My Turn - More Shenanigans & Other happenings

 So when all the inside electrical of your car goes out and you take it into the shop again for yet another issue. Since Pamela bought her car it's been in the shop every couple of months for one thing or another. You at least expect to get your car back in working order and put back together like it was when you took it in.  mmm not so much for Pamela.  They gave her car back saying it was a fuse and it's fixed but when she got home the inside lights weren't working and garage door opener dead. So back to the dealership the car goes. Again they say it's fixed and again they pick up the car. All seemed good until they got home and opened the back hatch. WTH

The hatch door wasn't even put back together! How does the service department release a car still taken apart.. So guess what,,, it had to go back to the dealership AGAIN!

This is just sad. Someone is slacking. But the lights are working now.  What a zoo!

Thursday (3/5) was my birthday. My hubby asked me what I wanted to do and I picked a couple of things we both like to do. We headed out to Giddings to go antique shopping at The Whistle Stop and then the Giddings Nursery.  But he got me lunch first... Taco Bell. My choice.  My eating habits have changed again and I'm not able to eat much so we shared an order of Tacos.  I was was a happy camper and I know he was.  I was a cheap lunch date. 

We didn't find anything we couldn't live without this time at the Whistle Stop Antique store but we bought some tomato and jalapeno plants for the garden at the Giddings Nursery. It was nice just getting out.  The crazy thing.... when we drove by our CEFFCO in Milano it's not ceffco anymore it's a Casey's and the gas had shot up to 2.74 a gallon. WTH. Well when we came home 2 1/2 hours later the gas had shot up to $3.14 a gallon. Holy Cow! This is crazy.  

So David asked me what else I wanted to do before we headed to Bryan to have dinner with Pamela and Kaleb so I said let's go home drop off our plants and the milk we picked up and then go back out on our way to Bryan to shop at one of my new favorite quilt shops just outside Hearne in the country. It's called The Railroad Cotton Exchange. It's a cute shop and the ladies are sew nice.  

For the month of March they are open from 10-5 M-Sat. Yay! Anyway the idea was to get there no later than 4:30 to run in and buy a backing fabric for a quilt top I've finished. Well between a truck with oversized load going 50 in a 70 and having issues going over the bridge and car going 20-30 on the other side of Hearne (good grief) we didn't arrive until 4:40pm.  Tina was in the shop and I asked for her help in picking something out. Found it! While ringing up my fabric Christine came out to the shop.  I got to use my 10% discount for my birthday. Sorry can't show the quilt or the backing for now since it may become a gift.  The shop has lots of pretty fabric, rulers and notions.  If you're doing the Texas Shop Hop make them one of your stops.

Well it was after 5 and I didn't want to hold them up any longer and I needed to get to Bryan.  The ladies told me it's okay the traffic isn't too bad getting home. LOL  Christine lives about 25 steps from the shop and Tina a couple doors down.  

Got back on the road and headed to Kaleb and Pamela's for dinner at Shipwreck Grill in Bryan. Kaleb got the oyster po'boy and said it was great, Pamela got fried fish, David got their $20 Ribeye with fries and beans. We all heard the waiter say Beets and were really confused but finally got it. He was saying beans. LOL  And I got their shrimp tacos. Yep tacos again but I knew I could eat one taco and the shrimp out of the second one.  The food was really good.

For my birthday David gave me money for a massage and of course fed me and took me shopping. 

Then Kaleb and Pamela gave me basket full of skin care and Pamela got me a special bracelet that is an open heart and she has the solid heart that fits inside of the heart of my bracelet. Awesome birthday and presents.

And my 1st orchid bloomed! It's so pretty. The 2nd orchid is still in the process but the 3rd one shows no signs of buds yet. 

I figured I'd kill it before it got this far but surprise. I now have a support for the flower stem now so it stands upright. It's so pretty.  My Mom had 3 or 4 orchids and they were always so pretty.

Friday (3/6) is the 'First Friday in Bryan' and our exercise group, a couple from book club and a couple other ladies all got together to celebrate Peggy who was having a birthday that day and go check out the sites and maybe the vendors at First Friday in Bryan. Lisa and I got included in the birthday celebrations. Her birthday was on the 4th and mine on the 5th. 

Our first stop was at Hush & Whisper Distillery in Downtown Bryan. It was a really nice place and the drinks were awesome. I got a chocolate martini.  It was sooo good. It was like a Godiva chocolate in liquid form.  Ina had almost finished her drink and with that bright smile I think she enjoyed. LOL Everyone picked a drink of choice and we sat around laughing and talking. There was 12 of us. 

These girls checked out the upstairs balcony.  

Teri, Birthday Girl Peggy and Lisa.

We really enjoyed this place.

