Following Doctors Advice & Bits and Bobs.

 I won't be doing anything of great import this weekend. Maggie is under strict doctors orders to stay off her "feet" until she undergoes her surgery on the 28th/29th. No unnecessary trips anywhere. No taking the refuse to the recycle center, no quick runs up to the grocery store, or the laundromat, No running out to grab a Lil' Caesars Pizza... So I'll be staying home doing all the things.

I need to get my tomatoes and banana peppers and yellow squash in the planters. My son drilled the bottoms of the containers for drainage last weekend,  so they are ready to be filled now. 

I'm also going to  finally "fix" the painting one of my friends asked me to do. She has a lovely kind of abstract painting of a lady in formal attire standing in a room. It's lovely, but both my friend and I start to get depressed when it's hung up for more than an hour. The more you look at it- the more depressing it becomes. The colours are lovely but it needs a serious upgrade and she told me "I don't want it back in my house until it's changed,- can you do something with it? If you can't fix it- paint something of your own over it."

So I've had it for 6 months- I try to envision it changed by some way- but I came up with nothing... Then I got the idea to change the  position of it. I've had it sideways, upside down, and upside down sideways. And I finally saw the vision of the painting I'm going to do for her.  The lady is standing with one hand propped on her hip and I can use that as a beginning of a mesa rock arch landscape. The colours are perfect for it- and with a bit of gold and terracotta added here and there it should be a lovely Sunset on the Mesa Arch. I may even add a bit of a creek or river in the foreground for some contrast to all the reddish earth tones.

I'll try to post photos of it- before and after. No promises tho- I'm still trying to get my laptop set up and haven't gotten around to  getting FB and Blogspot set up on it yet...That's going to be another thing I try to tackle this weekend- time permitting. 

I'm also going to ask my son and grandson make a churn of homemade ice cream, too. I've found that the different flavours of International Delight Coffee Creamers are FABULOUS for home churned ice cream- My favorite so far is the Reese's Flavor with broken up mini-pb cups added to it!!!  And you know it's good because up until now my LEAST favorite flavour homemade ice-cream has been chocolate.  However I love the plain Vanilla(reminds me of snow cream we make with winter 2nd snow) , Banana split-LOVE that combination together(Vanilla with pineapple, strawberry, maraschino cherries with chocolate syrup drizzled over the top when its in your bowl- and don't forget the whipped cream and nuts(if you like them). Then too, there is Peach, and Strawberry- and Orange Creamsicle. Oh My Word!!!!

Childhood memories- planting a garden and Home-made ice-cream!!!!!!  It doesn't get much better than that!!!!!