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Yum,yum the second

My one and only "Yum, yum" blog brought in six comments.  I am not making cranberry scones today but I am making chicken soup and intend to add dumplings to the soup and that should add up to a "Yum,yum" dinner.
And I plan to make something quite yum, yummy for the big event on Moody Ridge Saturday - as yet I have not come up with the perfect recipe for whatever.  (If whatever it is does not qualify I will make sure that no one identifies my humble offering.)

Yum, yum!

During the absolutely wonderful journey with Rich I had cranberry scones for breakfast the three mornings we were in Bishop.  So, I decided that I too could make cranberry scones and got up this morning and did it!  So, after getting comfortable with my coffee and nice hot cranberry scones I called Rich to see if he could guess what I was eating for breakfast - he couldn't!  It does seem that my enchantment with the cranberry scones in Bishop did not make a lasting impression on him - unbelievable - right?

My head is hanging low - very low!

So off I went yesterday morning for my 11:00 Tai Chi class.  Whoops, the beginners class was at ten!  So I went to the registration desk to determine what to do and am now a Mon/Wed ten in the morning beginner.  My Chernobyl class starts at 1:30 PM and I decided to wait and sort of wandered hither and yon and sat and stared into space etc. wishing the time would fly faster.  At some point I decided to figure out my confusion re TaiChi and while at it I checked out Chernobyl.  Another whoops - it is only held on two Weds. and those are June 22nd and 29th.  Another prime example of "Gramcie's Brilliant FOOLISHNESS" - I do manage to live up to my reputation. (Actually, Greg, you can always blame me for filing the wrong final day in your noggin - what a great inheritance!")   

Nutz!

Best laid plans - ugh!  It looks like summer will be over (or nearly over) before I will be in real training to be a hospital volunteer.  In three weeks there will be a second meeting for the potential volunteers who were there yesterday.  If I am approved at that point I have to have a TB test - two weeks later I go back to have that one looked at and then have a second TB test and wait another two weeks.  I think that if I am found TBless that I can then begin training which would take up to four weeks - who knows what else lurks in the hospital woodwork.  It is an amazing place - easy to get lost(as I did, yesterday) as there are so many buildings. 
So, I should get busy and seek other possibilities.  Tomorrow I will hopefully start TaiChi and my Chernobyl classess - that will be good, I think!

Oh Happy Day

Rafael Nadal won the French Open - I started suffering at six this morning!  That is tennis, by the way!

Other news - hmmmmm - well, I am going to the grocery store today.  Tomorrow I start the process of becoming a volunteer at The Roseville Hospital - it is one of several that are in the group that Rich's hospital is also in.  I should start Tai Chi tomorrow also, but, I may not depart from the hospital soon enough to get to that class.

Terry's snake has survived a great deal of sort of tender love - it went to school three days. 

And so it goes - other than I look forward to non-rain days.

Terry and Me

Yesterday Terry spent a few hours with me.  At some point I decided that he had watched quite enough television and so I suggested that we walk over to the wetlands.  He liked that idea and soon we were on our way with Terry carrying a magnificent creature residence that would have worked quite well for the frog he planned to find.  Once there we found that most of the water had gone its way but there was one pond that was somewhat lower than we were and sort of fenced in.  Anyhow, Terry was sure we could manage to go over or under the fence and down he went.  I cautiously followed him and found myself sliding awhile and then sitting in the dirt and rocks that had preceded me.  I announced that we would go no further and Terry agreed but he did find a lady bug which be bravely captured and gave it an ample home in his whatchacall it.  THEN we discovered a quite lovely ball in the weeds - perhaps baskedball size.  So Terry carried the ball and I the ladybug in its new abode.  Once home he let the lady bug go.  Then he decided we would go outside and play with the new ball but first he had something important to do.  He got a marking pen and printed his name on the ball and then announced that he would but my name on as I helped him find it.  He got Gram and then asked if it would be a C or an S next.  Once he had my "name" on he then drew a stick picture of the two of us bouncing the ball back and forth.  That is what we did til I ran out of steam.
When Jen picked him up he is set to leave with the ball tucked under his arm when he suddenly stopped and went back to find the pen and then carefully crossed my name off the ball and just as carefully crossed the picture off also.  So I no longer have half inerest in the ball but I did learn alot about bugs.