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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Sunday Salon -- Happy Mother's Day!

Weather in Eugene: Overcast but warm and muggy.

Happy Mother's Day: We drove down to Eugene to be with Mom for Mother's Day this year. Two of my siblings are on world trips and my youngest sister is nearing the end of her school year and is up to her eyeballs in end-of-year tasks, so we represented the family. Don and I made it to Eugene yesterday in time to attend a program and meal at her church about a mission project in Cambodia. It was heartwarming to hear the stories of how successful the children are who stick it out. After the church service this morning Don and I made a lunch for Mom and one of her friends. Menu: pork tenderloin, risotto, fresh green beans, homemade applesauce, and a tuxedo cake, not homemade.

Views from Mom's yard, inside and out.


Azaleas and rhododendrons: A few weeks ago I was all about flowering trees now I am all about flowering shrubs. Mom's yard is so lovely this time of year. She must have at least 20 of the flowering shrubs in her yard (and one blooming rose). I took the photos in her yard this morning before church. It is a little like heaven on earth sitting in her living room looking out the window. It is a very pretty time in the Pacific NW.

Books:
  • Don and I are listening together to Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon, a fictional story about an actual midwife, Martha Ballard, who lived in what is now Maine in the late 1700s. So well done. Audio. 53% complete.
  • I am alternating reading and listening to Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, a Pulitzer Prize winner from 1919. It is my 12-page-a-day book but I'm having a hard time judging that page assignment on my e-reader. I'm nearing the midway point.
  • Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver is the last of all the poetry books I checked out last month. 88% complete.
  • I finished What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery this past week. Now I want to raise chickens! And Thirst by Mary Oliver. This poetry collection is much more religious than her other books.
  • Up next: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden.
Have a lovely week!

-Anne
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