Next picture is of Myself, Debra and Sheri. Sheri is our exercise leader. She's trying to make us stronger and healthier. 

She's got a hard job and we love her for keeping us moving even though there's a lot of groaning and grunting from the burn.

Emily had an inside track to management, Jon Spradley and he gave us the history of the building and a tour that took us to the roof of Varisco Building. It's the legacy that Brazos Varisco left behind. It was a department store and then it was where Bryan high school came after homecoming to celebrate and now it's a distillery. 

It was so windy outside and on the roof top it really got windy.  Can you tell?

Even being blown around the picture of Peggy and I came pretty good I think.

This picture is taken toward the north and Producers. And next taken looking south down I think Main Street.

And this one to the East toward Texas Avenue.

Awesome group of ladies. We had a really fun evening. Our final stop was at Papa Perez for dinner. Our food was okay and the service so so but in defense of the waitress she had 2 other large tables to contend with.

I think these two, Michelle and Teri were up to no good. 

That ends the first week of March shenanigans. There's more adventures to write about but I'll stop for now.

Until next post.. "Getting older makes you no wiser, but a number of lessons are learned.” ~Toba Beta

Birthday Shenanigan's have begun....

 

Have I mentioned that Bruno doesn't like to share. LOL. He has 2 big bunnies and 2 little ones and is chewing on a chew toy.  Sadie will grab one and he runs to grab it, brings it to my sewing room and slowly collects them all and guards them.  Sadie don't really care. It's game to her to see how long she can keep it and distract him from David. Then she gets all the loving. Obviously Bruno didn't go to kindergarten to learn the golden rule about sharing that our book club read about in the book "Everything I needed to I Learned in Kindergarten"  LOL

My handsome son in law got him some glasses. Now he looks all intelligent and studious. He was surprised how much they helped.

On February 28th Pamela and I had an early celebration for our birthdays. (hers is 3/2 and mine 3/5) We just invite folks to come out and hang out with us usually at a winery but this year we went to Brazos Valley Brewing in Brenham. People could come any time and leave when ever they wanted. It wasn't anything official/formal, it was just friends and family hanging out. Kaleb's Mom, Tori brought a yummy birthday cake to share. Thanks Tori. I had friends from Gause book club and exercise class, former co-workers and sorority sisters. Pamela had co-workers and long time friends from high school. It was a fun time. Now I got 

busy visiting with everyone that I kinda forgot to 

snap some pictures of the event but I have a few.
Obviously the primary drink was beer but they did have a couple wines and a couple other specialty drinks. Everyone seemed satisfied.

Samara and I were co-workers and we realized we've been friends for 25 years now. Damn.

This was eye opening. These ladies with me are my Phi Mu Sorority Sisters. We have been friends for 50 years this year. Holy crap! 50 years. We're not that old.

 
We've share a lot of good times over the years. 

When they brought Rebecca her glass of wine, she was like who puts ice in their wine. Of course my friend Sheryl does. LOL but Rebecca thought she'd go bobbing for ice cubes to remove them.  Didn't go so well. She's a nurse with Pamela.  She's a fighter and survivor and we're glad.  She kept us entertained for the last hour or so.

I messed up by not getting pictures of everyone who came but they left before we all started taking pictures.

It meant a lot to Pamela and I for all the folks that could make it and hang out and catch up.

Monday (3/2) was Pamela's birthday! She came to up to us and we took her to lunch at Oscar Store. Good food for sure.  We had to go drop off our tax folder and then it was off to feed the birthday girl.  Where did the years go. We're so proud of this girl.

 

Pamela's first birthday

Graduates HS and become a fighting Texas Aggie

                                    

Celebrates more birthdays

becomes a postpartum nurse
Gets engaged 

Gets married and celebrates her first Christmas as a married lady with family in 2025.

 

Happy Birthday Pamela and many More.

Until next blog post....A baby daughter is always a Daddy’s girl and Mommy’s world!

Welcome February... LOL I know it's already almost over

(2/2)  Monday   It's time for David's first injection in his back. The doctor explained everything and went over the MRI.  The MRI showed 35 issues. Yep 35. Disk deterioration, stenosis of the spine, pinched nerves and on and on. They took him back and the doctor used xray to guide the injection to the right spot. We'll see how he responds and come back for either another injection or and all is okay in November. Now for the left side of his back that caused.... The doctor prescribed some PT to help both. Crossing our fingers but PT don't start for a week and half.

(2/6) Friday   I fired myself from doing our daughters taxes this year and told her she needed to find someone else. I don't even do ours except for sorting the paperwork and entering the info into the accountant's packet. So she called her hubby's tax person and got an appointment but asked me to go along in case they asked questions she wouldn't know. The tax lady was really nice and within an hour and half she had Pamela and Kaleb's taxes done. Yahoo! Pamela was so relieved how easy it went and they didn't owe thousands of dollars. They got a small refund.   It was time for lunch. We were in Huntsville and not sure where to eat.  Pamela said let's go to Teysha Winery down the road.  We got a yummy pizza and did a tasting. It was relaxing and the weather was perfect. 

