FOs and randomnesses

Since it's April 22 and we still have substantial snowbanks, I thought I'd photo Henslowe outside. 

The color really isn't correct on any of these pictures but this one is exceptionally dark.

I love everything about this shawl.  Well, excluding the bind off which felt like it took as long to do as the rest of the shawl...

 

 

 

But the bind off is a big part of what makes it so pretty and interesting.

 

 



Also finished is 2nd DGD's Potato Chip Scarf.  It was fun to do because she asked me for it and I was happy to make it.  And she said it is "bootiful"!

On the weather front, this is our backyard.  Yes.  Still with the snow everywhere.  Snow forecast for Wednesday.  But!  Temps in the 50s and 60s by the weekend.  WooHoo!!

We had so much fun at our anniversary party a week ago.  I'll post about that when it's closer to the real date...

38 years ago...

DH and I were married. It was an unusually beautiful day for early May. Quite warm and oh so sunny.

We had a very small wedding. Just the immediate family. I had my sister for matron of honor and he had his brother for best man.

Our pastor, at the time, had a wonderful singing voice and he sang for us. It might be written down somewhere what song it was but I have no idea right now.

I do have wonderful memories of things that you don't write down...my dad walking me down the aisle, us saying our vows, the kiss afterwords!

38 years. Some ups and some downs (they just made us stronger) but overall very good years!

Where'd that time go??

I just realized that it's my blogoversary today! I've been doing this for 2 years now. Wow. Time flies....

We had 42 little hobgoblins on Halloween. They were so sweet. They all said "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you". We had the usual princesses, space people and witches but we had a couple that had homemade outfits. One was an Indian maiden and the other was Moses with the Ten Commandments. What original ideas!

Today was the day I was hoping to cut down the flower beds for the winter. It is the perfect day for it but I'm stuck taking DH's pickup in for repairs and waiting a couple hours for that to get done...hopefully there will be another day in the 50s soon!

36th Wedding Anniversary

So today is our wedding anniversary. Yup, 36 years and yes, I WAS in elementary school when I got married. Ha! DH usually says it feels more like double the amount of years. He's missed so far today and hasn't said it yet. Maybe 72 sounds like just too many!

We were out on Saturday evening for a nice supper in Devils Lake at Felix's. We both had BBQ ribs. Yummy. We were thinking that today could be a zoo at work and wanted to be sure of observing the day even if it was early. So today was busy but not a zoo and we are probably going to go out for supper at our local cafe. It's pretty good food and best of all I won't have to cook it OR clean up after. I like cooking but the cleaning up part is for the birds.

3rd DS remembered our anniversary and one SIL so that isn't too bad. I'm thinking 1st & 2nd DSs will maybe feel a little embarrassed when they realize they forgot. Either that or it will slip their mind completely. Entirely possible.

It started out as a grey damp day but the sun is shining a little now so that is good. 36 years ago it was a wonderful, sunny, warm to almost hot day. Super day for a wedding.