T Stands for Mother's Day and 3 Drinks

    Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. Since it's the start of the new week, it's time for T day again also over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog .

   Last week we had one warm day and then some cool weather. It was the kind of weather when I was a teacher we used to love, because it didn't remind the kids of a beach day so we could all be productive. 😏 However, now that I am retired,  I wouldn't have minded a bit more sun and warmth, but at least with the cooler weather I didn't mind staying inside to avoid the black flies. 🪰😉

    I hope everyone who celebrates Mother's Day had a lovely day. I celebrated on Saturday, a day early, but it ended up being a wonderful way to spend a rainy day. ❤

   Originally my daughter and I were going to meet in Concord (New Hampshire) and go see a movie. Since it was raining, my husband decided to join us, which made it even better because I could spend a family day with my 2 favorite people.

  We all enjoyed the film, even my husband. How could you not with those 4 stars? It may be about fashion (which believe me my husband is one of the most un-fashion conscience people on the planet), but it's still a good story. And luckily for my husband, I forced (grin) him to watch the first one  from 2006 on TV earlier in the week so he didn't go into the film blind. (And he liked the first film too.)

    Here's my first drink for T day this week. Lunch was popcorn and Diet Coke at the movies.

    We didn't know how crowded it was going to be, so we arrived a bit in the early side. That worked out better because we could chat. And although not sold out, I'm glad we got there early since the theater was mostly full.

   Before we went into the theater my daughter handed me a package of hot dogs for Mother's Day.

    Hot dogs you say? (And yes, they went into a cooler before the film.) Of course there's a story behind them.

    Earlier in the week when we were on the phone I said I was craving a hot dog, which is something that occasionally tastes good in warm weather. (I like them grilled nice and black with mustard, onion and pickle relish- typical New England style.)  She mentioned how she always buys these McKenzie hot dogs, and I said I'd never heard of them.

   In her snarky way she went on and practically accused me of not looking properly at the grocery store. OK, so  when I then went to the grocery store, I spent so much time in front of the hot dog packages looking for McKenzie hot dogs, and no I did not see any.

 

   When we next spoke on the phone and I told her I couldn't find any, she told me I should have gone to Hannafords (a local grocery chain) because that's where they sell them, not Market Basket (the local grocery chain where I had been). She then decided she was going to look up these hot dogs on her phone. She's reading to me what it says on the website where they are sold. Then she says 'Oh I didn't know these come from Vermont and they are not sold everywhere."  She also added "Oh, they are sold at the Hannafords in my area (Keene), but no one in your area sells them." 

   She gave me a weak apology 😉, and I replied that next time I went to her house I was going to find some of these McKenzie hot dogs because now I HAD to try them.

   When my daughter pulled up next to me in the parking lot before the movie, she smiled and held up this package of hot dogs which she stopped and bought me for Mother's Day.  Ha ha. So on the actual Mother's Day I had 2 McKenzie hot dogs in the delicious brioche buns I had bought. They were black and served typical New England style. And yes, they were delicious hot dogs. 

   You also see my drink #2 for T day, my glass of milk.

    She also gave me one of these fun pop up cards.

    

Which will spend the summer sitting on my fireplace mantel.

       After the movie the three of us went out to dinner. My daughter suggested we go to a restaurant that I had never been to, but she and my husband had, called the Red Blazer, also in Concord. They served a variety of food, and all 3 of us opted for burgers. And another round of Diet Cokes. Here's drink #3.

    Plus I was happy to try out this restaurant. It made a really lovely day.

   I hope everyone has a really lovely week ahead too. And happy T day too.

T Stands for Mother's Day

      Hi everyone. Happy new week, and to those of you who celebrated Mother's Day yesterday, I hope it was lovely. And if you're also if you're stopping by for T day over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's  blog, a Happy T day hello to you.

       I spent Mother's Day with my daughter. She lives a couple of hours west of where I live so I headed out first thing in the morning. We had plans to go for a walk and also lunch, and that's what we did. It was a really lovely day. And it was even lovelier since we'd just had almost a full week of rain. If you look carefully you can see how high on the banks the water is. 

      I'll also warn you, there's some food photos later in this post. 😏

     The first half of the walk was through the woods and along the Ashuelet River. 

    On this leg we saw lots of turtles sunning themselves.

    And this fraternity of male mallards. Their green heads really sparkled in the sun.

   After that the trail wound through a wooded area that went under and over a couple of roadways, and then we wandered through the city park and the city sports fields. 

     Finally we wandered through a little neighborhood, crossed another road and were back into the city and  to the car. It was a lovely 4+ mile (6.5 km) stroll.

      While we were walking one thing we talked about was lunch. We both decided it was a good day for ice cream. 😏 Since I had a 2 hours drive back home later in the afternoon, I figured we ought to eat something else first. We decided to stop at a sandwich shop and split a BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) with avocado first.

      It was a very yummy sandwich (well half since we split it). And you can also see both my and my daughter's drinks for T this week too. 

       And then we went for ice cream. Since it was Mother's Day she let me pick what I wanted, so we also split a brownie hot fudge sundae. 

We certainly made short work of that too. 😏

  Not only was the weather lovely, but it was a great Mother's Day for me too. And I think my daughter also enjoyed it too. 

   Have a great T day and rest of your week.

An Ode to Moms

       Hi everyone. To all of you who are mother's of human, dog, cat or other forms of children, I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day. ❤

      I'm heading out to spend the day with my daughter today. We have a walk and lunch planned, and who knows what else.

     Here's a bouquet of flowers for you. This is a mix of silk store bought boughs and also some paper blooms that I made. The bouquet is on my fireplace  mantel.

     Here's my all grown up baby last weekend when she was away on a hiking trip. (I still wonder why she wouldn't hike with us when she was younger and now she hikes/walks all the time.) I'm excited that I get to to see her today.

    Here's my other 2 babies when they were much younger. Now they're 11 and 12 ( Maddie may be even 13) years old with grey hair and some lumps too.

And this is a photo from 2015 of my mom, myself and my daughter.  Happy mother's Day Mom. I miss you.

I am also linking up to Gillena's  Sunday Smiles

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend and start to the new week. And Happy Mother's Day to you Mom's too.