Day 150 Apple TV rental and Awkward Moment

My first today was a twofer. My sweet son and his lovely wife gave my sister and me an Apple TV for Christmas. Today we used it to rent a movie - a first. The movie we rented was Xmen: First Class. My sister is a fan of the series. I had not seen any of them. The only comic book movie series I always watch are the Iron Men because they are funny. I enjoyed the Xmen though. I think Marian suggested this because she needs someone to go see the new Xmen movie with her.  I enjoyed it enough to pay to see the new one.

Tonight Jess and I had a date night. She picked up some little ceasars and a movie with zac efron in it. Something like the awkward moment I believe was the name of it. It wasn't horrible but it wasn't a movie I would watch again. 

Day 149 Weaving and breakfast cookie

When I vacationed in New Orleans, we visited the WWII museum. I purchased a weaving loom there. I would love to learn to weave but don't really have the time right now so I thought I would try this. The instructions were horrible. It took two of us figure it out and it was very difficult. But here is what I have done so far.

Last night I decided to try some "clean eating" breakfast cookies. I looked up a recipe and thankfully had everything I needed (bananas, oats, honey, PB, and cinnamon). So I whipped them up and tried some this morning. They kind of remind me of no bake cookies (or dookie patties as we call them back home) but with no chocolate haha! They're actually pretty good though!

Day 148 fresh peaches

Tonight I (Taylor) decided to freeze some fresh peaches My sister in law gave josh and I. We were given about 10-15 peaches and I knew we wouldn't eat all of them before they went bad. So I decided to freeze some for some smoothies later! They're delicious and I can't wait to try them in some smoothies.

I was talking to Taylor about her freezing of the peaches. That brought up the subject of eating a fresh peach which neither of us had done. So while shopping I picked up a fresh peach to try. It was not my favorite but canned peaches are not my favorite either. But I tried it so my first for the day.

 

Day 147 New Jazz group and commitment

Tonight I (Lynn) went downtown to Market Square to see a new jazz group. It is a bigger group then usually play. Unfortunately, just as it started a thunder storm came up. Since it was outside, we came home. I enjoyed their warm up though.

Tonight I committed to something I had said I would never do again. White water rafting. I'm not overly excited about our family trip rafting but I know mom is excited and I guess I need to get over my fear of it and just do it. 

Day 146 Hoaders and Memorial Day event

Today I (Lynn) spent most of the morning watching "Hoarders". It was fascinating and horrible at the same time. We are all just one tragic event away from despair.

This afternoon, I got to spend time with representatives from the sons of the American revolution, Boyscouts of America, A Soldiers Child and the TN National Guard. We had a special flag retirement ceremony for one of our old flags and we held a fundraiser for A Soldiers Child. It was a very special experience and ceremony. I got to learn exactly how old flags are properly retired and disposed of. 

Day 145 Salad at TGIFridays and meeting our biggest donor

Tonight we met up with Josh's brother, his wife and their son Bryson for dinner. I wasn't overly hugry so I opted for a salad. The salad I had was a pecan crusted chicken salad with cranberries and pecans on it. SO delicious!! 

Today was the final day of the Quilt show and we had a special guest - our biggest sponsor, Hobbs Bonded Fiber VP, Bill Neal, came to the show. I had talked to him through email since Hobbs agreed to be our sponsor. I was very excited he was coming all the way from Texas to see our show. I was nervous about meeting him but he was very nice. We are lucky, they have agreed to sponsor us for the next few years.

Day 144 Small quilt sold and bad lifetime movies

Every year as part of our quilt show, guild member make small quilts to sell at the show. This helps pay for our charity work. I have made quilts in the past and a couple have been purchased by friends and family members. They were all priced under $20. This is the quilt I made this year.

The ladies in charge of small quilts priced my quilt at $60 which was way too high in my opinion.  The quilts were not selling so the women in charge asked to lower the prices. The practice in the past had been to put the quilts on sale on Sunday. The committee had voted not to do this anymore because many members found it insulting. My co-chair and I agreed to the drop in price as long as the prices were changed completely. They could not just mark through the original price.  We agreed because we felt the prices were too high to start with. The point to this long story is that before they could get back and reprice mine, it was sold for $60. I was shocked. And it was not anyone I knew. What a pleasant surprise.

Today was a day that I had planned to surprise josh by taking him to the reinassance festival we have here every year. Now I say surprise because I know he wouldn't agree to go if I asked him so I was going to have to drag him there without him knowing where we were going. Well a change of plans happened so I spent the day watching horrible lifetime movies. Both of which were about missing teens. Horrible I tell you. But they were like train wrecks. You just couldn't look away!