T Stands for This and That

     Hi everyone. Happy new week to you, and as I always say, hello to all the T day participants who join in with their drinks over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

    Last week was a very busy week for me. Besides working my 2 mornings, I spent some time at the lake where my mother-in-law's house is. I believe I've mentioned this before, but even though I call it my Mother-In-Law's home, she is now in a nursing home as her dementia as well as her body functions have become too much for  her to be cared for at home or in the assisted living where she was. The house is actually now my husband's as well as his 2 sisters. This is the second year we've all been assigned weeks, (the best way to keep any one family from "hogging" the house), and last week was our week. 

    I was very excited that my daughter had some comp time at work and so she took Friday afternoon off and came over to join us. My husband also took the day off from work too, so the 3 of us could have a nice time together. (Well 5 of us if you count the dogs.-Grin) We had a nice afternoon, but later in the day we had a huge rainstorm.

    Luckily that storm only lasted about 30 minutes, but, HA HA, it was just long enough for me to doze off and have a nice little nap. 😏

    Saturday I had a wedding shower to go to for my husband's niece. She always tells me I'm her favorite aunt, and I definitely think of her as my niece too. Anyhow, when her sister had a wedding shower during COVID, I didn't go. I did send a gift and I made a paper flower bouquet as a decoration on the gift. That bouquet was a big hit, so I figured I better make one for the niece too.  I thought I'd share a few views of this latest bouquet today. 

    I had a spare tyvek envelope from the post office, and I liked the material, so I die cut a bunch of flowers from that envelope. Then I played with some alcohol inks to color the flowers.  I also cut a few flowers  from cardstock that I mixed in with the tyvek flowers.

     Here's a  close up view.

    Earlier in the week my good friend who lives in North Carolina was up visiting. She tracked down someone who we used to work and be friends with and who had moved away 20+ years ago, so one afternoon the 3 of us had lunch together and had a good catch up. And ha ha, when the waiter came over, I looked at him and thought he was one of my former students. When I asked him he smiled and said "Hi Mrs. Nelson. I recognized you as soon as  you walked in." Not only did I have some friends catch up but I was also able to catch up and see what my former students was up to. 😀

    I never took any bridal shower photos, but I have 2 drink photos for T day this week. I'll warn you, there's some food in case you're hungry.

    The first one is when I had lunch with my friend this week. I had a couple of pulled pork tacos and a frozen strawberry margarita. It was very hot and humid that day and so the icy drink was refreshing.

     My other photo is from Friday when I mentioned that my daughter took the afternoon off and joined my husband and myself. She loves a good lobster roll, and she hadn't had any from Pop's this year, so on our way up to the lake we stopped and picked up some take out for our lunch. You can see my Diet Coke which I brought from home.

   I probably wouldn't have shared a photo but I have to say that this lobster roll was the best one I'd had in a long long time. It was hot that day and also we wouldn't be eating lunch for about 30 minutes so I got both of our sandwiches with mayo (figuring butter would make everything soggy after that time), which as you can see if really lightly added. This sandwich was my idea of lobster roll perfection and definitely one worth taking a photo off. 😏