25 years ago today

Today is Don-Mike's 25th birthday. I told him we were both feeling better today than we did 25 years ago. Don told Don-Mike he wasn't eating steak that day. Neither was I, for that matter. I was one sick woman. And my baby wasn't doing too good either. But 25 years later we were sitting on the patio at Deer Cliff Inn celebrating Dm's birthday. It was a little chilly, but I did see a mosquito. One lonely little mosquito.

I don't have any current pictures, but this is a good one that was taken at Glacier National Park in July of 2008.

Happy Birthday, Don-Mike.

Party pooper

I am such a party pooper. I said I'd do the Pampered Chef party. I love Pampered Chef. I love to GO to parties, I just don't like to GIVE parties, grrr. I was hoping to reschedule this party, but I'm a week off. I don't have to work next Thursday, it's the week after, Thursday, Sept. 3. Labor Day is Sept. 7, sigh. It also means that I have to cook Sunday.

I hate always being tired & never feeling well. I spend a lot of time vegging in front of the computer. If I had my way, I'd never leave the house. But ... luckily, I don't. I have to get out.

Tonight the whole north end of the valley smells like one big bonfire. It has since last night. There was fire up Cub River yesterday afternoon across the road from Deer Cliff Inn.

I finished Life Among the Lava Beds by Leonard Stephenson. A fun memoir of "growing up in rural Idaho in the 1950s." He describes my Uncle Carl's family as "devoutly religious," but says my cousin Richard had no conscience. I think Richard has outgrown the no conscience.

I also picked up Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich last night. I was going to go to bed at a fairly decent hour, but knowing what I'm like when I pick up a book, I should've known better. I knew it was time to go to bed when I started looking forward into the book. I didn't look too far, just found a piece of paper to mark my place & put the book down. It was 2:30, by the time I put the book down.

I went to bed, & as I was getting comfy, I remembered I hadn't finished my evening chores. I got up & did those by the dim, dying light over the stove & finally got back to bed at 3 a.m.

Today, I added the books I've read in 2009 to a bookshelf on my Goodreads shelf. I have only read 10 books so far this year. But compared to the last few years, that is a bunch, LOL

I'm off to finish Plum Spooky. I have Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees out from the library & today I picked up #3 in the Elm Creek Quilters series by Jennifer Chiaverini, Cross-Country Quilters. Mother listened to The Secret Life of Bees from the Idaho Library for the Handicapped & liked it.