Saturday, May 31, 2025

Busy May - somebody's birthday

So busy … no time to blog!   - - -  That's how I had started this but it is not true any more. Several days I had tried to upload this photos and the program just didn't want to let me. I tried again today, first same problem but then I found I had to do it one at a time. 

Well, here it goes!
I left several photos out. Flowers from our garden and a hawk who had decided to visit us. But more important was our visit to Nashville. This selfie photo I took on May 15 in Bristol to send to Helen so she would know how we progressed with our driving. She would know where we were.  


Next day, Friday, Helen had arranged for us to help at William's high school to hand out cookies instead of her. She does this occasionally as a volunteer. I was quite nervous about it beforehand but ended up really enjoying it. It is done about twice each month. The students are asked to tell something good about there day and then get the treat. They came by after their lunch and were very friendly. The interaction was fun.

Next day, Saturday, we celebrated William's birthday. We had some balloons and this banner on the house so guests would know where to go/park.


Omi had volunteered to bake the birthday cookie and decorate it. Of course I had forgotten to bring "those tools" and didn't know what Helen had but all was good. 
(OMG, just this minute I saw that I made a spelling mistake. Everybody was either polite or didn't notice.)


And HERE is the link to watch him blow out the candles. I was to late and missed the beginning. Sorry.


Well, we knew that Helen was under a heavy time crunch with the move, end of the school year and all the final tests etc. So we hoped we could help with some chores. Sometimes we could, sometimes we could not. None of us were able to open the glass part of this fan light to change a broken bulb. We found good "how to" on the internet and even asked at Home Depot but nothing helped. It didn't want to give way.


We had some rainy days and even tornado watches but Sunday evening it was so nice that Helen decided to take us to a park to stretch our legs at least a little bit. The Centennial Park is really very nice and lots of people enjoyed a lovely time, picnics and ball games. It was great to see.




In the week we could help by picking William up after each day's test at 10:35 am when Helen was actually doing her teaching work. One day we took him to "Sushi Chain", a very interesting place. The little plates with different kind of sushi is floating by and you can eat as much as you like but don't take a red plate. Those cost extra. And eat up. Leftovers cost too.  But William doesn't have leftovers! The tower of plates is his!


He had to try the jello with chopsticks too.




Helen said that she likes to cook but one day I was allowed to make a tomato and cheese pie. It needs "blind baking". Of course my clay beads for that were in Virginia but we dry black beans.


Thursday May 22 was the last day of school.  We said good-bye to William in the evening and told him that we would not wake him next morning so he could sleep in. Of course we wanted to leave as early as possible. Helen insisted that we would wake her and she helped loading the car. Luckily it wasn't really that much. Ah, hate saying good-byes.

Everything worked out nicely. Got our tank filled at the Costco near Lebanon like last time. Here the half-way photo as usually but I took it from the other side. 


Next morning a soft-boiled eggs breakfast. I texted this photo to William with the text "please thank your hens and your Dad for a lovely breakfast". 


No question that free-range eggs taste better. Thank you, Helen, for sharing with us and Sarah too.

(PS: I am back dating this so it is still in the right month. Today: 6/7)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Guten Morgen ihr Lieben, wie groß William ist, sieht man erst im Vergleich (in der Mitte von euch).
Liebe Grüße und ich wünsche einen schönen Tag . Ute