" Day Late And A Dollar Short "

I was going to post this yesterday but got carried away with my work. This is very usual for me!

Can someone please identify this lovely flower for me? It was one that was given to me by one of my lady friends that I used to workout with. It had already bloomed last year when she gave it to me so I couldn't identify it in any books from the library. This is the first time it has bloomed for me. Very pretty, but would like to know what it is.


After dropping Katie off at school this morning (only two more days) I went right to work back in the yard. I still have quite a few weeds to pull. But I'm almost there! As I cleaned up the garage a bit, I pulled out the old metal chairs and gave them all a hosing down.

Now if I can only find the time to repaint them all! Something I was supposed to do last week when I was sick. Maybe they'll get done and maybe they won't !

Changes are coming soon. I am going to redo my blog this weekend. I found everything that I want to have on it and almost gave it a try myself but I still get a little nervous about it. I'm so afraid of clicking on the wrong thing and poof, it's gone. My Katie knows how to do it. I told her yesterday that I would give her five dollars if she would do it for me. At first she was all for it. Then when she discovered that it wouldn't work the super fast way that she wanted to do it, she told me to just forget it and I could wait for Ginny to do it. So I took my five bucks back!
Update
I did manage to get one of the chairs painted before it started to rain yesterday. Hurray for me! If it's rain free today perhaps another?

Katie is starting to get excited about graduation. Katie rarely shows her emotions, but I can see it. They aren't doing anymore work in school and are just watching movies and goofing around. I told her that this last week of school she is basically just a money maker for the school district from the state! But she is having fun. And I do remember those last days of eighth grade and how cool we all felt! Only to be quickly demoted from this feeling the first day of freshman year! Things are very different now. Katie's class can basically wear what they want to graduation as long as it falls within the dress code guide lines. Katie will be wearing a casual black dress with white polka dots over black leggings. I'm sorry, I think that they call them something else now but I can't think of what it is. With that she will be wearing her converse shoes. I wore, in 1972, a very, very floral mini dress with white patent leather baby doll shoes! When I look at the pictures I can't help but laugh as my feet looked huge in comparison to my twig like legs under my blue graduation gown! I only weighed 95 lbs. I don't know what happened!

Today is Katie's last full day. Her class gets out early tomorrow. I am praying that I have the energy to keep up with the weekend and especially Saturday. We are all going out to eat after the graduation on Saturday and then coming back to our house for cake. Kate has invited 5 friends over to spend the night and of coarse our family will be here along with a few old friends of Ginny's that are in town visiting. I am very fortunate to have a husband that is very helpful and I will be relieved and happy to see him. He should be home tonight. He doesn't know that the girls are spending the night yet! All six teens! Oh well, hope daddy's in a good mood.

Today I have just a few things to do in the house and I am pretty much done. I am going to meet a friend for lunch today that I worked with years ago. It will be a nice time out from the work.