Monday, May 25, 2026

We have Memorial Day and Labor Day – our bookends for the unofficial start and end to summer. It’s hard to believe we are here already.

Let us not forget that Memorial Day does have a meaning. Our Dad joined Air Force ROTC in college and went on to become a fighter pilot with a Lt. Colonel rank in the US Air Force. He did a stint in Vietnam before I was born. Did I tell you that I read Kristin Hannah’s The Women and then read my Dad’s Vietnam journal?

Our hometown flags:

My Dad adored us and was not like a typical father (in my opinion) of that time period. He was on the floor with us playing dolls and a drawing game where we had to guess what he was drawing (pre-Pictionary!) and he had off on Mondays and was in charge of carting us to piano lessons and allergy shots (Molly).

Even though it’s old and grainy, I love this photo of my Dad and I…

Our parents are buried in the veteran’s cemetary and we chose the Methodist symbol and this quote: “the engine is the heart of an airplane but the pilot is its soul”.

Then we wanted to find a quote for my mom that also used the word “soul” and we found “art is the journey of a free soul” because my mom was a lifelong artist and art teacher.

It was a wet week around here and that carried over into the weekend. When you boat on the river, you have to pay attention to the river levels and it is high right now and too dangerous for boating even if it did stop raining. Boo! It makes me glad we got to go out last Sunday.

Let’s go back to Thursday…

Thursday afternoon I had a happy hour with my buddy Dan. It was really nice to catch up!

I came home and made spinach salmon salad. It’s a copycat from a restaurant salad that Tom likes.

With the salmon:

Friday morning and Friday during the day it literally did not stop raining for a second. It was the last day of school so it was not very summer like at all. It did make for a cozy morning with my coffee and candle.

No kiddies got to play outside before saying bye for the summer which is kind of sad. I decided to scream in their honor.

I went to the library and found some free magazines along with my book. They have a bin where you can leave a magazine and take a magazine. I love that!

I wasn’t quite finished with my last book but was anxious to get into my new book and I made myself a little rainy patio happy hour.

You know what you can’t do in the rain? Blow leaves.

I lied to Tom and told him I didn’t feel like cooking and sorry but we were having sandwiches but then he walked in and I had made one of his favorite childhood meals! I’m sneaky!

It is BBQ beef and consommé rice. I cooked the beef in the slow cooker with a homemade sauce and the rice gets baked in the oven with a can of beef consommé, water, and butter. Ewww… look at those peas!

You’ll never believe this…it rained on Saturday! This might have been a tiny respite from it.

I made myself a beautiful omelet…

Oopsie, I think I put too much salt on the plate.

I went and got a fresh pedi…

It stopped raining Saturday, but it was still cloudy. There was standing water and it was just so saturated and gross.

Remember what I said about what you can’t do in the rain? The neighbor’s ex started using the leaf blower and Tom said, “He’s blow drying the grass”. He said some other things, too, but those won’t get repeated here. By the way, we ran into the neighbor on the other side of the serial blower, and she literally imitated the sound of his blower. Ha!

Later on Tom and I took chili down to Mason’s work for him, returned Tom’s shoes from last weekend, got gas and a car wash, and got sushi for dinner at Fresh Market. Could there be a more married adult date?

At the car wash!

Then, the sun came out when we got home!

Sushi for dinner!

Eddie Otis has started really sleeping in. This is him yesterday morning when I said I was going to get up at 7. He has the funniest facial expressions.

I tried to make some egg bites with shredded hasbrowns. I made some big and some small. They were pretty good.

I think we are supposed to take the flag down in the rain?

I watched a few episodes of The Other Bennet Sister on Prime on the patio Sunday afternoon and it’s really cute.

I had a Target pick up that included a new clear umbrella – lol!

And, for dinner we had the very traditional Memorial Day weekend chili – womp womp.

I also made the Chuy’s dip!

Next Currently is Wednesday, June 3 and the prompts are enjoying, wearing, watching, listening (to), and buying. I wasn’t feeling very out of the box this month!

And, don’t forget tomorrow is Fashion Files. I know it’s weird with the holiday so if you can’t link up it’s no big deal.

Amy