Yesterday was full of so many good things. Donny had asked me to run by Jake’s feed store to pick up some tomatillo and jalapeno plants. When I went to pay I heard dogs barking and there was an adoption going on in the back. There were so many cute dogs. Four got adopted while I was standing there loving on the other cute pups. I also think I talked a man into getting an elderly dog whose owner had died. I hope he ended up adopting him because he was such a sweetie.

Donny just needs to harvest the potatoes then these will go in for the salsa garden.

After I got home I decided that I needed some plants to go into some pots that were empty in the front flowerbed. I’d always wanted to go to Longview Garden Center. The only reason I knew about it was because when the kids were at their old school construction was being done on the roads and we had to take this weird back way. The nursery is tucked into the woods on this little street. The people there were so nice and actually knowledgeable about all the plants. I will for sure be going back there again.

Hannah woke up with a bad cold, so Jack and I ran to Walmart to get her some snacks and juice. I realized I needed more potting soil so I picked that up. While I was searching for the soil I found a snake plant. I had a big one in Baton Rouge that died in the flood. Happy Mother’s day to me. Actually my Jasmine plant was my mother’s day gift, this was just a little add on.

I noticed when I got home that most of our neighbors were out mowing so I checked the weather forecast. Sure enough, rain for several days. Peer pressure forced me to get our mower out. Our yard is not the easiest to mow because there is so much to move. I managed to get it all mowed and really wanted to use the weed eater. The only problem was that I can’t hold the darn thing and pull the string to start it. So I did the next best thing and used scissors. I don’t know why people think that is so weird. I’m sure there was a time that weed eaters didn’t exist. Scissors work nicely.

One of the very best things that happened between mowing the front and the back was this:

My oldest daughter, Nikki, graduated with her associates in Biology. She knew we weren’t going to be able to go because we had just been up there, but I got to live stream it. Thank goodness for technology. Now on to her Bachelors.

While I was waiting for her group to be called, I managed to get all the new flowers potted.

By this time I was beat. Like I couldn’t do anymore even if I wanted to. I checked my Fitbit and I had apparently done 2 hours of mountain biking, even though I don’t own a bike, and taken 14,000 steps. I got the best text ever from Donny asking if I wanted to go out to eat.

We ditched the kids and had a date night at Tia Juanita’s Fish Camp. It had recently opened and we were excited to try it. It was SO fun. It was loud, bright, colorful and had live music. The food was incredible! Donny had the seafood enchiladas and I had the Cajun Girl Po’boy. And they had slushy drinks.

The guy playing was really good.

Donny knew every song he played and sang quite loudly to them. Thank goodness it was really loud in there.

I had the drink called The Painkiller which was like a Pina colada on steroids. I rarely drink, which explains how I ended up falling asleep with all my clothes on and cats laying on me. It also could have been the 6 hours of yard work I did. Probably both, but the flowers sure brightened up the place. What a very good day it was!