Not a good photo of my grandmother and mom in front of my grandmother's house.
Today is my grandmother's birthday. She was born March 18, 1888 in Germany.

i think my grandmother always had an apron on
at least that's what i remember
the last time i saw her was when i was 18
and had no direction
she said i could live with her
and keep whatever money i earned
you see when my mother was young and working
all the kids gave their paycheck to her

Mom asked me to stop and buy some flowers. My mother always has bought flowers on her mother's birthday.

Louise Lindermann Pflumio

Dinner...

salad

chicken
brown rice with onions, tomatoes and olives

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.  We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.  Dale Carnegie

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Cleaning day at the shop...

on one of my aunt's visits from France
she commented how
Florida is only one color
green

 Dinner...

salad
i even put Gary's leftover salmon in my salad
😮

rare London boil

Saturday

Photo from Stacy...Connor's last game of the season...

I dropped off some unwanted clothes from mom and Dom at Goodwill the other day and while browsing there, I found and bought this cute little mini food processor $5.99...

Works great...

Dinner...

salmon with whole grain mustard and walnut topping
roasted cubed potatoes
salad

made a batch of my
chocolate, coconut and almond
candy

Quote from the Atomic Habits by James Clear...

The costs of your good habits are in the present.  The costs of your bad habits are in the future.

TGIF

Is there anything better than vine ripe tomatoes?

Still working on my pizza skills...

used what i had on hand
ground beef, onions, spinach, artichoke hearts, tomato sauce
 cheese and pepperoni for the boys
no cheese or pepperoni for me

Blueberries are flowering...

did you know
growing up as an army brat
the slang for french people was
frogs

hello

This post is from one of my favorite bloggers Seth Godin...which you can find HERE

You Made My Day

"When your day gets made, how long does it last? A made day–is that different from a normal day?

Perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a made hour or, if we’re going to be quite truthful, a made minute.

When something bad happens, we can revisit the humiliation and anxiety for months. But the good stuff, if we don’t work at it, can pass right by.

We get what we remember, and we remember what we focus on."

Elvin sitting down on the job...

Library haul...

this is what happens when
you order books late at night
at least it wasn't an amazon order
😀

 I love curly parsley way more than that Italian parsley...

Figs on the fig tree...

In the judgment chapter of the Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen I found this paragraph interesting...

     Judgment does not only take the form of criticism.  Approval is also a form of judgment.  When we approve of people, we sit in judgment of them as surely as when we criticize them.  Positive judgment of them as surely as when we criticize them.  Positive judgment hurts less acutely than criticism, but it is judgment all the same and we are harmed by it in far more subtle ways.  To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary.  Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving.  It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value.  This is as true of the approval we give ourselves as it is of the approval we offer others.  Approval can’t be trusted.  It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been.  It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy.  Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.

Wednesday

In case anyone wondered how much baby Chase has grown...here he is.

Elvin's son is
so sweet and
full of smiles
loves being at the shop

he'll be bigger than me soon😬

Team work...

JT took this photo

i took this photo at the same time
angles make a difference

Dinner...

salad

pork strips
broccoli (see the yellow seeds on the broccoli...should have picked sooner)
brown rice with onions, peas, zucchini and
Parmesan cheese 

So...I asked Devin...What you doing?  He said working on Stanford and Son's truck...
I said what...your to young to know that!

It's a 1951 Ford F-1 truck
the year Gary and the twin were born

What's even funnier is this truck is for sale...$12,000 and this beauty is yours!

Might need a little bit of work...

Its's the way we opened doors back in the day...

JT holding a windshield wiper motor and transmission assembly.

i read somewhere about using other people's material
without their permission
so since i now feel guilty
i will try to post where i screen shoot any material
that isn't mine
too late for the old stuff
😬