Memorial Day

Daisy has been sleeping upstairs this week and has been able to bond with Shadow.  Shadow likes to follow her everywhere and chase her tail. Daisy went outside for the first time by herself.  She spent a couple of hours playing with Shadow in the backyard, watching the sprinklers. At first the two cats kept me up most of night, meowing and running around the house.  Now Daisy sleeps in my computer chair, while Shadow sleeps on the bed with me.  One of the cats kicked me in the stomach during the middle of the night with their back paws, as they were jumping off the bed.   Daisy even used Shadow's litter box and he didn't seem to mind it, because he used it right after her. We had to put blocks under the gates of the fence, because Daisy kept climbing under them and going into the front yard.  What silly cats!

Friday May 25th was the two year anniversary of our cat, Patches's death.  I think about her every time I go out to the garden. It still is very sad to see her little plaque and cat statue in the backyard where she is buried.  I miss her sometimes.   Saturday May 26th was the two year anniversary of us adopting Shadow from the animal shelter.  He has been such a good cat and hilarious with his antics.  

I went with Mom to see her Neurologist MA in Salt Lake City on Monday afternoon. She had to have two rounds of steroids on Tuesday and Wednesday in Ogden and Dad went with her. Mom had a long lasting stomach ache for several days as a side effect of her Steroids, and she wasn't able to sleep through the night or eat hardly anything.

I was such a Klutz on Thursday.  I banged my head against the wall and the car, smacked my leg into the credenza, and smacked my arm into the bar under the couch.   I decorated the house with Strawberry crafts for June, such as tablerunners, bells, jars, and plates.  I broke my bedroom night stand lamp, turning my chair around so Daisy could sit in it, so I had to get a new lamp.  I didn't do much cooking this week.  


 I cooked a lot of things.  I made my Grandma's potato salad for dinner on Monday.   I made Chicken Cordon Bleus in the crock pot with a homemade sauce and mashed potatoes on Thursday.  I made Pork Chops with ranch and chicken dressing in the crock pot and cheesy mashed potatoes for Memorial Day. I made a meat sauce from scratch and served it with penne.

We have been buying stuff to go into the RV, such as kitchenware, towels, towel racks, etc.  I have loaded games, travel books, pans, silverware, spices, and Tupperware into the cupboards.

Dad cleaned out his white truck and got it ready for being sold, so he can buy a better truck to pull the fifth wheel.  Dad sold his truck to the first person who responded to his ad on Friday. Dad finished the deal on his new truck with the seller and GMC and was able to bring it home on Wednesday. We took the truck for a ride and got some ice cream on Thursday.  It's a Silverado, with leather seats, 4 doors, and has a fifth wheel hookup in the bed.  Dad took his truck to work on Friday, cause his co-workers wanted to see it.  His friend from work came over and showed how to hook the fifth wheel onto the truck and test drove it with him.

Our neighbors have nice to us.  They brought us some chocolate oatmeal squares. Our visiting teachers brought us some chocolate chip cookies, a bookmark, and a quote about forgiveness from President Uchtdorf.

On Memorial Day, we drove up to Ogden and North Ogden to put flowers on both sets of Grandparent's graves.  We passed a church offering Drive-Thru Prayers in North Ogden.  Afterwards we went to Denny's for a late Breakfast. 


I read a lot on my ipad the past two weeks.  I read Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman,  13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, and This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen,   The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, These is My Words by Nancy Turner, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.. We watched the movies, Abduction, The Beaver, Crazy Stupid Love, Pandorum, Restless, and The Vow.