Flamingoes for baby.

That  cloth you see is a gorgeous bit of Norwegian Hardanger from Ms. Mary Moon. It is effectively hiding the terrible nest of wires in back of the see through table. It is one of the finest things I have ever owned. I thank my lucky stars for Mary ,  every day! there are not enough lifetimes for me to ever be able to produce that much hardanger.  Mary saved me from hours,days , years, of pricking my fingers and cursing at cloth.I did about two inches once.
That's it

.  HERE- you can see why...

Dennis bought the flamingos to sneak over onto the neighbors lawn in the secret dark of night , a joke but I rather like them tacky as they are! So I will use them for the shower and then he can sneak them over to Steve's yard. 

I had to go to the dollar store to get a baby for the stork flamingo and I am not sure anyone will appreciate the decor as much as I... They are all tasteful and minimal...so I am pushing it a bit.  Wacky tacky old dollar store granny. (sorry, not sorry)

I blew up so many balloons- seven popped loudly- I hit the deck! Five had holes in them from manufacturer defect, and three or four went scrotum. But all in all, I think there are enough. I can not do one more blow job, don't ask me to,I am done.

I had purchased herb starts for one of the deck pots but will use those as well for the shower, they make a nice basket full of fresh smelling goodness. We are all about wholesome, don't you know...

The girls will be here at 9:00 to finish doing their whatevers, icing a cake...cutting fruit and making salad- that sort of last minute thing. It is raining, of course, and tomorrow does not look much better from what the weather lord predicts.  

The poppies have melted, petunias threatening to die...rain is good in pints not gallons. supposed to be a cursed hot dry summer - we will look back on these cool rainy days with yearnings.  Never happy?

Maybe that is our lot living on this planet- there is no such thing as consistent perfection, and that, I suppose , holds our interest. 

I have the chairs set up like a damned intervention! But that is how it goes- ring around the big dog rug. It would be hilarious to prank some one- "you think that you are here for Cara's baby shower but ...we have a van waiting right outside to take you to a rehab facility in Loma Linda, where you will be staying for the next three months." That show , so predictable, and short lived. Too many failures.