Weekend in Review

Hey friends! Happy Monday!!

Harry, Hermione, and Dumbledore are now sitting on our front porch. Harry's glasses should arrive today. I'll post a picture of them with their floating candles later.

On Thursday, I went to see Dr. Mullins. She is my wonderful ophthalmologist who took care of me when I had the bad double sideways vision event back in 2022 plus she performed cataract surgery on my left eye back in February. I went for my 6 months post surgery appointment and I am seeing 20/20 in that eye and everything looks good. There is a small cataract in my other eye and she said I'll know when to call her. Hopefully, I can make it to next year's yearly check-up.

My eyes are green and I asked them to use light dilation, if possible, because my eyes stay dilated so long. I had to dim my office lights for the afternoon. My pupils were huge - there was barely any green showing around the edge. 

We had tickets to "The Butler Did It" on Thursday night at our local community theater. I thought it was a cute play. There was a man sitting behind us who was on oxygen. First of all, let me say that I'm glad he could get out and attend the play. The problem was that Mark is hard of hearing and the guy's oxygen tank made those whoosh and beeping sounds throughout the play. Guess who didn't like the play? Mark . . .because he missed all of the humor. . .because he couldn't hear over the whoosh.

I showed y'all my old headshot, but did I ever show you my new one?

Friday night we headed to our supper club. We've been together since 2004. Kim served chicken made with an Ina Garten recipe and it was tasty. She also served wild rice. I took a huge spinach salad with mandarin oranges and feta cheese and a balsamic dressing. Terrie brought Spanish Meatballs as an appetizer. Laura made rum cake and served it with rum raisin ice cream. Mark said it was wonderful. He ate two servings. That man loves sweets.

Saturday morning I headed to WW to weigh in. I finally crossed the 20 pound point - yay me! If you add that to what I lost starting back in 2017, I'm down over 60 pounds - almost 65, I think. I had some errands to run and did all of those -- including purchasing pumpkins for the front porch. I studied on and off all day for my final which I will take before going to work today. I think it goes live at 6:00 a.m. I cooked burgers for dinner and we watched a couple of episodes of Eli Stone.

Sunday morning dawned bright and early and I headed to work. It was a low attendance Sunday because the schools around here are on fall break. Our pastor preached a wonderful sermon yesterday. You can scroll forward until you get to the sermon at 30:24.

We went to Mark's twin brother's house for lunch. They cooked a roast and asparagus and Mark's sister made a green salad and fruit salad. After lunch, we spent some time dividing up some of Mark's mother's silver. I picked out some beautiful silver trays and two little nut dishes of varying heights, along with a few other various pieces. I need to take a picture of this one piece that Mark brought home -- he was playing with it like a toy and sees himself serving something out of the piece the next time we have guests for dinner.

We headed home for a quick Sunday afternoon nap and then we moved the floating candles to the front porch and set up the trio of skeletons. I made a ginormous fruit salad. The fruit was all from Costco and it was amazing.

We headed to our neighborhoood supper club at 6:30, with our giant fruit bowl. I wish I had taken a picture of it. We enjoyed hanging out with four other couples for the evening. Sherri brought the appetizer - it was spinach dip from Publix which she had heated. Then she served it with several types of chips and crackers. For dinner, the hostess made Tuscan chicken - chicken with spinach and sun-dried tomatoes. It was good. One couple brought squash casserole - it was delicious. Another couple brought a beautiful green salad - yummy! I provided the gorgeous fruit salad. The fifth couple brought an apple tart and vanilla ice cream. It was so pretty.

That's our weekend in a nutshell!

What did you do this weekend?