~ Salt 'n' Pepper? ~ enjoying the sun by the barn ~

When I called Dad yesterday morning he was about to give Trinket some breakfast after she'd spent the night at his place. This week her parents, Joan and Gary, are frolicking on the Mayan Riviera with my other sister, Karen, and her husband. Apparently Karen was swimming with dolpins and after hearing that I smiled every time I thought of my two sisters down there. Swimming with dolphins is something Karen has wanted to do for a very long time.

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Yay, it's Friday! You'd think I worked in an office or something, the way it feels like the beginning of a holiday weekend. Wait, I DO work in an office! It's just that it's the most casual office in the world. It's 9 o'clock and I'm still in my housecoat and about to eat toast at my desk.

I am an admirer of the actress Emma Thompson, and also of the actor Colin Firth, so when the movie Nanny McPhee came on the movie channel early this week I videotaped it to watch with the boys tonight and am looking forward to it.

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Stopped in to see Grandma yesterday around 4 and she had just lain down, she said, after an afternoon of bingo-playing. She looked under the weather, was blowing her nose. I called just now and she sounds spry, had just come to her room from breakfast and was about to make her bed.

She got the shirt you sent her, Reta, and pointed it out to me twice while I was there. She also said she wasn't sure where she had to go to get her supper, which as you know is right down the hall. So I don't think she was firing on all cylinders.

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We are finally going to Saskatoon next week to take Emil to the ear/nose/throat specialist, and he is asking me where we'll stay. He is requesting that he be permitted to stay with our cousin, Judy, "even if you don't stay there, Mom." I wonder what it is that he likes so much about being at Judy's place. The first time we visited there she might have served spaghetti for supper -- could that be it? Could it be all the tiny tots that start showing up at her home for daycare at 5 a.m.? Emil isn't able to tell me what it is that's special about Judy's place, but it sounds like he wants to move in there. Funny.