(2/7) On Saturday we met Kaleb, Pamela and the boys at a new place in Navasota called The Coop.  It's owned by Pamela's day of wedding coordinator, Karina, her husband Swanke and another couple. It's chicken tenders, wings and fries. It's in an old gas station and it's cute and the food was yummy. Only Braxton got wings and the rest of us got tenders. Now did I take pictures... hell no. Bad me.  I guess I have to go back. Oh darn. LOL If you're out and about near Navasota you should stop by and give them a try. We got to see Karina, Swanke and their adorable little guy Beckett. He's already 5 months old. Thank goodness I make my quilts bigger than a true baby size or he'll outgrow the one I'm making for him.

I'm so excited I now have 2 out of 3 free orchids I have are showing signs of getting ready to bloom one day.  Don't remember what color they're going to be.  I'm just glad they're still hanging in there. I don't necessarily have a green thumb.

It was time to head back to my exercise class and the gym and both was rough. My plantar fasciitis keeps me from doing a few things but I'm working on it.  Recently ordered a boot that I'm to wear at least 2 hours to help stretch that fasciitis away. I hope. Trying to avoid another shot because those hurt like a Mofo. 

This picture we're getting in position to do hamstring stretches before calling the morning done.  

David went to town to go to get some parts and a couple things at the grocery store and came home with some flowers. Ahh sweet guy.

They smelled really good and were very pretty.

(2/12)This month's book club book was "All I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum chosen by our member Ina. Now she told us if we didn't like it we can blame her husband. LOL  He picked it for her. Well we didn't hate it. The author has revised his book several times as he gets older and gains new perspective on life and the 8 valuable lessons we learn in Kindergarten. 

              1 Share                                         5 Clean up your own mess 

              2. Play fair                                    6 Don’t take what’s not yours

              3 Don’t hit                                    7 Say sorry when you hurt someone  

              4 Put things back where you found them      8 Wash your hands       

 His book is filled with several short essays of things in his life that he associated with said lessons and more. We all had our favorite stories the author shared.  It wasn't a bad book so we rated it at 3.5 out of 5.

For Valentines Kaleb and Pamela took the boys up to Honey and Pops house. 

They got ride their horses and Braxton learned ride his bike without training wheels. Killian had other things he wanted to do. LOL 

Look at him Go!

For our Valentines Day we had breakfast at Shirley Mae's Bakery in Cameron with Pam and Kevin Jackson. David introduced them to the yummy jalapeno biscuit with egg, cheese and bacon or sausage. And of course they were drawn to the other pastry goodies before we left.  We came back to the house and hung out for a while but they had reservations for an early dinner back in Austin so they didn't stay long.  We always enjoy their company.  We were gonna stay home and grill a steak but about 4pm David goes "Do you want to go to Ginno's in Cameron for am early dinner if it's not too busy?" Of course I said sure and I was already hungry. Normally we don't go out because everything is so busy and pricy. We got to Ginno's just after 4:30. By being so early it wasn't crowded and their prices are very reasonable and you get plenty of food for the price. Win Win and Win.

David got his usual.. Chicken parmigiana and I got a chicken with eggplant pasta dish. I had lots of leftovers for Monday's lunch when I go to quilt bee. It was sooo good.

Bruno and Sadie were so happy to be laying in the yard in the sunshine. Butt to Butt. LOL

A couple of updates... 

1st David's right side is feeling better. Not perfect but better. The injection seems to have given him some relief but Unfortunately the left side where I tried to kill him with a hay bale is still giving him problems. He'll start PT this week so maybe that will help both areas. Crossing my fingers.

2nd Jerry after being gored by our bull is healing up pretty good and surprising even the vet after he saw the Video of Jerry trotting along the fence with me.  The wound seems to be healing up slowly and pretty good. We still have to watch him and make sure it doesn't create an abscess under the healing area but we're good so far. You can click above on video and it will open to see Jerry walking.

Monday the 23rd will mark my 15th anniversary of blogging. I never thought I'd keep it up but surprise.  My blogging has evolved but I still leave out words or misspell stuff but it is what it is. I never claimed to be a writer or have perfect grammar or spelling but y'all hang with me and I thank you.  Thank you everyone who follows my craziness by bloglovin, email, facebook or Instagram. I appreciate all comments and try to reply to all unless you reply anonymous. 

I probably won't get another post in before February is over but I'll try.

Hugs and Love to all

Until next Blog.............. Keep a Smile on your face. It's Contagious!

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