Yesterday I drove my husband to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles office near Annapolis (I think it is actually in Parole, MD:) to try to renew his license. It had expired during the first months of Covid but the agency was closed (like so many other 'non-essential' government offices) and he could not get it renewed. When he consulted their website, it just said 'wait until we mail you a renewal notice' so we waited, but never got one. Sigh. Now he needs an up-to-date identity card for closing on this condo we are trying to buy.
So, the flowers were beautiful in front of the DMV - I am not sure what the pink ones are - some kind of asteraceae I expect - the yellow ones are Black Eyed Susans (you can tell the pink ones are much bigger) and I _think_ the deep-pink-to-red ones are Crepe Myrtle? Sadly, he did not accomplish getting his license/realID renewed (long tedious story) so I drove him home again. It was a pretty day - rather hot but sunny and summery. :)
That ate up most of my afternoon so I did not get to go sew with my friends Patty and Barbara like I generally do on Friday afternoons (boo! hiss!). I did manage to complete a few more hand sewn seams in the Grandmother's Flower Garden I am assembling, rather late in the evening as I watched my sweetheart play a video game. :)
Today Barbara and I took Patty out to lunch for her birthday. We went to Texas Roadhouse (Patty's choice) and the food was good! It was nice to sit in a convivial indoor public place with friends. ;)
I've been lazing around all afternoon since I got home from our lunch, reading and cooking and not much else. Well, it was very chilly in the restaurant (had the a/c on HIGH) so I did sit out on my back deck to read and warm up for an hour or so (until it started raining:). Love our new furniture.
I got tired of my inactivity this evening so I sat down at my sewing machine and made two more wonky blossoms:
The 'background' green batik is something I picked up on the freebie table at modern picnic last week.
These two flowers bring my count to five blossoms. I tossed them all on the table and took a look - they vary in size from about 5" across to about 10". I think I will just keep making them, one or two at a time, until I have a critical mass which should be enough to create a small wall hanging with them. Beggar's Garden I'm calling it in my mind because I am working with scraps and 'beggars can't be choosers'. :)
Tomorrow is the monthly get together for Sew&Tell. Looking forward to seeing stitching buddies.
:) Linda
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