May

This has been a busy month - as May always is!  I've already told you about some lunch and dinner dates and also my Dr. appointments.
On the 13th we had a graduation open house to attend for a couple of special girls - then we met our friends Bob & Dottie F. at the Longbranch in Leshara for supper!  Dottie surprised me with my birthday present - some beautiful earrings.
On the 14th we went to one of Brody's soccer game.- the other team only had four players, so Brody's coach was asking if any of the kids would like to play for the other team "just today" so they could play 5 on 5 - he'd asked some of the kids and Brody was raising his hand - the coach asked if he wanted to play for the other team and he said YES!  Of course it was a little confusing because he was used to getting the ball to the one goal - and now he had to get it to the other one.  But they were all having a good time running around.  Toward the end of the game they were at Brody's team's goal and he tripped and one of the kids got him in the nose with the side of his shoe - so he had to be taken out of the rest of the game so we could get the bleeding to stop.  But at the end of the game - he not only got treats from his team - he got treats from the other team too!  He told them thank you of course.  Then it was cute as he went to tell the little boy he'd had the collision with "that it was all right!"
On the 15th we were supposed to race at I80 but got cancelled because of the weather - turned out to be a pretty nice evening and I got some flowers planted.
The 18th was a bad day for me - not sure exactly why - but I just couldn't navigate getting out of bed that morning, so I stayed home in the a.m. and went in for the afternoon.  I haven't had to miss much work due to my health - thankfully!
On the 20th I went in and had my port irrigated - have to do that once a month.
On the 21st we celebrated Brody's 4th birthday - but instead of going to the lakes with the threatening weather forecast (funnel clouds were spotted by North Bend and the State Lakes on that day) - everybody went fishing at Lake Cunningham instead.  Even Papa Ferguson who is not much of a fisherman was catching his share of fish - and then letting Brody reel them in for him!  (It was all catch & return fishing.)  I stayed back at Jeff & Jill's with Brant - and the two of us had our own fun playing and napping!  Then when everybody came back to the house we had supper and cake and the birthday boy opened up his presents.  The theme was "John Deere" and Jill had even made him a John Deere tractor cake.  (Jeff has a John Deere tractor - Papa Ferguson has an IH Farmall (red) - and Aunt Carrie has an Allis Chalmers (orange).)
Our rain out at I80 was rescheduled to the 22nd, so I was planning to try going along for the evening - John talked me out of it, which was a good thing, cos I wouldn't have been able to make it!  I also wasn't up to attending the two graduation open houses that we were invited to that evening.
On the 25th I celebrated my birthday - with all of my family!  Had a wonderful pizza dinner and got some pretty flowers!  John got me a gazebo.
On the 27th I had lunch with some good friends from high school - Kathy R., Jody P. and Pam K. - what a good time we had reminiscing!  Also got to meet Dr. G who delivered both of my grandsons - it's a small world - my friend Kathy R. used to babysit for Dr. G!  John & #31 and Justin & Carrie & #45 went to Junction Motor Speedway in McCool Junction, NE that night racing - I stayed home.  John said they drove in rain all the way until about ten miles from the track - and then even got to see the sun!
I had done some weeding in the flower beds on the front and the side of the house - and John had put down new mulch.  I wanted to do something different with the bed in the southeast corner of the house, so we put a shepherd's hook in the corner and placed our "GOTRA" rock and our "Gone Racin'" rock there, then we went shopping for some hanging plants to put on the shepherd's hook.  It has a nice fresh look to it!
On the 29th we were supposed to go racing at Raceway Park in Jefferson, SD - but got cancelled because of the rain.  So instead we watched the grandsons for awhile - then did some carpet and paint shopping - I'll tell you more about that later.  We brought Brody back home with us to stay the night and watched Gnomeo & Juliet - Papa & Brody started watching Rango, but didn't get very far . . . and I'm not sure who fell asleep first - the old guy or the young guy!
On the 30th we took flowers around to the cemeteries - stopped to visit our friends Desi & Steve R. - then came home and John bbq'd for supper!
The 31st was a very nice day (translate that as it was nice enough to put the top down on the convertible) - and I felt like I still had some energy when I got home from work, so I pulled some weeds, John helped me get the plants I bring in for the winter back outside - and I even repotted a couple of things.  I cooked supper - and the burgers were pretty good if I do say so myself.  I even got the refrigerator cleaned out while I was cooking.  I really like four day weekends - they just don't come often enough.