So What's Happening?

Since I wrote a reflective blog yesterday I am going to please Jen and write a newsy one today.
Today is Jordan's 76th birthday and I am expecting him here in half an hour. I am taking him to dinner and to see the movie The Secret in their Eyes which Phil thought excellent. I don't see a lot of Jordan anymore. I don't think he has stayed overnight here in months. And that is fine with me.
Tomorrow morning Phil comes to work in the yard. We recently put in two bougainvillea on the wall bordering the driveway to complement three flowering vines that we planted last year. The colors there are fuchsia and white and I may plant clumps of white and fuchsia vinca at the base of the vines.
I am disappointed over the lack of sun in my back yard. The Lady Banksia rose did not even bloom that we have on the arbor. The sprays of green look lovely but I miss the flowers. Phil has been modifying the watering system and we have waited until he finished to go get the rest of the summer flowers. I will just do the minimum because I plan to be gone most of July.
Also tomorrow I am taking Mary and Alex Keenan to lunch at The Olive and the Ivy which is right around the corner from me at The Waterfront. They have hosted me so many times that I felt I had to stretch my budget and treat them back. They have tons more money than I do. For instance I spend $4000. - $6000. on vacation while they spend $50,000.!!!
On Friday I have a hair appt. Thank God as I am at the old lady witch stage and will be so glad to get my hair cut and curled. Then I will go to Marth's house for dinner and to spend the evening with her and Sara. They usually get together on Fridays and watch old movies.
I find that I am tiring of Farmville and will probably quit it before I go on vacation. It takes a lot of time and I have about run out of ideas about arranging the property. I feel drawn once more towards writing and I could also profit by using the time for more exercise.
I am missing the Suns/Lakers game tonight but if we play like we did on Monday it is just as well. I kept waiting for OUR SUNS to show up and they never did. The Lakers played their best and we played badly - just couldn't get baskets. I can get up a good hate for Kobe Bryant too.
Many of my shows are winding down. NCIS has it's finale next week as does Idol. Project Runway, Amazing Race and Survivor are done. Dance is coming soon and it is a great favorite.
It will be interesting to see what I do to fill in the empty time slots.
Had my cleaning girls here today and groceries delivered in the midst of their work - a bit hectic. Getting three weeks worth of product put away is a bit of a chore but even with my handicaps I can still manage. I am so grateful to be able to be so independent. When I think of my brother and sister dying at 61 and 63 respectively I am so fortunate to not only be alive but to be managing my own home.
Vacation is coming closer and closer. And the way time flies it will be here before I know it. I am going up to San Jose on July 12th and stay with Mary for two weeks before going down with her and Lis to meet Sara, Marth and Ame for a week's stay in a beach house. Then I will go back to San Jose with the girls for another week. I will be away from home for a month. Phil and Joan will stay in my house. I always find myself reluctant to leave home. But as soon as the plane lifts off the ground I leave it all behind. And the time away, the change of environment is invariably renewing.
I have been waiting for some books that I have on order: The Last Station and the 3rd in the Steig Larson trilogy. In the meantime I have been enjoying some Mary Stewart's that Marth has lent me. I read her years and years ago and had forgotten how good she is. Just reread My Brother Michael, Wildfire at Midnight and am starting Airs Above the Ground. She had also lent me The Children's Blizzard, a harrowning documentary style tale of a violent winter storm in the midwest of the 1800's. Despite all of the new technology nothing takes the place of books in my life. I truly reverence them and love owning so many.
As Porky Pig would say "That's all, folks.!!"