Cake and Flowers

My computer is fixed! Whoohoo to that! It had to spend last night in the hospital. Well, actually in a garage since that is where my computer guy works from. It had several bugs and I am glad to be rid of them. He also added some more ram?? or something that will make it go faster. I am all for speed, so I told him to add it to it. I can't remember what he called it. As you can tell I failed in the technology department. It is moving faster though, and whatever he added cost $40. Getting rid of the bugs was extra of course!


Yesterday was my birthday. My nephew's wife asked me over for supper and she had baked me a cake. Pretty isn't it? They only put 3 candles on it since they didn't want the Fire Department responding...or maybe 3 was all she had! Whichever, it was good and she had homemade ice cream to go with it. Now that was good stuff!

On my last post I had left Cliff in charge and he didn't even stop by. Gee thanks Cliff. It's 20 minutes in the naughty chair for you!

Saturday I helped plant some flowers at the Veteran's Memorial down by the courthouse. Several people were supposed to come by to help. I wasn't sure that I would even get to go until that morning. I went down and took some extra gloves in case anyone needed them. The man who was in charge of it was there with his truck and he had the flowers and mulch that had been donated, plus some tools to dig with. The others who promised to come did not show up and he really wasn't able to do any work. I set in and pulled weeds and then dug up the one spot that is in the front and needed it the worse. Then a reporter from the newspaper came and she used a pair of my gloves and she jumped right in to help out. We didn't have any water and the plants had to be watered. So they left to go to her house, which was nearby, to get water and I set out the flowers. When they came back I had about 2/3's of that area set out. After we got them set out then we put mulch around them and watered them. It looks pretty don't you think? It's not a very big area at all and the 4 corners have dirt and shrubbery/flowers. I may go back and do some upkeep on it from time to time from now on. There was oodles of cigarette butts that people had tossed in there. Made me so mad and I wished some not-so-nice things on each one that had tossed one in. We picked lots of them out but many remained. People have no respect. I would like to get a couple of plants like the ones in front there to add where a couple had died on the left side. That would make it look better. At least it is pretty now for Memorial Day.