The Birthday Week

The Big 55!  I'm officially eligible for senior discounts

Yippee!

You can bet I already made a list and plan to take advantage of it.

I had an "All About Me" week, a gift from my husband.

Wherever I wanted to go, whatever I wanted to do.

What more could an official Senior ask for?

Well, may be a Nexus7.

I've stolen his enough that he thought I should have one too.

It will be great for watching tutorials as I am sewing

or listening to pod casts of my favorite NPR game shows!

Nexus7 image credit

As we were leaving for the great Birthday Breakfast,

the small parcel carrier was driving up our road.

Seeing that there are only a few houses on the road,

and I was expecting a package, we turned around and 

met him in our driveway.

Mom sent a quilting book, garden gloves, napkins,

 watermelon shaped citronella candles, a chicken spoon rest 

and a check so I could pick out something special.

She added some extras between the quilting book pages.

This is one of my articles (Kathy Felsted) from when I 

worked for the Kingdom Daily News in Fulton, MO!

I always make a trip to Dennys for the Grand Slam breakfast.

If you go on your birthday, it's free.

Not the day before or the day after- it must be on that day 

but any time during that day.

   It was good but not without some issues.

 How many Denny's employees does it take to make a fried egg?

Apparently three.

They asked- "how would you like your eggs"?

I replied- fried- over hard so there is NO runny yolk.

Egg #1- runny yoke-  OK,  an error, the waitress sent it back.

Egg #2- Waitress, wait.  I poke the egg- a volcano of  yoke.

The waitress is mad (not at me).

She gets the manager.

She yells at the cook.

She is overly apologetic.

I tell her- forget the egg. They hate me now.

She says, "NO, the manager will make the egg."

The manager makes the egg.

She brings it out all frowney faced, no apology,

Maybe she's mad at her cooks that can't make a hard egg,

 maybe she's mad that a customer complained.

I can't tell but it's not good customer service.

Did we tip?   Of course, the waitress was wonderful.

The cook wasn't.  

We went into town so I can do some shopping.

Besides getting a pair of shoes, we were looking for some

construction material to make a deck on the coop

since I am too short to step into the raised coop.

I tried to stop at an art gallery to see 

a friend of a friend's paintings but street parking

was full and my husband has his ham radio antenna on the car

which made us too tall for the garage.  I'll go another time.

I did have him stop by the health food store that has been

there for years. They have bulk teas so I got some 

elderberry flowers, elderberries and another variety.

Throughout the week we made several other stops.

I'm going to try my hand a sewing clothes and 

Joanne's had a super sale on patterns.

One was marked down to just over a dollar- from $17!

We went to the Kirkwood Farmer's Market and some nurseries.

I adore shopping at thrift stores and found some items

in great shape, comfortable and fit!!

More thrift store items.

I couldn't leave the little statues!

We stopped at Pauline bookstore (Catholic)

More on this later but Tom built a porch on

the chicken coop for me. It's a raised coop,

with the first step above my knees so I had to 

stand on an old tool box that we pushed in and out

from under the coop.  It broke so I haven't been able

to get in!  Now it's easy, although I need the ground

raised to easily take that first step.

We had to go up to St Charles, MO and stopped by

the Lewis and Clark Boat House and Nature Center.

St Charles is where the Voyage of Discovery began.

More on this later also.

We drove through Creve Coeur park, our old stomping grounds,

so Taylor could see where the Indian princess plunged to her death.

Creve Coeur means Broken Heart.

Pops decided to take a walk on the rocks, 

next to the sign that said to stay off the rocks.

He didn't think they meant THESE rocks 

(since the sign was off to the side).

He got Taylor up there too so it's a good thing

I didn't have to bail them out of jail!

We stopped for pizza and salad at Massa's in Ellisville, MO 

and got home just before the storm hit Saturday night.

 My neighbor, Simone, had walked over on Friday night

carrying two glasses, one glass had an umbrella pick filled

with cherries and  also sporting a flamingo straw.

It was Turtle Juice- yummy, and not for kids.

Later that night some friends dropped by and we sat

around the fire pit lit with one of the citronella watermelon

candle slices.  It kept bugs away and gave off just enough light

on a hot summer eve.

We watched the Space Station fly by at 9:32 pm.

Here is where you can check the times for viewing.

We spent Sunday puttering around the garden after church. 

Taylor is staying the night so Tom will take her home tomorrow

while I am at work.

That was the majority of my week.

Here's a little look back over the past  55 years.

Mom sent this article in my birthday package too.

 I have a few photos scanned into the computer.

Relaxing, reading a magazine.

(Aurora, MO)

High School - Old Farm Estates subdivision

Tom, Me and my grandparents 

Virginia and Robert Templeman from Bethany, MO.

College- William Woods in Fulton, MO

Wedding - Creve Coeur, MO 1982

 Today:

A little older

A little slower

I had a good birthday week.