~ Mother's Day bouquet ~

First day of summer, and Emil's birthday. Nineteen years ago he was born, with a head the size of an orange. I had to reach my hands into the holes in an incubator to hold him for the first two weeks, and when finally they let me take him out, he looked at me intently with black eyes for a few moments as if to say "Ah, so that's what you look like!" and then fell asleep in my arms.

He invited Grandma for birthday cake tonight so I'll bring her out before supper. Have to go into town and buy a cake and do my usual weekly running around: bank, library, grocery store, doctor, so on, so forth. Oh, and find a birthday present. The kid couldn't give me a single solitary hint what he would like. So he's getting a shirt and a CD, so far. He'll be happy with that, mind you. I don't need to shop for more.

Usually Everett likes his hair thick and shaggy and fights a haircut like it's an execution. So last week when he said "I need a haircut" I gasped and said to Scott "Did you hear what I thought I just heard?" and yes indeed, he had. I jumped on making an appointment for Saturday and on the way into town asked Everett what kind of haircut he wanted. "Really short, like Emil gets," he said.

Voila.

Had Grandma out for the afternoon and supper last weekend; caught her with a mouthful of apple pie in this picture. Emil had just polished off the last piece.

~Father's Day flowers ~

Isn't this a lovely old vase? When Grandma moved from her house to the lodge, I was the lucky one who got it. Wish she could remember something about it, to tell me. Maybe it belonged to her mother.

Mother of a 19-year-old, wearing a shawl (broomstick crochet) made for her 30 years ago by her grandmother:

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The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897
"Sun, Jan.27, 1884:
There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner-table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own."

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