrived around 11 a.m. and enjoyed showing each other our various projects. We took our finished quilts and she showed us a quilt she had made, as well as several unfinished projects which she gave us to finish, along with some material and quilt books and quilting frame and thread etc. I am always so inspired at Lucille’s. My favorite thing to look at in her house is her beautiful paintings she has painted. I could look at them every day and not grow tired of them. There were a few I hadn’t seen before. It is a long term goal to someday try to learn how to paint. I really think I could learn flowers and maybe other things if I had a good teacher and was patient enough to keep trying when I wasn’t good in the beginning. (That will be the real challenge.) I doubt I could ever do beach scenes or landscapes or buildings. In the meantime I will quilt!

When we got home I realized I was going to have to clear out some cupboards to make room for all I had brought home so today I moved the CDs out of the cupboard and put in two more shelves and put all my stuff away. I still have two empty shelves.

We also bought some flowers so I spent some time last night planting them. I still have four more to plant and the roses to take out which sounds very hard. I like the flowers but not the actual gardening part! Lol

Chris is reading and reading his material for his new job. He has to have six chapters read by Tuesday. He also enjoyed packing up all his transcription supplies from working from home to deliver tomorrow. Well, he probably didn’t actually enjoy the packing but the fact it represented that HE DOESN’T HAVE TO DO TRANSCRIPTION ANY MORE! A good side of that is that it will free up some space in Jonathan’s old room so we can move the computer from Laura’s room into there when she moves home.

We also had Chris’s worship team doing worship today so we started the day at 7:00ish at the church for practice. I had a hard time today with the words but I guess they will have to forgive me. This church is pretty laid back about that issue. It was an inspiring message today about working together and loving each other and expecting God to work in and through us especially this coming summer. The message I believe I heard from God is to anticipate what God is going to do, expect it, receive it and embrace it. So often we forget to really expect God to do something. Perhaps we don’t want to be disappointed.

I have the next week off and am going to be painting the bathroom and sewing some aprons for a lady at work. She saw the ones I did for Longview Surgical and decided she wanted some for her granddaughters. But for now I am going to go finish my book…. Have a good week.