Monday

Another rainy day in New England. But we're all wearing sunny smiles because we know we don't have to shovel this form of precipitation!As soon as I got home from work today I made a quick detour by the last, precious, perfectly baked, piece of strawberry rhubarb pie and grabbed my camera to try and catch some raindrops on my flowers before it started coming down in buckets again.(And then I ran back in and devoured that slice before anyone else could get to it! )
The only good thing about returning to work after a vacation is reminding myself that I'm putting my wages into a savings account. I remember when we were kids we used to have Christmas Club savings accounts at Marine Midland Bank. All year we'd save up and then, on one magic day, in the week before Christmas, we'd cash out our accounts and spend every penny of the $5 we had saved to buy Christmas gifts for one another. I always bought Deb a plastic tube filled with fragrant bubblebath that looked like the stuff they put in Pixi Stix. That bubble bath tube had to have a flower on top or I'd just leave it on the shelf and move on. Mom always got a book of Lifesavers from me. We usually did our shopping in Woolworths or Kresges, but sometimes we paid a visit to Danny's Discount. We knew how to stretch a dollar back in those days.
So anyway, I made fried chicken with mashed potatoes and brocolli for dinner tonight. And I already ate my dessert before dinner so that's out of the way, the dishes are done, the cats have been fed and all is right with the world, for now.