Tuesday Again

We are so grateful for all the rain yesterday and overnight.  We managed to get in a walk yesterday morning just before the rain came, spent most of the day sheltering inside but loving the cool and the fresh scent and the relief.  Arriving home at the end of our walk we noticed and picked up an envelope in the park strip of our front yard.  It was a wedding invitation addressed to us.  No idea how it got there.  Glad we noticed it.  

From our garden.

So, we've been invited to a wedding reception and a wedding shower - two different brides (one of the brides told her Mom she didn't want a reception or open house or anything, they just wanted to get married - Mom wasn't having that, thus the shower.)   Things are so different from when we were married - but of course, they would be. I stopped today at Dollar Tree to get a wedding and wedding shower card.  There wasn't a single wedding card in the store.  And only one wedding shower card which wasn't to my liking.  I found that just weird. June and no wedding cards? 

The garden is coming along.  The best part so far has been the strawberries.  The Husband has picked enough for us to enjoy and to share with a couple people.  They aren't large and are obviously homegrown versus commercially farmed.  But they are pretty tasty, how lovely to be able to give some away.

We walked the other morning along the horse pasture.  To my delight, the momma and baby were out of the shed.  As soon as the momma heard my voice at the fence she wandered over.  The little baby made me just giggle a little.  Jumping and kicking and trotting and just having a grand time being young and energetic and maybe a bit feisty.  Too cute.

Too Cute

Ran into our neighbor.  Had a chat about the trees.  We had no idea how far across the fence into his yard our tree branches are hanging.  Lots of encroachment.  Sigh.  He mentioned that he's learned that mature trees like ours are not a positive - people don't like the maintenance or removal burden of the large trees.  We're not taking ours down.  We've 21+ years and lots of $$ invested in them, they're doing great, we love the shade and beauty.  And we're keeping them.😊

Started Steve Young's latest book (might be his only book so far, I don't know):  The Law Of Love.  I was struck by a paragraph early on where he talks about how we sometimes think we're supposed to love people onto our path and how that isn't the case at all. That other people, with God as their partner, will figure out their own path and our responsibility is to just love them.  Easy to say, lofty goal to have, sometimes a bit more challenging to implement and follow.  I have often felt like others have determined my path and that they're not happy with how I'm traveling along on my own.  In my head I think "you do you, I'll do me and we're good."  Not to say there's not room for improvement, that's always a given.  And I want to improve - to try to be a better disciple of Christ.  I just don't always need other people's (we're all imperfect, right?  No need to assume superior knowledge of how other people should be.)  instructions on how to do that.  And I hope to not be the one issuing directions / instructions.

Today's weather is about perfect.  I'm enjoying having the back door open and not have the dirt and noise from the pool work going on next door. The Husband is trimming some branches from the honeylocust trees in the front, the garden has been fertilized, we managed to get a few things at Costco yesterday and I've finally found a small thing or two for The Husband's birthday and Father's Day.  Hard to shop for someone who is completely content and wants for nothing.